Born in Kingston and raised in Manchester, Jamaica, she began her career in 1971 with the single "Sad Movies".
[1] She had her greatest success in January 1981 with "Just When I Needed You Most", which reached number 31 on the UK Singles Chart.
[2] She toured as backing singer with Jimmy Cliff in the late 1970s and early 1980s;[1] In 1991, she became a devout Christian and gave up secular music to concentrate on gospel music.
[1] She returned to reggae with performances in Brazil with Lloyd Parks.
[4] Her health deteriorated and she died in Kingston's University Hospital of the West Indies on 19 December 2014, from pneumonia contracted during chemotherapy treatments.