A native of Columbia, South Carolina, Missy Crider began her journey to the arts at an early age. She took a job as a singer and violinist in musical stage shows, when she was awarded Young Entertainer of the Year by the OMA Stage Awards Association in 1986 in Branson, Missouri. A trip to record a Christmas album in Nashville was stopped short due to a car accident, and the album was never recorded. Although she has yet to sing on country music stages again, she performed and produced two songs, "Endless Sleep" and "Can't Show the World", that appear on the soundtracks in two of her films: "Girls in Prison" (1994) and "A Boy Called Hate" (1995).
凯瑟琳·海格尔出生于美国华盛顿特区,父亲是会计师,兄弟姐妹一共五人,后来举家搬到新迦南,在那儿她渡过了童年的大部分时光。她是家里最小的孩子,有两个哥哥,一个哥哥因为遭遇车祸而脑死亡,这给她很大的打击。