Born in Wimbledon, London, the adopted daughter of a former army officer who ran a gentleman's club in Piccadilly, Anderson attended several schools before taking her O-Levels at Queen's College, where she met Miki Berenyi.

[4][5] Anderson's first band, which she joined in 1986, was the Rover Girls (which featured Chris P Mowforth and Stuart Watson, who were both later in Silverfish) as a bass player.

[4] In 1987, while Anderson was at Ealing College of Higher Education studying Humanities and Berenyi was at North London Polytechnic, they formed Lush.

Music magazines the NME and Melody Maker gleefully reported their social activities on a regular basis,[7][8] which could be said to overshadow their increasingly strong songwriting.

She had worked with Mark Van Hoen whom funnily enough, someone I knew said, was looking for collaborators so it kind of all fell into place and Sing-Sing was born.

In July 2023 it was announced that Anderson’s debut solo album Pearlies would be released on 20 October 2023 through label Sonic Cathedral.