For the past four years, the voice has been heard all over Cambridge.

In the funk band, the Upside; in the rock band Robespierre; in the a capella group, the Opportunes. It has been featured in solo performances as well: at Jazz for Life, at the 350th Celebration two years ago, at the the Regattabar.

But the voice does more than sing.

It greeted dancers at the Senior Soiree. It helps arrange senior activities at Wadsworth House. And it has also been heard in psychology and organic chemistry classes.

All these situations.

One voice--that of Fiona V. Anderson '88.

Anderson is no ordinary student entertainer. Her performance skills span the musical spectrum, but her singing success is only half of the story. As a psychology major, she has managed to fulfill all her requirements for medical school in case her musical career does not meet her expectations. And those dreams may well be high--for after graduation Anderson plans to return to her home in Georgia and start working on a record under the auspices of an Atlanta-based studio.

Four years ago, Anderson would never have dreamed all this was possible. In fact, four years ago, Anderson thought she had given up a musical career forever when she turned down a recording offer from Savoy Records in order to come to Harvard. "When I came here, I had no idea that I'd be pursuing singing," Anderson says. "I thought that that would be the end of it all. But Harvard's given me such confidence in myself. And my friends said, `If you don't, Fiona, you're a fool.' So I just decided to try it."

"That's one thing I have to thank Harvard for doing," Anderson says. "I never did, and to this day I really don't, consider myself as any great singer. I just do what I like to do. It makes other people happy, and that makes me happy. But up until the time I came up here, I was still very insecure about the way I sang. I was in a group--we cut a record--and I hated singing lead."

But things have changed now, Anderson says. "By doing little things here and there, I've really become confident in what I do."

For all her purported lack of confidence, Anderson has had plenty of experience. "Singing has been my love forever," Anderson says. And how long is forever? "From the moment I could say `Ma-ma,'" she says.

The oldest daughter of Jamaican immigrants, Anderson was born in London and moved to the United States when she was three years old. Her father is a Pentecostal minister, and when she was little Anderson would sing during Sunday services, alone or in the choir.

Even then, the Kirkland House senior remembers, she had bouts of stage fright. "I remember it was such a struggle for me to sing," she says. "I remember when I was 10 years old, my daddy always asked me to sing a solo and I'd cry."

Although Anderson spent her early years in Massachusetts, her family moved to Georgia when she was 13. "I thought I wasn't going to like it, but I loved it," Anderson says. "I was kind of apprehensive about the whole thing. But I ended up really liking it. I liked the Southern mentality."

When it came time to choose colleges, Anderson knew exactly where she wanted to go--Harvard. "It's the best and I wanted to be here," Anderson says. "I knew that from the time I was in 10th grade. One day I decided I wanted to go to Harvard and that was it."