She won a scholarship to the Trinity College of Music, where she studied singing and the piano.
She began her career with the George Mitchell Singers and made her first radio broadcast as a child in Round the Horne.
With her brother Vernon she appeared frequently on BBC TV's The Good Old Days.
[2] She performed in Wiener Blut, Show Boat,[3] Les cloches de Corneville, and La rondine, with Lorin Maazel in 1981.
She retired from professional singing in 1992, after 42 years, and runs an unrelated business with her husband Richard.