[5][6][7][8] She is the elder sister to Henry Boimah Fahnbulleh, Jr., a former Foreign Minister and National Security Adviser.
[5][9] Her niece is British Labour and Co-operative Member of Parliament Miatta Fahnbulleh, with whom she shares a name.
[11] She wanted to be a singer, but social obstacles in her home country against women performing in public venues led her to seek opportunities elsewhere.
[13] She also performed, singing at the Apollo Theater in Harlem and working with the Negro Ensemble Company of New York.
In 1973, she visited Liberia to sing at the inauguration of President William R. Tolbert Jr.,[13] and moved back altogether in 1974.