ATLANTA — Ink is keen on building a “sound you can trust.”

That was her thesis while busking throughout the streets of Atlanta in the early 2010s, with her cowboy hat and boots in tow. The Columbus-raised singer and songwriter would spend hours on the campus of Clark Atlanta University (where she studied mass communications and film), on the MARTA train, in Little Five Points, outside of Lenox Square Mall — and anywhere else — performing for anyone who was willing to listen.

The hard work paid off. She later moved to Los Angeles and penned songs for singers Monica and Tamar Braxton (one of her first songs was the latter’s 2015 track, “Catfish”).

Today, Ink (born Atia Boggs), splits her time between Nashville, Tenn., and Miami. She’s had a stellar songwriting run over the past few years,

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