Born to a French father and Indian mother, Pallot grew up in London. Nerina released her debut album, 'Dear Frustrated Superstar', in 2001 with Polydor, which included 2 singles, "Patience" and "Alien". "If I Know You" was a third single for which a video was filmed, but has never been publicly shown. Interestingly her album was withdrawn before an arena tour with Bryan Adams, and was never re-issued. Palllot was subsequently she was dropped from the label due to a message she wrote on the Tipsheet message board relating to the actions of her A&R man around remixes of "Photograph", a track that was intended to be on the re-issued Dear Frustrated Superstar. Nerina returned to the limelight again in 2005. She released her second album, 'Fires', on her own independent label, Idaho. Chrysalis Music Publishing stood by her through her Polydor incidnet and provided her with a development deal for her second album. Having written all of her own songs, Chrysalis initially provided Pallot with £50,000 to make the album. That proved insufficient for Pallot's needs, and resulted in her remortgaging her house to pay for the rest of the album and for living expenses. After releasing 2 singles off of 'Fires', 14th Floor Recordings signed Nerina and re-issued 'Fires' which went on to have great success. Nerina went on to tour with the likes of James Blunt and Sheryl Crow.