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Houghton was born on December 6, 1993 in Dallas, TX to parents Steve and Jennifer Houghton. She has always loved to sing, her parents saying that she was singing before she could talk. As a child and young teenager, Houghton gained a background in Broadway, even achieving the role of alternate for Annie in the show of the same name. She was further inspired by Kristen Chenoweth, whom she met when Chenoweth visited her school. Houghton notes Shania Twain as one of her main sources of inspiration, saying, "she was my first exposure to the fire I have inside myself to be a force in the world, through my music". At seventeen, she moved to Nashville to further her career in music.
Tiffany Crystal Houghton is an American singer-songwriter from Dallas, With millions of streams of her music, Houghton's pop hits include: "High", "Catch Me If You Can", and "Pretty Pretty". In addition, she has released two EPs, This is Not an EP and Catch Me if You Can. In 2014, she went on tour with pop group MKTO. Houghton's 2014 single, "Love Like That" was introduced by Taylor Swift and received airplay on Sirius XM, and her 2015 single, "Catch Me if You Can" reached number one on the Radio Disney charts. After a brief hiatus in 2017, Houghton continued releasing music with singles "Pretty Pretty", "Physical", and "Break Me" in late 2018 and early 2019. She has Spotify listeners from across the United States, and has received accolades from Billboard, Seventeen Magazine, J-14, Twist, and Teen Vogue. Houghton claims her success as an independent artist to be because of "Team Tiff," her army of loyal fans turned into friends both in and out of the music industry.
Houghton started posting YouTube videos in 2013, singing covers of songs by artists such as Fall Out Boy, P!NK, Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry, and more. On August 13, 2013, she released her debut single, "High", along with a '50s-themed music video for the song that has received more than one million views on YouTube. She released the single and video for "Phone Call" on December 10, 2013, and for "17 Again" on March 17, 2014. The acoustic version of her song, "Love Like That", as well as its video, was released on Valentine's Day 2014. The non-acoustic version was later released on September 11, 2014 and was later played on Sirius XM. Taylor Swift introduced the song upon its first airplay on the station. Houghton released her single, "The Best" on August 5, 2014. She then released these singles, as well as "Island" as a collection in This is Not an EP on December 1, 2014. The following day, she released her first holiday single "Blame It on the Snow", with the video released on December 3, 2014.
