Georgia Lee (singer)

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

Life and work

Aunty Dulcie Pitt, considered the first indigenous jazz singer in Australia, grew up in Cairns. My father was from Jamaica, her mother was Aboriginal, Icelandic, Scottish and Indian ancestors. Already established as a teenager with her two sisters Sophie and Heather Pitt the vocal group Harmony Sisters, accompanied by her brother Wally as a guitarist. After the outbreak of war, she worked for the U.S. armed forces and occurred in the troop entertainment. Due to the interest of the soldiers of jazz and blues, she began to turn to these styles; after the war, they then went into Sydney in clubs and adopted the pseudonym Georgia Lee. With the friendly indigenous singer Harold Blair took part in the 1951 Moomba Celebration, advertised as a show of Aborigines. In the 1950s she performed in London's Royal Festival Hall with the Geraldo Dance Band; in Australia, she went in the late 1950s with Nat King Cole and his trio on tour, 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). 1962, her album Georgia Lee Sings the Blues Down Under, which was included in the Sounds of Australia registry in 2009: It was also the first Australian stereo album and the second album, which was recorded by a female artist in Australia.

Lee was the first indigenous Australian artist, which grossed an album and recorded the blues songs. The Australian ABC radio she honored 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)
Vocal jazz
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