[2] Sylvester was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and sang and danced from the age of three.
In the early 1920s she appeared at the Paradise Cafe in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
In 1923 she recorded eleven sides with the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra.
In 1931 she performed with the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra at the Howard Theater, in Washington, D.C., for broadcast on WSJV radio.
By the early 1950s Sylvester worked primarily outside music; she tended bar at the Celebrity Club in New York City and occasionally sang there with the Buddy Tate Band.