Renee Geyer | Artist

Renée Geyer was an Australian soul & blues/rock vocalist born 1953 in Melbourne. She is regarded in Australia and internationally as one of finest exponents of jazz, soul and R&B vocal music. Geyer has also been an internationally sought-after backing vocalist, whose session credits include work with Sting, Chaka Khan, Toni Childs and Joe Cocker. Before her solo career kicked-off Geyer was a member of jazz-blues group Dry Red, followed by jazz-rock combo Sun and, finally, R&B/Soul group Mother Goose. The only album release by any of the three was Sun 1972, which features a young Renee Geyer on vocals, along with Richard Clapton, before his solo career kicked off. Geyer's self-titled debut album gained some attention but her second, It's A Man's Man's World, from 1974 achieved chart success, backed by the James Brown penned single of the same name. Geyer spent nine years in the USA and whilst there joined the short-lived band Easy Pieces alongside Hamish Stuart from Average White Band. Geyer went on to release 15 studio albums and enjoyed a string of successful hit singles in Australia and the USA in the late '70s and early '80s. Stand-out albums include It's a Man's Man's World (1974), Ready to Deal (1975), Moving Along (1977), Winner (1978), Blues License (1979), So Lucky (1981), Difficult Woman (1994), Sweet Life (1999), Tenderland (2003) and Tonight (2005). Geyer died on the 17th of January 2023, aged 69. As a matter of interest, Geyer's mother was a Holocaust survivor and she named her daughter Renée after another Holocaust survivor who had helped her in Auschwitz after Josef Mengele had assigned the rest of her mother's family to death.

Artist Website: reneegeyer.com.au

Featured Albums: Renée Geyer

Related Artists: Crossfire, Average White Band, Sun

Video Clips: Say I Love You, It's a Man's World, Stares and Wispers