She signed with Polydor in the late 1980s, recorded her self-titled album in 1991,[2] and later worked in Broadway theatre and on television.
[3] Initially a gospel singer,[2] she recorded commercial secular music in the late 1970s, first releasing her debut single "Looking Over My Shoulder" in 1978,[4] before being a member of the short-lived quintet Eighties Ladies.
[5] In 1991, Hicks released her self-titled debut album and scored her biggest chart hit with the single "Never Been in Love Before", written and produced by Jimmy Scott.
On July 16, 1996, she performed as a background singer for Michael Jackson in a free concert at the Jerudong Park Amphitheatre in Bandar Seri Begawan.
[3] On television, she played T'Pel, the wife of Tuvok, in two episodes of Star Trek: Voyager, and appeared in several other recurring roles in other series.