From 2000 to 2005 she was the nude roller skating singer, KK Juggy, for rock band Machine Gun Fellatio and then until 2008 the Ring Mistress with Circus Oz.

During her solo career, Christa has regularly sung jazz and blues, created and starred in numerous musical theatre and cabaret shows, performed on television and appeared in films.

She continued to perform with Dick at various times throughout her career, appearing at The Famous Spiegeltent (Sydney Opera House) in 2008, with "the duo's repertoire guided by the family's favourite songbirds, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday and Lee Wiley.

"[8] Christa opened and sang with various international blues artists when they were in Sydney, such as Brownie McGhee, The Swamp Boogie Queen Katie Webster and Champion Jack Dupree.

[12] Beer Drinking Woman[13] (2003) "Known for her raunchy stage presence and sultry singing style, Christa takes audiences on a journey through song – from the elegant first sip of the Speakeasy Siren to the despair and pain of the Dive Bar Diva with hair-of-the-dog blues.

"[16] Beer Drinking Woman was performed around Australia in venues including the Sydney Opera House, Adelaide Cabaret Festival and the Brisbane Powerhouse.

As well as her own songs, Temptation's repertoire included compositions by Tom Waits, Cole Porter, The Velvet Underground,[18] Beasts Of Bourbon, Marilyn Manson and Grace Jones.

[19] Neurotic Ladyland (2013) "An introduction to a stylish menu of extraordinary female characters ranging from rock star personas to Berlin Cabaret artistes.

"[21] Oz Rockin’ the Ladies Lounge[22] (2015) "Christa Hughes (aka KK Juggy from Machine Gun Fellatio) brings her trademark exuberantly vulgar theatricality to the great Australian songbook.

[28][29][30] The band toured the country extensively, with Christa's burlesque meets the Marx Brothers inspired live performances gaining notoriety.

Composed by Jonathan Mills, libretto by Dorothy Porter and conducted by Richard Gill[33] The Eternity Man is the "story of Arthur Stace, the quintessentially Sydney eccentric who, with his coloured chalk, scrawled the word 'Eternity' on walls, footpaths and railway platforms for 35 years.

How to Kill Your Husband (and other handy household hints) (2011) Christa was cast at sex therapist, Bianca, in Victorian Opera’s adaptation of Kathy Lette’s book of the same name.

Hidden Sydney – The Golden Mile (2016 to 2018) Christa played the role of Judy Garland in an immersive theatre performance, starting in a Kings Cross laneway and unfolding through the many rooms of the building that was once the infamous Nevada brothel.

[36] Described as "An original song cycle about The Million Dollar Mermaid Annette Kellerman - Australian champion swimmer, inventor of the modern one-piece bathing suit and star of underwater ballet, Hollywood films and international vaudeville.

It was a "film about a Japanese man who arrives in Hong Kong and plants himself at a local gay bar inhabited by a cast of eccentric characters.

Spanning four decades, Arthur Stace's nocturnal mission to chalk his timeless message on the city streets somehow captured its changing soul, and to this day his journey remains its quintessential urban legend.

It "takes us on an intimate, whirlwind journey through the ages, revealing the complexities and duality within this prodigiously talented, eccentric maverick clan who've pursued their passions on the world stage"[45] and "gave the family's history in jazz, journalism and cabaret a wider audience.