An Australian singer who has long been recognized as one of the finest exponents of jazz, soul, and R&B idioms Renée Rebecca Geyer died at 69 on January 17, 2023, of complications from hip surgery, which had also discovered inoperable lung cancer.
Born in 1953 in Melbourne, at age 16, while she was still in High School, Geyer began her singing career as a vocalist with the jazz-blues band Dry Red.
In 1973, Geyer was signed to RCA Records, who had released Sun’s album the year before.
Geyer released her fourth studio album Moving Along on RCA/Mushroom Records and peaked at #11 in Australia.
In 2000, Geyer released her autobiography, “Confessions of a Difficult Woman”, after her 1994 studio album.
Geyer performed at the Opening Ceremony of the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney.
Geyer released her fifteenth studio album Swing, which is a big-band covers album in April 2013. The album peaked at number 22 in Australia.
That same year in November, Geyer was inducted into the Music Victoria Hall of Fame.
In October 2018, Geyer stipulated that she wanted to record a new album; “I am playing it by ear, but sometime in the next year, I would like to do something another new album said, Geyer.