[4] Anderson was a soprano singer and voice teacher[5] based in Chicago,[6] where she was a leader of the Choral Study Club, a soloist at Quinn Chapel, and gave musicales at her home on Champlain Avenue.

[7] She was a soloist with the Louisville Choral Society and the Fisk Glee Club in 1909,[3][8] and in 1911, she made her own costume to sing the leading role in a cantata about Queen Esther.

[9] She sang with Emma Azalia Hackley and blind singer and pianist Mary Fitzhugh at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville in 1913.

[10] In 1916 she conducted a 40-voice women's choir in a performance of Henry Smart's King Rene's Daughter, with Florence Cole Talbert among the soloists.

[20] In 1929, she (and Dent, Fowler, and Camille Nickerson) taught at a summer teachers' institute in Fort Worth, sponsored by the Texas Association of Negro Musicians.