[2][5][6] The family maintained close links to the local Tongan community, and the sisters were taught traditional singing and dancing.

[citation needed] By 1983 Vika had started a band, Blue Tomatoes,[8] with one of the café's co-owners, Toni Edwards.

[10] Later in 1987 the sisters formed their own band, The Honeymooners,[9][12] with a line up of Jack Abeyratne, Thiery Fossmalle on bass guitar, and Steve Sedergreen.

[10][13] Vika met John Watson, drummer (ex-Australian Crawl, Kevin Borich Express) in James Reyne Band,[14] and they married in 1997.

Vika's first recording opportunity occurred when Rebecca Barnard was using the Platinum Studios and one of her backing vocalists "lost her voice".

[10][11] By mid-1988, Vika and Linda had joined the Black Sorrows, a blues-rock group, which had formed in 1983 by Joe Camilleri (ex-Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons) on lead vocals and saxophone.

[17] Vika and Linda provided backing vocals on the band's hits on the related ARIA Singles Chart, "Hold On to Me", "Chained to the Wheel" and "The Crack-Up".

[17] For live gigs, Camilleri would give each their own "spots" displaying different voices: "Vika strong and soulful.

The group toured in support of its release, Nicole Leedham of The Canberra Times noted that the band "has also been through the odd line-up change, with the latest incarnations offering the harmonies of Vika and Linda Bull, being the most successful".

[9] While members of The Black Sorrows, the duo provided vocals for other artists: Hunters and Collectors' What's a Few Men?

(November 1987) and Ghost Nation (November 1989); Ross Wilson's Dark Side of the Man (July 1989); Archie Roach's Charcoal Lane (May 1990); John Farnham's Chain Reaction (September 1990); Seven Stories' Judges and Bagmen (1990); Deborah Conway's String of Pearls (October 1991) and Bitch Epic (1993).

By February 1994 Vika and Linda had announced they would leave The Black Sorrows and were "branching into their solo careers".

[19] They began performing original works[12] and country music covers at venues like the Cherry Tree and The Esplanade.

[20] Also that year the duo was invited to Tonga to sing at celebrations for the 75th birthday of King Tāufaʻāhau Tupou.

Kelly had offered twelve tracks (they recorded five) including "Ninety Nine Years", which had been co-written with Vika and Linda.

[21][22] Three other tracks were written specifically for the duo, "When Will You Fall For Me" by Mark Seymour (of Hunters & Collectors),[23] "House of Love" by Wayne Burt,[24] and "These Hands That Hold Me" by Eris O'Brien.

[11][26] Linda told The Canberra Times' Naomi Mapstone "it was amazing how friendly and helpful these people were, they could just as easily have said no because they're so busy".

[26] Another The Canberra Times review described their music as "a mix of blues, reggae, rock and country-flavoured offerings".

[10] It has tracks co-written by the sisters with various collaborators including Barker, Diesel, Kelly, and Tim Finn.

[33] It was recorded in Melbourne, Sydney and in Tonga – where they "paid their respects to the nation's monarch King Taufa'ahu [sic] Tupou".

[6][11] Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, felt the album was a "purer reflection of the cultural strains and rich diversity of their heritage".

[10] Australian music journalist, Ed Nimmervoll, declared it to be his Album of the Week, noting that it "brings us back to the start, pure Vika and Linda, just singing together, as they always have and always will, applying all the experience and confidence they've accumulated, more gospel than you might expect".

Vika and Linda's fourth studio album, Love is Mighty Close, was released independently in July 2002 using a country-blues style.

Tracks were written by Cummings, Kelly, Cyndi Boste, Dan Brodie, Rob Snarski and Chris Wilson.

During a three month residency at the Cornish Arms, Vika and Linda played and recorded gospel tunes; which resulted in a second live album, Tell the Angels, in May 2004.

In December of that year, MGM Distribution re-issued four of their early albums: Vika and Linda, Princess Tabu, Two Wings and Live & Acoustic.

[37] During the 2010s, the sisters frequently provided backing vocals for the guest artist on the TV show RocKwiz.

Anyone who has to sing the national anthem at a major sporting event in the future needs to YouTube this as research".

[41][42] During the COVID-19 pandemic, the duo live streamed a series of singing sessions via Facebook, where they sang songs for their fans.

[46] The Wait includes tracks written by Bernard Fanning, Don Walker, Paul Kelly, Kasey Chambers, Augie March's Glenn Richards and the Living End's Chris Cheney, and debuted at number two on the ARIA Albums Chart.