Her compositions and arrangements helped establish several artists, including Anneli van Rooyen, Karin Hougaard and Jan de Wet.

In 1962, at the age of four, she already accompanied her nursery school 's choir singing Die Oukraalliedjie without her mother knowing about it.

She studied music at the PU for CHO and started piano lessons with prof. Pieter de Villiers.

From 1986 she worked for the next 25 years as pianist and co-artist with Jannie du Toit on stage, in studios and as co-writer of songs.

Their most popular stage productions include Blik en Snaar (1986), Shadows on the Wall (1992), De Kleine Man (1994), Musiek en Repliek – Class of '79 (with Lucas Maree, 1999), De Kleine Man Spoorloos (2000 ), Night Office (together with several other artists under the direction of Sandra Prinsloo and with a text by PG du Plessis, 2004), Jannie en die Tannie (2006), Hartsnaar(with her son, Douw Steyn, Mariëtte Galjaard and Werner Spies, 2008), Houtkruis (with various artists, 2008) and Brel in Brooklyn (with Laurika Rauch and Sergio Zampolli, 2010).