 Following a spell as a catwalk model, she scored a number of club hits after recording with the group The Biz in 1983.Her first commercial success came in early 1988, when she sang on Coldcut's "Doctorin' the House".She soon launched a solo career on Big Life records, a label set up by her husband Jazz Summers, releasing her debut solo single, "The Only Way Is Up", in the summer of 1988.