Starting in folk music with a medium chart hit Garden Of Ursh (1971)[2] in the late 1960s, she switched to jazz in the mid-1970s with the successful bebop vocal group, Bug Alley.
[3] She played lead roles in the musical theatre productions Mata Hari and Angel, written by David Rimmer and Edward Knoll, in the early 1980s.
[6] Young established her own independent record label in 1991, Les Disques URSH.
Since then, she has released nine records featuring combinations of artists from different musical backgrounds and traditions.
Young composed the musical soundtracks for Joseph’s Daughter, a film by Ilana Schwartz, The Road from Kampuchea by Anne Henderson and for Revoir Julie by Jeanne Crepeau.