Tristan Prettyman (born May 23, 1982) is a singer-songwriter and former Roxy model, she was born and raised in the city of Del Mar located in San Diego County, California
Taking advantage of the city's proximity to the sea, she started surfing at 12 years, she competed in the National Scholastic Surfing Association (NSSA) High School Division and earned fifth place in the state title while in middle school
At 15, she got a cassette of Ani DiFranco in 1993 Puddle Dive by her half-brother's friend, she played the disc all the time and still have great sentimental value for her, it serves as a reminder of when her musical ambitions started to blossom
Inspired by DiFranco music and is in part because her character is a self-described "Nosy Kid Shan came into her föräldrars room and started playing around with his dad's old acoustic guitar, although her parents were initially angry at her to "take" her father's guitar ended up supporting her interest in music
She began playing for friends at their homes and they encouraged her to start writing his own material One night while performing for some friends, an employee of production company The Moonshine Conspiracy run by surf filmmaker Taylor Steele and professional surfer Chris Malloy heard her and asked Tristan to appear in the film company is working with the right time for Tristan's Shelter song nothing was elected on the soundtrack
Prettyman began playing in clubs and bars throughout San Diego County before being invited to join fellow San Diegoan and fUTURE boyfriend Jason Mraz on his national tour
Prettyman spent the winter of 2004 in New York working with producer Josh Deutsch who had worked with Mraz and Lenny Kravitz
Prettyman is a half sister to Cody McClintock an independent film producer
She is signed to Virgin Records and put out her first major label album Twentythree August 2, 2005 Tristan credits her half-brother with a lot of influence on their thinking and the title of her debut album pays partial homage to the "23 enigma" A perceptual concept that refers to the abnormally high incidence of number 23 in the daily life described in the book Cosmic Trigger by Robert Anton Wilson from friend and fellow writer William S. Burroughs
Twentythree reached 24on Billboard's Top Heatseekers Chart
In 2008, Tristan released his second album entitled Hello
