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\u201cDior\u2019s voice has the depth, control and clarity of Gregory Porter\u201d Kind Of Jazz<\/p>\n
“Since Australian vocalist Lily Dior arrived on the London scene she’s been going from strength to\u00a0strength and amassing a reputation as an exciting live performer and versatile singer who works\u00a0across genres including jazz, groove and soul” 606 Club<\/p>\n
Recognised as one of Australia\u2019s finest singers, Lily Dior has shared the stage with a remarkable list of\u00a0outstanding musicians from Australia and around the world and has performed at many of Australia’s\u00a0best venues including The Opera House Concert Hall, The State Theatre and the Sydney Town Hall.\u00a0A finalist at The National Jazz Awards she is also an experienced radio personality and three time host\u00a0of The Freedman Fellowship Jazz Awards held yearly at The Studio, Sydney Opera House.<\/p>\n
The daughter of professional musicians who met and married in London, Lily spent her first five years\u00a0touring the world with her parents who later settled in Australia. Returning to her roots Lily has very\u00a0quickly established herself as an in demand performer appearing regularly at iconic jazz venues such\u00a0as Ronnie Scott\u2019s, The 606 Club, The Bull\u2019s Head and Pizza Express. She is a regular guest at The\u00a0Hideaway, having recently performed an Aretha Franklin show for three nights with Janette Mason and\u00a0Mary Pearce, and was invited to perform at The Budapest Jazz Club last year.<\/p>\n
Her current album \u2018Let\u2019s Talk About It\u2019, originally released in Sydney, was successfully launched at\u00a0Pizza Express last year with an all star band and has received rave reviews:<\/p>\n
\u201cBacked by an undeniably impressive resume, her album soothes the very essence of soul right into\u00a021st-century Sydney. Rich in musicality and pure talent, \u2018Let\u2019s Talk About It\u2019 offers hints of Carole\u00a0King, Aretha Franklin and Billie Holiday, all siphoned into the huge funky voice of Lily Dior. \u201c\u00a0(Alternative Media Group)<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s an attention to detail in the arrangements and a beauty in the vocals that make this an\u00a0album I\u2019ll certainly be coming back to again\u201d (Kind Of Jazz)<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is an impressive production \u2013 a tight core band, augmented variously with horns, strings and\u00a0backing singers. Throughout, the spotlight is on Dior\u2019s singing, sassy, soulful, passionate and\u00a0strong.\u201d (Rhythms)<\/p>\n
Discovered by the late great Hungarian bassist Jackie Orszaczky as a teenager, performing a show she wrote\u00a0and produced on the life of Billie Holiday, Lily became a seminal member of Sydney\u2019s hottest Soul\/Funk outfit,\u00a0\u2018The Godmothers\u2019, wowing audiences with her electric stage presence and powerful voice.<\/p>\n
Her debut album \u2018Invitation\u2019 released by the ABC, received universal praise and put Lily firmly on the\u00a0Australian music map.\u201cInvitation is a deep, moving piece of work that is almost ridiculously listenable and is\u00a0destined to be required listening for any music lover possessing a cultured taste.” (Drum Media).<\/p>\n
Lily has performed at major festivals across Australia and New Zealand including the Sydney Festival,\u00a0\u00a0International Jazz Festival, Adelaide Cabaret Festival and the
Wangaratta Festival of Jazz where she placed second at The National Jazz Awards led by a panel of international
judges including Kurt Elling, Laurence Hobgood, and Sheila Jordan.<\/p>\n
Awarded a grant in 2000, Lily traveled to New York to study with jazz legend Mark Murphy, and was invited to
perform at one of his rare appearances. That same year, she was singled out by legendary arranger\/pianist Dave
Matthews to perform with The Manhattan Jazz Quintet, which included Bill Evans, Charnett Moffatt, Victor
Lewis, and Lew Soloff, at Sydney Casino\u2019s Lyric Theatre.<\/p>\n
A featured artist in \u2018Testimony\u2019, an audio-visual spectacular based on the life of Charlie Parker. with music by\u00a0Sandy Evans and performed by the Australian Art Orchestra, the show received glowing reviews,\u00a0\u201cOne of the most memorable festival shows in Sydney for a very long time\u201d (Real Time Arts)\u00a0\u201cLily Dior presided like a pagan priestess over the last rites\u201d (Sydney Morning Herald)<\/p>\n
Invited to sing with Brazilian guitarist Oscar Castro Neves and his all star band at \u2018Noite Brasil\u2019 for the Sydney
Festival, Lily performed to an audience of 100,000 people with some of the world\u2019s greatest jazz and latin artists
including Airto Moriera, Alex Acuna, Abraham Laboriel, Don Grusin and Gary Meeks.<\/p>\n
\u201cLily Dior has never sounded better than she did joining the magic for How Insensitive and, later in the\u00a0night, Dindi, a charming duet with Castro Neves\u2019s nylon string guitar.\u201d (Sydney Morning Herald)\u00a0Lily has built a solid reputation overseas with performances in New York, London, New Zealand, Japan,\u00a0Singapore, Shanghai and Hong Kong and has shared the stage with a who\u2019s who of world-class musicians\u00a0including Paul Grabowsky; Mark Isaacs; Dale Barlow; Mike Nock; Guy Strazzulo; Alister Spence; Kate
Cebrano; D.I.G; The Mighty Reapers; The Bays (UK); and James Morrison. She\u2019s been featured on TV and\u00a0Radio programs including ABC\u2019s \u2018The Pulse\u2019, the James O\u2019Lochlan Show; ABC\u2019s Arts program; as well as live\u00a0performance broadcasts for the ABC and Eastside Radio.<\/p>\n
An experienced radio personality, Lily became involved in radio as a teenager, and hosted a show on Sydney\u2019s
premiere jazz station \u2018Eastside Radio\u2019 for over 10 years. Her program \u2018Voices\u2019 featured interviews with leading
Australian and International artists including Ron Carter, Kurt Elling, Marcos Valle, Cassandra Wilson, Theo
Bleckman, Ricky Peterson, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Norma Winstone, Katie Noonan, Lulo Reinhart, The Idea Of
North, Vika Bull, Fred Wesley, Gian Slater, Ingrid James, Kristen Cornwell, James Valentine and Vince Jones.<\/p>\n
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