Elisabeth "Bit" Rawn

When someone pulls their first memory from the back of their mind, there are the lucky little children that can recall building a playhouse or playing a game. Then there are the children like Bit Rawn whose earliest memory was witnessing her parents leave the courthouse after a bitter custody battle. Her father went one way and her mother another. When she was scooped up by the nanny, she knew it was time to go home and she knew her father wasn't joining them. When her parents divorced, Bit was too young to know what it meant. She knew that one day she had a daddy and the next, he was only allowed to visit with an old lady with him and it could only be for a few hours at a time.

As she got older, Bit eventually learned what all of it meant and she even learned why it happened. Growing up a rock star's daughter didn't seem to be as much fun as everyone at school thought it was because she was never allowed to see her father outside of television appearances and the occasional supervised visitation. In many ways, it taught Bit a lot about the importance of keeping someone close as much as was humanly possible. As a result, she never strayed far from her tight circle of friends at school and even added her older brother to her list of best friends. For this reason, she was never one of the girls in school that was ever considered popular and wasn't expected to win any of the senior superlatives.

Almost all of Bit's friends growing up were boys. She was never interested in things like the pageants her Playboy bunny mother had her compete in. Instead, she liked mud and music much more. Even from a very young age, Bit participated in choirs and took advantage of every opportunity to sing. When Bit was fifteen, she found out that three of her friends were meeting after school to get a band together. As a very interested and critical person, she asked to watch and the boys agreed. At that day's practice, she interrupted the boys so many times that she was told that she should just sing the song if she knew so much. Once she opened her mouth, the boys knew what a happy accident had happened.

When Bit was sixteen, a member of her band asked her if she would accompany him to church and then to the nearby diner for lunch. He'd really only been looking for a date, but Bit was completely taken over by the atmosphere of the church. From that day forward, she has shared a relationship with God that she has kept private excluding the times when her music takes her into that part of her mind. Around this time, Bit's father started getting clean. This, to her, was eye-opening and bonded the ideas of her father's new sober lifestyle and her love of God together.

Two months before Bit was to graduate high school, her band was picked up by Virgin Records. While the band had been together for three years before that point, they struggled with writing enough material for a full album and it took more than a full year for Swan Song to release their self-titled debut album. Since that point, however, the band has met success in the revival of the circles her father's band frequented in the 1980s. The dark and brooding youth has kept Swan Song in the Billboard Top 100 since the album's release in late 2008.