By the 1910s, she led musical programs at the St. Mark AME Church and sometimes performed with her husband, Albert Smack.
Around the same time, Sellers was part of the Wisconsin delegation to the "50 Year Jubilee celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation in Chicago".
[1] According to 2020 research by Henry Sapoznik,[3] she was the only African American woman vocalist performing in the "golden age" of European Jewish liturgical chazzanus vocal music, and only the second female cantor ever recorded.
[4] A 1925 piece in Pittsburgh's Jewish Criterion newspaper said that "Goldye sings in six languages—Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian, German, French and English."
[2] However, by 2022, a rematriation project to fund a headstone for Steiner was headed by Shahanna McKinney-Baldon, director of the Edot Midwest Regional Jewish Diversity and Racial Justice Collaborative.