[2][3][4] Leo worked at the Nestle's factory, which manufactured coffee and powdered milk; Teresa was a radio announcer, secretary, actress, pianist and singer.

When she returned in 1991 she took up her first music teaching position at John Pujajankgka Pirin school in Mulan, Western Australia in the Great Sandy Desert.

She worked with her brother Damian Howard in the 1990s, performing live and recording with him on his solo albums while raising her two children and running a Bed and Breakfast, Hanley House with her (now ex-husband) James Gubbins in Port Fairy.

[9] In the studio she was joined by Patricia Clarke and Shane Howard on backing vocals and Archie Cuthbertson on drums and percussion for the first recording of the Gunditjmara lullaby, "Vulla Vunnah Nah".

[10] Produced by Steve Cooney the album featured Tim O'Brien, Mary Black, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Kevin Bourke and Laiose Kelly.

[10] Howard wrote it based on a poem, "A Poison Tree, by William Blake;[11] it appeared on a various artists compilation album, A Woman's Heart – A Decade On (2002).

During her study as a member of the cohort, she performed with Canadian Indian elders, Kutcha Edwards, Robbie Bundle, Monica Weightman and Dr. Herb Patten at the WICPE Conference at Rod Laver Arena in 2009 and recorded the album Gulpa Ngawal, engineered by Anthony Norris at RMIT studios in Melbourne, produced by Dr. Laura Brearley, Monash University and RMIT.

It's an organic reflection of the journey of two sisters in song from their rural roots to national fame and back to where it all started – country-folk music stripped down to bare essentials.

Pure vocals, perfect enunciation, and impeccable harmonies ensure these homespun homilies and modern messages are massaged as they meet on high at the pass.

"[4] In October 2017 she released the album, Everything Reminds Me, and was joined in the studio by Issac Barter, Lee Morgan on guitar, Justin Olsson on drums, Matiss Schubert on mandolin and fiddle, and Richard Tankard on keyboards.