She broke out of the Greenwich Village music scene boom of the late 1970s, along with other artists such as Steve Forbert, The Roches, and Willie Nile.

[1] Although she remains relatively unknown in the United States, except for a loyal cult of fans, she managed to gain popularity in Europe and Canada, mostly due to the use of television as a promotional tool in these markets.

Her records did well in the charts in Canada, but her greatest success was in Germany, where a live album, Mas Hysteria, was released by Phonogram.

On May 6 of 2019, Mas graduated summa cum laude from ASU,[10] where she was also chosen outstanding student and selected to represent her degree plan at the Edson College of Nursing and Healthcare convocation on May 7 of the same year.

[13] In a May 30, 2019 article in Billboard Magazine, New York radio legend Jim Kerr, formerly of WPLJ, singled out Mas when recalling his many years at the now defunct rock station.