“She was in no pain and died peacefully amongst family and friends,” the statement from ReneeGeyer's label said. Read more here:
Acclaimed blues and soul singer Renee Geyer has died in hospital in Melbourne following complications after hip surgery. Her distinctive, husky voice saw her dubbed Australia’s queen of soul and she had sung since she was a teenager. She was performing as recently as last month and had intended to continue doing so.
Born in Melbourne in 1953, to a Hungarian-Jewish father and a Slovak-Jewish mother who had survived the Holocaust, she was the youngest of three children. Geyer starting singing aged 16, while still at high school, and released her self-titled debut album in 1973. Marcia Hines paid tribute to Geyer on Twitter, describing her as “A game changer. A soul diva. My sister in song.” Hines went on to say “Heartfelt condolences to her family and friends, and to the Australian music industry as a whole who have just lost a person who possessed one of the greatest voices I have ever heard.”
Also on Twitter, Paul Grabowsky dubbed her “Australia’s own Queen of Soul”, saying “a truly incredible singer has left us”.In 1975, Geyer participated in the 1975 federal election campaign for the Liberal Party, singing their theme song “Turn on the Lights”; she later distanced herself from the party, saying she did so simply to earn enough money to make a record in the US.
was released in 2000. She was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2005, in 2013 she was the first woman to be inducted into the Music Victoria Hall of Fame, and she received the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award at the Australian Women in Music Awards in 2018.
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