Country from Nashville TN Violet Delancey grew up in Southern California, close to the clubs and recording studios where artists like Gram Parsons carved out their own brand of country music during the 1970s. Even so, it took a move to London ? where Delancey studied Mythology as a graduate student, then switched gears by launching into a songwriting career ? for her to fall head-over-heels in love with the music of her home country.