Modern Family child star Frances Anderson is detailing her decision to go by a different name professionally. “Frances is actually part of my legal name. It’s my middle name, and it’s after my mom’s old family friend,

Though she spent much of her childhood acting, Anderson-Emmons says her relationship with music started at a young age. When she was 5 or 6, her mom put her in piano lessons and she hated it. However, she recalls loving "a lot of older music."