SALLY STREET - SINGER - SONGWRITER - ACTRESS - PRODUCER - MISCHIEF MAKER
Sally Street is one of Sydney's finest independent female singer/songwriters.
Sally returned with rave reviews from opening the Tangier Jazz Festival in Morocco "The delightful Australian Sally Street, was a hit at Castel Palace." reported Et-Tayeb Houdaifa in La Vie éco as part of his June 2009 review of the Tanjazz Festival, wowed audiences for 7 weeks as a headline act at the Venetian Casino in Macau China, opened the 2010 Sydney Multicultural Festival, 2011 Dubbo Jazz Festival, 2011 Every Woman Festival (a celebration of International Women's Day), 2008 Kings Cross Festival, 2009 Newcastle Jazz Festival, mesmerised crowds with her magnetic performances at Sydney's iconic music venue The Basement, The Vanguard, Slide, Star City Casino, Blue Beat Jazz Club, the Gold Coast Jazz and Blues Club in Queensland and on the club scene around her home country.
"Facebook Freak" from Sally's third studio pop album which she co-produced and co-wrote with her pianist Gerard Masters was a finalist in the 2010 Great American Song Contest and "Balloons Are Blowing In The Air" from the same album was a finalist in the 2010 Australian Songwriting Competition.
Sally's music is regularly aired across community and internet radio in Australia, the U.S. and Paris. "Sally's current single is a blues rock gem, "Tighter than Onion Rings", featuring solid guitar work by James Muller" reported The Manly Daily, 19 Feb 2010. "It's Mick Jagger's little sister" - Paris journalist Pascal Kober, 2 Feb 2010.
Sally's original pop songs have been featured on various independent compilation albums released in Australia, and her version of the latin jazz standard "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps" was released in November 2011 by EMI on a compilation in Greece and Cyprus alongside her idols: Dusty Springfield, Cilla Black, Eartha Kitt, Nancy Wilson and Dean Martin.
"Imagine your ideal cocktail as a woman, tall, swellegant, with equal parts bubbly personality, stir in a quantity of voluptuosity, a smidgen of playfulness, shake until flirty and look out baby, this drink is gonna pack some punch! Well, that pretty much sums up Sydney's Sally Street: a chanteuse who is all platinum, classy and captivating and who has one of the best voices in this country". Koop Koooper, "Cocktail Nation - The Interviews", Nov 2011
"Street's brazen, often playfully funny sensuality is like a splash of ice water underneath a desert sun. Street was named the “It Girl" of the Australian jazz scene when she made her debut with "One Bite at the Cherry" in 2008. It's not difficult to see why; her voice, sliding in between a sex-kitten purr and a soulful croon, is what microphones were made for." Music Industry News Network, 28 Feb 2011, http://mi2n.com/press.php3?press_nb=139235
BACKGROUND:
Sally started out on the Sydney music scene as a jazz singer singing the standards. However, spray painting a pelmet box in her back yard in Palm Beach in 2009 she heard a song that was entirely her own. So she fired up Protools and these days she is just as widely recognised as a singer/songwriter of both original pop and also jazzy-pop songs - who fearlessly smashes through the genre barriers with her wicked sense of fun!
Sally grew up in a an old rumble tumble coastal shack on Sydney's northern beaches with an eccentric jazz bass-playing father, a larger than life mother, 5 step brothers and sisters and a bull dog named Oscar. She spent most of her youth prancing around her bedroom with oranges taped to her chest and singing into a banana fantacising she was Ella Fitzgerald and Olivia Newton John. The oranges are no longer required, but the banana is. Mrs McGregor who was an 80 year old granny who lived four doors up (and used to boil her undies on the stove during lessons - sometimes they would burn) taught Sally to play the piano from the age of 5. Sally went on to have 18 students of her own which helped her get through her law degree, long after Mrs McGregor passed on to the great gig in the sky. Sally studied speech and drama, ballet, tap and character dancing all the way through school and used to sit on the bus and travel for miles to the city to visit Ellie Raab (who wore eyeliner like Amy Winehouse) to study opera singing and torture herself throwing up before going on stage at Eisteddfods. She also tralala'd in the Australian Girls Choir. When Sally left school she studied jazz singing with Kerrie Biddell, Steve Clisby, Joy Yates and spent every Saturday for a couple of years with a potty mouthed chain smoking sax player named Freddie Wilson who had a heart of gold and who taught her the art of courage and to sing with a live band in his garage workshop at Hunters Hill, every Thursday night at the Bald Faced Stag doing sit ins and Wednesday nights at the now closed Woodfire Pizza Cabaret in Double Bay impaling herself upon the house band and begging them to let her sing, until finally she landed her first gig. Sally was a nerd at school with a permed fringe, pimples and lots of big dreams. Sally likes red stillettos. After a spell as a Senior Associate in the mergers and acquisitions team in Asia Pacific's top tier law firm Mallesons Stephen Jaques she decided the briefcase was a bit of a yawn. So she hung up the briefcase, kept the stilettos on, took up singing professionally and stopped sitting around dreaming about it. You just have to keep flying your plane into rainbows, right?
Big dreams are a wonderful thing because sometimes they come true. "When it all began, all I dreamed of doing was spinning a few tunes in a smoky bar somewhere...... I've had the greatest privilege of coming so much further than what I ever dreamed and the greatest honour to perform and record with the finest musicians Australia has to offer, which is very humbling."
DISCOGRAPHY:
Nov 2011 "Lexi", Single (indie release)
Featuring Sally Street (vocals), Gerard Masters (piano and bvs), James Muller (guitar), Alex Hewetson (bass), Adrian Cunningham (sax) and Ian Mussington (drums). Written and produced by Sally Street and Gerard Masters. Mixed by Helik Hadar in L.A. Recorded at Free Energy Device Studios, Sydney.
Nov 2011 - "Panos Kallitsis - "Coupe De Peigne"" - compilation album featuring Sallly's track "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps" (released by EMI Greece)
2011 - "Indie Insiders", Austep Music Vol. 3 - compilation album featuring Sally's track "Without You" (released by Austep Music)
2011 - The Fur Group - compilation album featuring Sally's track "Love Is Like A Bindi-eye" (released by The Fur Group, Melbourne)
2010, "The Scorpion Maid", album (indie release)
Featuring Sally Street (vocals), Gerard Masters (piano and bvs), James Muller (guitar), Ian Cooper (strings), Phil Stack (bass), Andy Bickers (sax), Adrian Cunningham (sax) and Ian Mussington (drums). Written and produced by Sally Street and Gerard Masters. Mixed by Helik Hadar in L.A. Recorded at Electric Avenue Studios (Sydney).
2008, "One Bite At The Cherry", album (indie release)
Featuring Sally Street (vocals), Bill Risby (piano), Jon Pease (guitar), Natalie Morrison (bass), Adrian Cunningham (sax), Ian Cooper (strings) and Andrew Dickeson (drums). Produced by Steve Clisby and Sally Street. Mixed by Phil Punch. Recorded at Electric Avenue Studios, Sydney.
2007, "Little Evil Me" demo album (released by Newmarket Music, Melbourne)
Featuring Sally Street (vocals), Bill Risby (piano), Jon Pease (guitar), Alex Hewetson (bass), Adrian Cunningham (sax), and Hamish Stuart (drums). Produced by Steve Clisby and Sally Street. Mixed by Steve Clisby. Recorded under someone's house in Vaucluse.
RADIO
Sally would like to give a big shout out and thank you to the follow radio stations who have recently added Sally's music to their regular playlist. Thanks so much for supporting Aussie talent!!!
FM99.3 - 2NSB, Northside Radio (Chatswood, Sydney, NSW) - The effervescent Sharon Thompson and oh so suave Geoff Stanwell and the ever-jazzin Frank Preseley with "Now's The Time"
FM88.7 and FM90.3, Northern Beaches Radio (Belrose, Sydney, NSW) - "Jazz and All That" presented by Barbara Shorter and "Sam and the Francofous DC" presented by Sam Guedouard
2CCRfm 90.5 (Baulkham Hills, Sydney, NSW) - Ross Fear's "The Australian Spectrum Show"
Valley FM 95.9 (Queensland) - Graham Bottlebrush's Friday afternoon music show
2MCE (NSW, Bathurst) - "Sounds Live Radio" show
5CST, 88.7 Coast FM (St Morris, South Australia) - "Coast Drive" show
8KIN, CAAMA Radio (Alice Springs, Northern Territory) - "RIBS Radio" show
FM 89.7, Eastside Radio (Paddington, Sydney) - The wonderfully talented Susan Gai Dowling
5EFM, The Sound Of The Fleurieu (Victor Harbor, South Australia) - "Face The Music" show
Tjuma Pulka Media Aboriginal Corporation (Kalgoorlie, Western Australia) - "The Lunch Time Roll" show
3Way FM, 103.7 Great Ocean Radio (Warrnambool, Victoria) - "Solid Gold" show
5TGR FM (Mount Gambier, South Australia) - "The AMRAP Show"
3PBS (Clifton Hill, Victoria) - "Home Brew & Big Mob" show
Bondi FM88 (Bondi, Sydney), "On The Beach" show presented by Martin Broome
2SER, 107.3 Real Radio (Sydney)
2EARFM, 92.3FM North, 104.5FM Central and 99.7FM South (Shoalhaven (NSW)), Carole Hayes' jazz show "All The Best"
FM99.9 SWRFM, (Sydney, Australia) "Smooth Mix" hosted by Dominic Vozzo
The Community Radio Network satellite broadcast service syndicated to 160+ community stations Australia wide
The king of swank, Koop Kooper's podcast "The Cocktail Nation", streaming from Sydney, Australia: www.thecocktailnation.wordpress.com
Pop jazz radio podcast streaming out of GERMANY at: www.popjazzradio.com
Midnight Special Blues Radio, streaming out of Paris, FRANCE: www.ms-blues.com
Radio Crystal Blue, a podcast run by Dan Herman streaming online out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA: www.radiocrystalblue.net