Shelby began a love for songwriting while studying music at Humber College. For over a decade, she has been performing her original songs at local venues in and around Toronto. She has released two albums under the name Shelby Lamb receiving critical acclaim and airplay on CBC, campus and community radio nationwide. She continues to write songs and perform locally. She has taken an interest in helping others to express their creativity through lyric writing and song structure, matching lyrics with music, methods to build on ideas, and techniques for creating imaginative metaphors and similes.