Scialfa grew up in Deal, New Jersey on the Jersey Shore. She was the middle child of Joseph Scialfa and Patricia (née Morris) Scialfa. Her father was of Sicilian ancestry and her mother is from Belfast, Northern Ireland. … See more

While in college at the University of Miami and later at New York University, Scialfa began recording original music for other artists. However, none of her songs were recorded.
After her co… See more

Scialfa first met Bruce Springsteen in the early 1980s at The Stone Pony, a music venue and bar in Asbury Park, New Jersey, where Springsteen and his band regularly played. In 1984, Scialfa postponed recording h… See more