The daughter of a cavalry captain of the Royal court, Bengt Edvard Eckerman, and the journalist Catharina Ahlgren, she was hired as a singer and an actor at the Royal Swedish Opera in Bollhuset in Stockholm in 1774, and were gicen singing lessons.
The daughter of a cavalry captain of the Royal court, Bengt Edvard Eckerman, and the journalist Catharina Ahlgren, she was in the custody of her father after her parents divorce and was described as more or less and orphant. She was hired as a singer and an actor at the Royal Swedish Opera in Bollhuset in Stockholm in 1774, and were gicen singing lessons.