[1][2] Sheila started her musical career in 1962, after being noticed by Claude Carrère, a French record producer and songwriter.

In the movie, Eight Women, Ludivine Sagnier sang her 1963 hit "Papa t'es plus dans l'coup" ("Daddy, you are not in on it anymore").

Sheila's music also featured in the 1996 François Ozon film Une robe d'été (A Summer Dress).

After more than a decade of targeting the French teen music audience, mainly in French but also in Spanish, German and Italian, Sheila made a change in her career by releasing "Les Femmes (Qu'y a-t-il dans le cœur des femmes)", a song by Christine Charbonneau in 1976.

[5] "Les Femmes" brought to Sheila a revolution of modernity, making her one of the idols of the French pop music.

She enjoyed international success with hits such as "Singin' in the Rain", "Love Me Baby", "You Light my Fire" and "Spacer" (from the album King of the World, produced by Chic).

It was the beginning of a deep artistic disagreement with her French manager Carrère, which made Sheila leave France, move to New York "to start all over again" and studied at the Actors Studio.

She put an end to her artistic collaboration with her manager Carrère at the beginning of the 1980s, then took a brand new musical direction in 1983 when she met Yves Martin, a composer and producer who later became her husband.

It included more than 400 songs, unknown recordings, demos, alternative takes, duets, TV performances and German, Italian, Spanish and English versions of her hits.

In 2007, Warner Music France decided to release separately each of her albums on CD with its original artwork and bonus tracks.

Late 2019, Sheila took part in the French version of the famous Masked Singer TV franchise, under the Squirrel costume.

The two also formed a musical duo Sheila & Ringo most famous for their hit "Les Gondoles à Venise".