She also collaborated with Matt Berninger from The National on 'Hush', the theme song for Turn. Late in 2013, Williams collaborated with Chris Cornell on the song 'Misery Chain', which they performed on Late Show with David Letterman. The duo was officially dissolved in August 2014 and in March 2015, Williams said her last conversation with White was after their Roundhouse show in London in November 2012. The duo announced an indefinite hiatus in November 2012, prior to the release of their 2013 self-titled album. White and Williams won four Grammy Awards as The Civil Wars.

The album was widely praised by critics and went on to sell more than 650,000 copies in the U.S. They formed the folk rock duo The Civil Wars in 2009 and released their breakthrough album, Barton Hollow, in 2011. In 2008, Williams attended a writing camp in Nashville, where she met John Paul White. The songs 'Charmed Life', 'Speaking a Dead Language', and 'Sunny Day', were featured on the TV show Grey's Anatomy. Williams subsequently released three EPs through Sensibility Music. That same year Oscar Mayer selected her song 'It Doesn't Get Better Than This' for a 2008 marketing campaign.

In 2006, she signed a publishing deal with Warner/Chappell music, and in 2008 she co-founded an artist development firm, Sensibility Music, as a vehicle for her career development. Williams traveled to Europe, worked briefly at Paste Magazine and then at a Nashville boutique. In 2005, she left the label to expand her musical horizons. Career īetween 20, Williams was nominated for 11 Dove Awards, and the three records she released on Reunion cumulatively sold more than 250,000 copies. Williams cites Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, Massive Attack, and Portishead as being her influences. At 17, she was signed by Reunion Records, a subsidiary of Sony/ BMG based in Brentwood, Tennessee. In addition to singing in church, Williams began writing faith-based pop songs while living in Santa Cruz. She attended Valley Christian High School in San Jose and graduated as the class valedictorian in 2001. Williams was born in West Branch, Michigan, and raised in a Christian home in Mount Hermon in Santa Cruz County, California, where her parents worked in ministry.

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