Fontana was born in Newington, Connecticut. She moved to New York City when she was 18, after spending seven years commuting to Manhattan, where she would audition for singing roles and work as a demo singer, recording songs for writers to pitch to record companies.
Career
Fontana co-wrote the 2011 Justin Bieber song "Home This Christmas" with Nasri Atweh. It was featured on Bieber's Christmas albumUnder the Mistletoe. Also in 2011, Fontana co-wrote the original theme song to Shelter Me, a PBS show, hosted by Katherine Heigl that celebrated the human-animal bond. The series focuses on shelter animal success stories. The theme song, "Love is Everything," was written by Austin Bis, Fontana and Daniel Walker, and performed by Fontana. In 2014, she co-wrote the song "Hit Me Up" with Lars Hustoft and Jon Asher for Eurovision Song Contest competitor Charlie Tepstad of Norway. On April 5, 2013, the song "Nothing Really Matters" by tyDi, which Fontana was featured on and was co-written by STIX of Fly Panda, debuted on Billboard. It reached number 39 on the BillboardDance Club Songs chart in 2013. Also in 2013, Fontana worked as a songwriting consultant on Norway's Idoltelevision show, co-writing Astrid S's single "Shattered", which went Gold in Scandinavia. In 2015, Fontana, alongside tyDi, topped the Mediabase dance charts at Number 1 with their EDM track "Redefined", co-written by Priya J. Geddis. The song was Sirius XM's top song of 2015 on its BPM station. She also collaborated with tyDi and Col3man on the 2017 single "That's How You Know". In 2016, Britney Spears released the Japanese edition of her album Glory, including a song written by Fontana with Jon Asher and produced by DJ Mustard, titled "Mood Ring". Fontana had three Top 10 singles stemming from the Korean Mnet TV show Produce 101: "Crush", "Yum Yum" and "Fingertips". On April 1, 2016, Aaron Carter released "Fools Gold" which was co-written by Fontana, Carter, Asher, Taylor Hegelson and Michel "Lindgren" Schulz. Fontana co-wrote all five tracks on Carter's 2017 comeback EP LøVë. On October 7, 2016, Daya released Sit Still, Look Pretty, which included two songs penned by Fontana, "Words" and "All Right". She co-wrote The Chainsmokers single "Setting Fires", released in November 2016, and the BTS single "Euphoria", released in April 2018, which reached number 2 on the BillboardWorld Digital Songs chart. She and her husband Michel "Lindgren" Schulz co-wrote the 2019 BTS single "Boy with Luv" featuring Halsey, which was the fastest YouTube video to reach 100 million views. Fontana said in an interview that the duo wrote the song in English, and then some of the members of BTS reinterpreted the lyrics into Korean. She also sang backing vocals on the song, and joined the band for their performance on Saturday Night Live. Fontana is managed by Justin Garza.
