Georgia Lee

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Georgia Lee (* around 1921 in Cairns , Queensland as Aunty Dulcie Pitt ; † April 23, 2010 ibid) was an Australian blues and jazz singer .

Live and act

Aunty Dulcie Pitt, who is considered Australia's first indigenous jazz singer, grew up in Cairns. Her father was from Jamaica and her mother had Aboriginal , Icelandic, Scottish and Indian ancestry. As a teenager she founded the vocal formation Harmony Sisters with her two sisters Sophie and Heather Pitt , accompanied by her brother Wally as a guitarist. After the outbreak of war she worked in the US armed forces and appeared in troop entertainment. Because of the soldiers' interest in jazz and blues , she began to turn to these styles; after the end of the war she appeared in clubs in Sydney and took the pseudonym Georgia Lee . With her friend, indigenous singer Harold Blair, she took part in the Moomba Celebration in 1951 , advertised as an Aboriginal show. In the 1950s she performed at London's Royal Festival Hall with the Geraldo Dance Band ; In Australia she went on tour with Nat King Cole and his trio in the late 1950s , sang in the Graeme Bell Jazz Band, with Geraldo , Bruce Clarke , the Port Jackson Jazz Band, George Trevare and the Max Williams Quintet and had television appearances ( Bandstand and Graham Kennedy's In Melbourne Tonight ). In 1962 her album Georgia Lee Sings the Blues Down Under was released , which was included in the Sounds Of Australia Register in 2009 : It was both the first Australian stereo album and the second album to be recorded by an artist in Australia.

Lee was the first indigenous Australian artist to make an album and record the blues songs. The Australian radio station ABC honored her with a documentary about her career.

Discography

  • Georgia Lee Sings the Blues Down Under (Crest, 1962)
  • "It's A Lovely Day Tomorrow" (1961) Rex
  • " Graeme Bell Jazz Concert: EPs 1 and 5" (1949)
  • "Graeme Bell Jazz Concert: EPs 10 and 14" (1949)
  • "Graeme Bell Jazz Concert: EPs 19 and 23" (1949)
  • Bruce Clarke Quintones - St Louis Blues (Jazzart, 1951)
  • Bruce Clarke Quintones - Blue Moon (Jazzart, 1951)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Radio portrait August 4, 2010 ( Memento of the original from October 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.indigenous.gov.au
  2. ^ A b c Clinton Walker [2000]: Last of the Red Hot Mammas . In: Buried Country: The Story of Aboriginal Country Music . Pluto Press ,, ISBN 1864031522 , pp. 50-67.
  3. ↑ Anna Shnukal [2001]: Torres Strait Islanders . In: Multilcutlural Queensland 2001: 100 years, 100 communities, A century of contributions . The State of Queensland (Department of Premier and Cabinet),.
  4. ↑ a b Courier Mail Northern stars
  5. ↑ a b c National Film and Sound Archive Sounds of Australia registry - 2009 additions ( Memento of the original from October 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nfsa.gov.au
  6. ^ The Age
personal data
SURNAME Lee, Georgia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pitt, Aunty Dulcie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian blues and jazz singer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Cairns
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 2010
Place of death Cairns