Active as a singer since her teenage years, Austin initially recorded as one half of the duo Colourhaus, which also featured Phil Radford.

She is most known in the United States for playing the role of Pippa McKenna on The Facts of Life during its final season.

[2] In the 1990s, she started a singing career, teaming up with Phil Radford in 1992, to form a duo, Colourhaus, which released one album, Water to the Soul.

[4] The Colourhaus song "Colour Me You" was on the soundtrack of the "Rookie of the Year" episode of the television series Baywatch on 5 October 1992.

It produced singles in "Lucky in Love", "One Solitary Tear", "Put Your Heart into It", and "Innocent Man".

After RCA acquired Arista Records, Austin's publishing company, Reynsong Publishing, formed Wrensong Entertainment and signed to Madacy Entertainment for her next album, Followin' a Feelin', which produced another single in its lead-off single, a cover of Dolly Parton's "Jolene".

That twang in her voice provides some much-needed authenticity in excellent pop-country numbers like "Ain't Goin' Back."

"[5] The following year, Austin performed in Ring of Fire – The Johnny Cash Musical Show[6] at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.

[12] "The last few years I had been complaining about that fact that there weren’t any females speaking to women above the age of 30, so I started thinking about how I was writing my songs and came up with the idea for "Friday Night Girls"...