You Know Her From the "Lemon" Video, but Here's Everything Else You Should Know About Mette Towley

Growing up in Alexandria, MN, with a white father and a black mother, Mette knew others identified her as African American, and she felt pressure from them to identify with just one part of herself. "My mother always told me I might be more comfortable as African American," she said back in 2011, when she was just a sophomore in college. "It was hard to say I was mixed because I was so different."