Born and raised in South London, Amplify Dot was never far from a microphone. From the age of four, a young Amplify Dot would listen to the sounds of Salt n Pepa, Bob Marley and Jimi Hendrix from her uncle's Sony Walkman and the tones of The Carpenters and Barrington Levy from her dad's reel-to-reel. Before long, the musically influenced school girl was recording her first track, an answering machine rap for her parent's house phone.