Tessa Rain is best known in New Zealand and internationally for her collaboration with Fly My Pretties. She wrote the songs Carrier Pigeon and Smoke Me from the gold selling album The Return of Fly My Pretties, and Mauri from the Fly My Pretties - A Story album, which reached number one in the New Zealand charts.
Rain is also known for her long history of collaboration with Age Pryor; together they released the album Homerecordings. The song Funny Shadow from this album was written by Rain and was later featured in the Miramax film Eagle vs Shark.