A classically trained singer and pianist, Judith Durham had always been more interested in jazz than folk music. But at age 19, while working as a secretary at an advertising firm in Melbourne ...

It seemed like a nice adventure, she thought, so she put her jazz ambitions on hold and tagged along with her three singing friends. The voyage propelled Durham and the band to the top of the pop ...

Judith Durham launched a successful solo career after ... singing anything and everything from folk to jazz to blues to gospel to ragtime and classical. In the 1970s, she recorded trad jazz ...

Durham was born Judith Mavis Cock in the Melbourne suburb ... But in 1968, Durham, who had always wanted to return to a solo jazz career, decided to leave the group. "I found artistically that ...

Cyrus Meher-Homji, senior vice president of classics and jazz at Universal, said Durham and The Seekers entranced him as a five-year-old child. “High above, the dawn awaits you, Judith.

JUDITH DURHAM, THE SEEKERS: My Sister Beverley and I both, we were frequenting the trad jazz clubs around Melbourne. And I went up and asked a band if I could sing with them. And it was quite late ...

Judith Durham's older sister Beverley Sheehan also sang accompanied by Melbourne jazz band The Syncopators. 'This could be the hardest thing I've ever had to do,' she said. There were also ...

“Judith Durham left an immense legacy ... In her late teens, she began singing – first in jazz and gospel, before joining The Seekers. The group travelled to the UK in 1964 where they began ...

And the jazz clubs were more fun ... Years later, he explained that he had been overwhelmed by her interpretation: “Judith Durham, like Karen Carpenter and Eva Cassidy, possesses the purest ...