In 2015, she became the director of creative learning at The Sage in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England.
[1] She joined Prefab Sprout in 1983 after seeing them live in their early concerts,[2] and featured on six of their studio albums as a singer, guitarist and keyboard player.
[3] The last album she recorded with the group was 1997's Andromeda Heights,[4] though she remained a member of the band until 2001.
"[6] After an inactive period of the band in the late 1990s, coupled with Smith being pregnant,[7][8] she moved first into teaching,[9] and then becoming the head of practitioner development at Sage Gateshead in 2003.
[11] In 2021, Smith appeared on a single called "Winter Solstice" from poet Simon Armitage's band, LYR.