Richardson began performing professionally in the early 1980s, both as a solo blues, jazz and R&B vocalist and with the family musical group The Richardsons.[3]
Her first recording, the dance-pop single "He's My Lover", was released in 1985, and she won the award for Most Promising Female Vocalist at the Juno Awards of 1986.[4] Her second single, "Peek-a-Boo" was released the following year and won the award for Best R&B/Soul Recording at the Juno Awards of 1987.[5] The song was also named best single, and Richardson best female artist, at the 1987 Black Music Awards of Canada.[6]
She continued to perform in Montreal as a jazz singer, as a performer in musical theatre productions, in continued collaborations with her mother and as a backing vocalist for other musicians. Her first full-length album, Kaleidoscope, was released in 2006,[9] and her second, Mes amours, followed in 2011.[14] She also participated in the recording of the soundtrack to the 2011 film Funkytown.[15]
In recent years, she has also been a frequent collaborator with singer-songwriter Jonathan Roy.[16]
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