Born in Harlem, she is a graduate of Brandeis University and studied singing in New York City with Anna Hamlin and Otto Guth.
[2] In 1965 she won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and a grant from the John Hay Whitney Foundation.
[4] In 1970 she sang the role of Palmyra in the United States premiere of Frederick Delius' Koanga with the Opera Society of Washington.
[7] Finding it difficult to get work with opera companies in the United States, Lindsey went to Europe where she portrayed such roles as Countess Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro, the Female Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Mimì in La bohème, and the title heroine in Aida among other parts during the 1970s.
[8] She recorded the role of Bess to the Porgy of Benjamin Matthews with the Slovak Philharmonic in 1980, an album of selections from the opera only.