An American pop and session singer, perhaps best known for her work in the late 1970s with Neil Young and her 1978 hit single of Young's Lotta Love. It was followed by several more adult contemporary and minor pop hits. By 1985, she had shifted her focus to country music.

She had earlier provided backing vocals to Commander Cody and also worked with Emmylou Harris, notably on the album Luxury Liner (1977). The latter led to her meeting and becoming friends with Linda Ronstadt, who then recommended her to Neil Young. It also led to her meeting guitarist and songwriter Hank DeVito and the two later married and divorced.

In the early 1980s, she was engaged to Andrew Gold, which ended shortly after the completion of her 1982 album All Dressed Up and No Place to Go, which Gold had produced.

In 1990, she married session drummer Russ Kunkel, and the two were married until her death in 1997 as a result of complications arising from cerebral oedema triggered by liver failure.