Libianca Kenzonkinboum Fonji is a Cameroonian singer and composer best known by her first name, Libianca. In a January 2023 interview with Rolling Stone, she described how her love of music first took hold, the sources of her inspiration, and the gradual development of her role as a mixing engineer for her songs:

I started off just singing and just loving to sing. I remember my first babysitter. I was around five or six or something in Cameroon. She would be walking around and cleaning the house, and she would start singing. I just felt something whenever she sang, and I was like, “I want to be able to feel that way on my own.” So I just sang from there. Then I started writing songs around the ages of 10, 11. By the time I moved over to America, I kept writing songs, kept singing. I got involved in choir, pretty much anything music-related in school. Then I signed a local record deal when I was 15 or 16 for about a year. That was cool. I learned a lot about engineering, recording, and that’s when I decided that I wanted to be able to mix my own vocals. I want to be able to engineer myself in a studio and all that good stuff. And so I learned how to do it as the years went by.

LiBianca’s parents were extremely encouraging of her ambitions; she claimed that her father paid for all of her singing and guitar lessons. She took a leap of faith when she performed a rendition of SZA’s December 2020 song, “Good Days” on season 21 of The Voice. This piqued the interest of Blake Shelton, who coached her for about a year. Since 2021, Libianca has dedicated most of her musical career to performing covers of well-known songs by artists such as Billie Eilish on “Everything I Wanted” and Doja Cat on “Woman,” among many others.

She later on, made her debut with the song “People” on December 5, 2022; a song that dives into the concept of dealing with heartbreak, sorrow, and loneliness while attempting to distract oneself from one’s inner pain through the usage of alcohol, which she stated was inspired by a real-life experience.