[1] She earned her first resident post thanks to the help of the Trinidadian drummer Happy Blake, at his Rendezvous des Artistes, and it was there that she met musicians from Ken "Snakehips" Johnson's new band, made up solely of black musicians, and with which her brother-in-law was the guitarist.
After the then-pianist Yorke de Souza moved to Australia, she took over in Mayfair's Florida Club, and remained there until her first child was born.
[1][2] Her husband had to serve abroad during the war, and she worked with musicians including the bandleader Eric Winstone as well as the trumpeters Johnny Claes and Leslie Hutchinson.
[2] She later joined the West Indian Swing Stars, with Bertie King on saxophone, Coleridge Goode on bass, and Lauderic Caton on guitar.
[2] She later worked with Frank's Spirits of Rhythm, with Jimmy Skidmore on tenor saxophone.