[1] In the 1970s, Baby Dee began her musical career as a street performer, but soon decided to take work as an organist at a Catholic church in the Bronx.

Ten years later, after Dee had begun her transition into life as a woman, she left her job at the church and returned to her earlier occupation as a performance artist.

[2] She performed as an accordion-playing bilateral hermaphrodite in Coney Island, leading to a stint as the bandleader for the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus.

The album was composed and produced by Dee and featured only her, singing and playing piano on seven songs, bookended by two accordion instrumentals.

This time, though, the album contained more varied instrumentation with layered tracks of vocals, piano, accordion, and harp.

[5] In 2008, Dee released her third official studio album (and her Drag City debut), Safe Inside the Day.

"Working in what often sounds like a free-form style, the band's instrumentals punctuate Dee's piano arrangements, adding an element of unpredictability that's definitely more 'experimental' than anything she's done before".

[6] A collaboration with the Zeelandic (Dutch) singer-songwriter Broeder Dieleman lead to a full album titled Oh mijn ziel (2023), including a translation of Dee's song Morning Fire.

[7] Baby Dee has worked with Antony and the Johnsons, Andrew WK, and many other artists on the New York City scene.