Caudeiron became famous as a Creole nationalist, and is credited with leading or inspiring a roots revival in Dominican music.
Born Mabel Boyd into what was considered one of Dominica's elite families, she was known as "Cissie" from childhood.
[3] In 1957, she returned to Dominica, "with renewed energy and determination to continue her earlier work for the greater recognition of Dominican folk heritage and traditional culture", as Lennox Honychurch notes: "She opened a small school of her own and was a teacher at the Wesley High School.
Supported by the Chief Minister, Edward Le Blanc, she helped to organise the first National Day celebrations of 1965.
She founded the Kairi Artistic Troupe, the first group of its kind to be formed in Dominica, which represented the island abroad at the Commonwealth Arts festival in Britain in the summer of 1965.