Laura Lyall Ballerstedt was born in Louisville, Kentucky on January 12, 1989. A classmate, Courtney Sprigg, recently said "A rose by any other name would still smell so sweet, I believe this of Baller; nothing can change her inner beauty." Ballerstedt's first album is set to come out November 2007 and is also set to appear on the "OC" periodically in the fourth season.