Sylvia Brooks started her career in classical theatre, having studied at The American Conservatory Theater under the direction of Allen Fletcher and Bill Ball.

[1] In 2009, Brooks began singing jazz and collaborated with Thomas Garvin, who wrote the arrangements for her debut album Dangerous Liaisons.

The Arrangement also began her journey into songwriting with three original songs co-written by Christian Jacob, Patrick Williams and Quinn Johnson.

In January 2024, while at the Jazz Congress at Lincoln Center in New York, Brooks made a pilgrimage to the 9-11 Memorial, where close to 3000 people lost their lives.

She relocated to Los Angeles and began working in Episodic Television, but when her father died, while going through his archives, she realized she wanted to return to her roots in Jazz.