Mercedes spent her early life in Baja, Mexico. She was raised by her Grandmother and is the middle child of three with an older brother and a younger sister. Mercedes joined her mother in the United States when she was eleven years of age. Her early interest included Taekwondo, the flute, dance classes and loved watching Disney movies as she loved to memorize all of the words to popular Disney princess songs. She sang them extremely well which a lot of people found surprising because she arrived to the U.S. not knowing one word of English.