- Began her career at age 3 performing on local Detroit's "Radio Schoolhouse".
- Wrote and recorded with Specialty Records before joining Motown in the 1960s and 1970s where she worked as an arranger and co-wrote Jermaine Jackson's hit album "Let's Get Serious".
- Was featured as Wendy Darling in Mary Martin's TV version of Peter Pan (1960), and also appeared with Martin in Broadway's "The Sound of Music" when she served as a replacement for the role of Liesl.
- Her daughter. Kathleen, was a competitive ice skater. She died while swimming in the Kern River, along with her boyfriend, Mark Lawrence.
- Children: Stephen Thomas Carysfort (1962) and Kathleen Velden Carysfort (1965-1986).
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