• March 19, 1994
• Fletcher is Cari (pronounced like "Carrie") Fletcher, a singer-songwriter from Asbury Park, New Jersey, a city well known to Bruce Springsteen fans. "Fletcher" is her wild alter-ego of sorts, what she calls "this superhero version of me, this larger-than-life thing that's super-confident."
• She started dating the social media personality Shannon Beveridge in 2016, and a lot of Fletcher's music over the next several years deals with their rather complicated relationship. The pair had split up in 2020 but ended up living together during the COVID pandemic when a quick visit turned into months of quarantine. During this time, they worked on Fletcher's EP The S(ex) Tapes, which is all about their uncommon bond. Beveridge directed the very intimate videos that go with the songs.
• Fletcher appeared on season 1 of the American version of the reality singing competition The X Factor in 2011 as part of a group called Lakoda Rayne, assembled for the show with three other contestants. They finished in ninth place, but Fletcher kept at it, moving to Nashville and releasing an EP called Finding Fletcher independently in 2016. This led to a deal with Capitol Records, which released her song "Undrunk" as the first single on the label in 2019. It charted in various territories and racked up millions of streams, giving Fletcher a foothold in the industry that she used to climb even higher.
• Fletcher was a wild child in her 20s. "My life used to be signing boobs and tequila shots," she told Rolling Stone in 2024. That changed when she got Lyme disease in 2023, which threatened her career. After recovering, she traded in the tequila for coconut water and made her health - mental and physical - a priority.
• She studied music at New York University and was still a student when she released her first single, "War Paint," in 2015. She graduated the next year.
• She's a big Taylor Swift fan and claims that Taylor once told her she loves the lyric to "Undrunk." When Fletcher saw caught Swift's Eras Tour, she reconnected with Shannon Beveridge, who was also there, and ended up writing a song about the experience called "Eras Of Us."
• Most of the songs Fletcher writes go unreleased, but they serve a purpose for her.
  
  "As a songwriter, it's my outlet, my catharsis," she explained on the Exes and O's podcast. "It's where I go to feel things. Ninety-nine percent of those songs don't come out, but some do, and some things are unhinged and crazy. Songwriting is my lifeline, my therapy."
• During high school, Fletcher worked as a Disney princess, Hannah Montana, and Taylor Swift impersonator at kids' birthday parties. She's admitted the impersonations were of varying quality; she felt she could pull off the Taylor Swift look with the right wig, but the Hannah Montana impression was a disaster, as she looked nothing like Miley Cyrus and little kids would call her out on it.

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