Georgia Lee Georgia Lee i(A110941 works by) (birth name: Dulcie Lyra Rumia Pitt)
Born: Established: Feb 1921 Cairns, Cairns area, Ingham - Cairns area, Queensland, ; Died: Ceased: 23 Apr 2010 Cairns, Cairns area, Ingham - Cairns area, Queensland,
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Scottish ; Torres Strait Islander ; Indian
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Georgia Lee was a blues singer in the 1960s and 1970s. She began her career as Dulcie Pitt singing with her sisters, Sophie and Heather, in a group called the Harmony Sisters. Lee performed with many Australian bands, appeared on television shows and accompanied Nat King Cole on his Australian tour in the 1950s. In 1962, with the release of her album Georgia Sings the Blues Downunder, she became the first Aboriginal woman to release an LP and the first Australian singer to be recorded in stereo. In August 2009, Georgia Sings the Blues Downunder became part of the collection of the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia: The National Registry of Recorded Sound.

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