 It was around the time she began writing songs that she also began her long association with songwriter/producer Craig Leon.Webb went to Europe in the early 1980s, first to Holland and then to England, where she remained permanently and began her solo recording career.Initially signed to the tiny independent label Statick Records, for which she recorded her debut album, "Llano", she later joined the roster of Venture Records, an off-shoot of Richard Branson's Virgin Records label, through which she recorded "Thief of Sadness" in 1987.