在Joanna很小的时候就在父亲的理发店为顾客唱歌,用挣得的小费去杂货店买些糖果。充满天赋的joanna很快参加了当地电视台举办的选秀活动。在百老汇的巡回演出期间,她得到了许多登台演出的机会,在国家周年纪念巡回演出里她参与了106场演出,但不幸的是joanna患上了支气管炎,遗憾不能继续演出,在没有joanna的情况下,演出依然得到了观众的关注和支持。
从那开始使joanna变得更加坚强,也开始让她在音乐的道路决定继续走下去。幸运是16岁的joanna被曾捧红Christina Aguilera和许多歌星的著名音乐人Ron Fair看上,joanna过人的才能被Ron Fair所认同并立即签了和约,那时的joanna才16岁。现年21岁的她发行了自己的新专集
After winning a nationwide search for the title role in the 20th anniversary tour of the musical Annie, 12-year-old Joanna Pacitti thought her career in show business was set. However, things didn't turn out exactly as planned for the young performer, who had grown up singing in her father's barbershop in Mayfair, PA, a suburb of Philadelphia, when just three weeks before the show hit Broadway, Joanna was fired and replaced by her eight-year-old understudy. At 16, Joanna, armed with a demo of some her music, flew out to Los Angeles to meet with record executives, eventually signing to Geffen. As documented on a 2003 episode of the MTV show True Life, Joanna spent the next five years working on her debut album, This Crazy Life, which came out in 2006