She is best known as the lead singer and songwriter of the jazz rock band Air, her collaborations with Flora Purim, Hermeto Pascoal, David Matthews, Jeremy Steig, Lenny White, and her partner Tom Coppola, together with whom she released the album "Shine The Light Of Love".
Answering an advertisement in The Village Voice, Googie met Moogy Klingman from Great Neck, New York, who introduced her to John Siegler, bass player, and Mark Rosengarden, drummer.
[5][6] Performing a gig at the Village Gate, Herbie Mann heard the band and signed them to his label, Embryo Records, producing and releasing their debut self-titled album Air.
[7][8][9] While signed to Herbie Mann's Embryo label and living in New York City, Googie met Luther Vandross, David Lasley and Arnold McCuller, singing backgrounds on the Morrissey-Mullen debut album Up.
She collaborated with Hermeto Pascoal as a writer and vocalist, worked with Todd Rundgren and Bette Midler, and was a feature vocalist on recordings by Flora Purim, Hermeto Pascoal, Jeremy Steig, Lenny White and Dave Matthews cover of David Bowie’s Space Oddity, among others.