Biography
SALLY STREET - SINGER - SONGWRITER - ACTRESS - PRODUCER
Sally Street is one of Australia's leading independent female singer songwriters in the pop, jazz-pop and rock genres.
Sally Street's single "Lexi" which she co-produced and co-wrote with her pianist Gerard Masters was second place in the pop category of the 2011 Great American Song Contest, Sally's original funky blues track "Facebook Freak" was a finalist in the 2010 Great American Song Contest and "Balloons Are Blowing In The Air" which she also co-wrote with Gerard Masters was also a finalist in APRA's 2010 Australian Songwriting Competition.
Sally's music is regularly aired across community and internet radio in Australia. Sally has released 3 studio albums and 3 singles to date. Her 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. "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.
"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 Sally opening the Tanjazz Festival in Tangier, Morocco, was a headline act for 7 weeks at the Venetian Casino in Macau China in 2008, opened the 2010 Sydney Multicultural Festival, 2011 Dubbo Jazz Festival, both the 2011 and 2012 Every Woman Festival (a celebration of International Women's Day), 2012 River Rhythms Concert Series at Sydney Olympic Park, 2008 Kings Cross Festival, 2009 Newcastle Jazz Festival, and regularly performs at Sydney's iconic music venues including 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.
"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
DISCOGRAPHY:
27 March 2012 "Chocolate Bliss", Live recording. Single (indie release)
Jazzy Blues song written by Sally Street and James Muller. Featuring Sally Street (vocals), Gerard Masters (piano), James Muller (guitar), Alex Hewetson (bass), Adrian Cunningham (sax) and Fabian Hevia (percussion). Produced by Sally Street. Mixed by Helik Hadar in L.A. Recorded live at the Every Woman Festival, Blue Beat, Sydney, 8 March 2012.
Nov 2011 "Lexi", Single (indie release).
Funky Pop song written by Sally Street and Gerard Masters. 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)
17 Feb 2011, "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.
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