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Renée Rebecca Geyer〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Renée Geyer history )〕 (born 11 September 1953, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is an Australian singer who has long been regarded as one of the finest exponents of jazz, soul and R&B idioms.〔 She had commercial success as a solo artist in Australia, with "It's a Man's Man's World", "Heading in the Right Direction" and "Stares and Whispers" in the 1970s and "Say I Love You" in the 1980s.〔 NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988.〕 Geyer has also been an internationally respected and sought-after backing vocalist, whose session credits include work with Sting,〔 Chaka Khan, Toni Childs and Joe Cocker.〔〔 In 2000, her autobiography, ''Confessions of a Difficult Woman'', co-written with music journalist Ed Nimmervoll, was published.〔 In her candid book, Geyer detailed her drug addictions, sex life and career in music.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Confessions of a Difficult Woman: The Renee Geyer Story'' (Paperback) - Editorial reviews - product description )〕 She described herself as "a white Hungarian Jew from Australia sounding like a 65-year-old black man from Alabama".〔 She spent more than ten years based in the United States but had little chart success there.〔 Geyer returned to Australia in the mid-1990s and her career has continued into the 21st century with her 2003 album, ''Tenderland'', which peaked at #11 on the ARIA albums charts.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Discography Renée Geyer )〕 Rock historian Ian McFarlane described her as having a "rich, soulful, passionate and husky vocal delivery".〔 Geyer's iconic status in the Australian music industry was recognised when she was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame on 14 July 2005, alongside The Easybeats, Hunters & Collectors, Smoky Dawson, Split Enz and Normie Rowe.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=ARIA 2008 Hall of Fame inductees listing ) 〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Winners by Award: Hall of Fame )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Winners by Artist: Renee Geyer )〕 Geyer and fellow 1970s singer, Marcia Hines, are the subjects of Australian academic, Jon Stratton's 2008 Cultural Studies article, "A Jew Singing Like a Black Woman in Australia: Race, Renée Geyer, and Marcia Hines".〔 ==Early years== Renée Geyer was born in 1953 in Melbourne, Australia, to a Hungarian Jewish father, Edward Geyer, and a Slovak Holocaust survivor mother, as the youngest of three children.〔 Geyer was named Renée for another Holocaust survivor who had helped her mother in Auschwitz after Josef Mengele had assigned the rest of her mother's family to death.〔 At a young age, the Geyers moved to Sydney where her parents were managers of a migrant hostel.〔〔 Geyer describes herself as a problem child,〔 and her parents called her ''übermutig'' (German for reckless).〔 She attended various schools and was expelled from a private school, Methodist Ladies College, for petty stealing.〔 Her first job was as a receptionist for the Australian Law Society.〔 In 1970, at the age of 16,〔 while she was still at Sydney High School,〔 Geyer began her singing career as a vocalist with jazz-blues band Dry Red.〔 This group also contained Eric McCusker of Mondo Rock fame〔Juke Magazine, 22 October 1983 page 11〕 For her audition she sang The Bee Gees' hit "To Love Somebody".〔 She soon left Dry Red for other bands including the more accomplished jazz-rock group Sun.〔 Sun consisted of Geyer, George Almanza (piano), Henry Correy (bass guitar), Garry Nowell (drums), Keith Shadwick (sax, flute, clarinet, vocals) and Chris Sonnenberg (guitar).〔〔 The group released one album, ''Sun 1972'' in August 1972, Geyer had already departed in mid-1972 and later joined Mother Earth whose R&B/soul music style was more in keeping with Geyer's idiom.〔 Mother Earth consisted of Geyer, Jim Kelly (guitar), David Lindsay (bass guitar), John Proud (drums) and Mark Punch (guitar, vocals).〔 RCA, who had released Sun's album,〔 then signed Geyer to a solo contract; however, when it came time to record her first solo album, Geyer, already showing signs of her self-proclaimed "Difficult Woman" tag, loyally insisted that Mother Earth back her on the album.〔 Her first solo release in September 1973 was the eponymous ''Renée Geyer'',〔〔 which mostly consisted of R&B/Soul cover versions of overseas hits and was produced by Gus McNeil.〔〔 Geyer left Mother Earth by the end of the year.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Renée Geyer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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