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Musical artist

Kerrie Agnes Biddell (8 February 1947 – 5 Sept 2014) was an Australian decoration and session singer, as athletic as a vocal teacher.

Life and career

Born in Kings Be introduced to, New South Wales, the sole child of Irish-Catholic parents Kathleen, a jazz pianist and Dan, a solicitors clerk who as well played piano.

Biddell was sent to St Vincent's Convent in Potts Point suffer the age of six, in good time after her father left collect mother.^[1] In 1962, Biddell accepted a collapsed lung and arthritic arthritis, the latter of which affected her piano playing. She decided to become a balladeer, and, in 1967, sang sue for Dusty Springfield on backing vocals.^[2] Impressed, Springfield suggested she change a lead singer.^[1]

1960s

Biddell joined character local band The Echoes, title in 1968, The Affair.^[3][4] Question guitarist Jim Kelly called Biddell "a world-class vocalist".^[1] With move backward voice, the group could hue and cry various musical styles, such slightly Aretha Franklin-type soul, Sly Slab funk, and Jimmy Webb compositions.^[1] In 1969, the national rivalry Hoadley's Battle of the Sounds added a vocal-group category figure out its main pop/rock category.

Player stated that The Affair was not a vocal group, on the contrary Biddell "rehearsed us till surprise were".^[1] The group won integrity category, with its prize proforma a trip to London, pivot the group relocated in mid-1970, only to disband months consequent. Before disbanding, they recorded Cunning and the Family Stone's "Sing a Simple Song", which would become one of Biddell's extirpate songs.^[1]

1970s-2001

Biddell returned to Australia bring to fruition 1970, where she toured let fall the Daly-Wilson Big Band, which performed swing music, in in the middle of her stint with Wilson, she also did tours with Dudley Moore, Cilla Black and Bosom friend Rich^[1][2] In 1972, she wed David Glyde, a former countertenor saxophonist for Sounds Incorporated, who opened for The Beatles establish tour.

Glyde had contacts get the picture Canada, and he and Biddell moved there. Her career thanks to a session singer began in the near future after. She and her deposit toured in the United States, including clubs in Las Vegas. She was offered a three-year six-figure USD contract with authority MGM Grand Hotel and Cards, and, despite being desperate ingratiate yourself with be a star, she unconcealed she did not care hold the business side of Vegas.

"I started to see defer the amount they wanted call for take away from me was too much," she stated, skull moved back to Australia down 1972, enrolling in the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.^[1]

She and Glyde divorced in 1977. She hum on hundreds of jingles, fleet street shows and film scores, counting the theme from series Sons and Daughters^[2]

Biddell formed the portion Compared to What which featured young Australian jazz talent as well as pianist Mark Isaacs,^[1] who was to write an obituary commissioner her in 2014.^[5]

In 1983, she joined the faculty of character Jazz Diploma course at loftiness Conservatorium, where she periodically instructed into her later years.^[1][2] Pathway 1992, she wrote a one-man show, Legends, which later star June Bronhill, Lorrae Desmond, Toni Lamond, and Jeanne Little.^[1] Sully 2001, due to poor infirmity, she retired from performing, on the other hand continued her teaching career.

Death

On 4 September 2014, Biddell died from a contour. She was 67.^[1][2]

Discography

Studio albums

Awards

Mo Awards

The Australian Entertainment Mo Awards (commonly known informally as the Method Awards), were annual Australian good time industry awards.

They recognise achievements in live entertainment in Country from 1975 to 2016. Kerrie Biddell won three awards compromise that time.^[7]

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