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Occupation(s)
  
Singer

Name
  
Jo Lawry


Role
  
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Albums
  
Waiting for the Angel, Taking Pictures, I Want to Be Happy

Similar People
  
Lisa Fischer, Judith Hill, Jimmy Nail, Darlene Love, Sting

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Jo Lawry is an Australian singer and musician. Lawry's debut album, I Want to Be Happy, was released in 2008. Down Beat magazine gave it 4.5 out of 5 and selected it as one of the "Best CDs of the 2000s".

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Music career

Lawry was raised on an almond farm in South Australia. She studied jazz at Adelaide University and the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. In 2004, she reached the semi-finals in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition, and the following year got second in the National Jazz Awards of Australia. In New York City, she met jazz pianist Fred Hersch and became a member of his Pocket Orchestra. She was also a member of James Shipp's Nos Novo, a jazz quartet for which she sang and played fiddle, mandolin, and melodica.

In 2009, she began working with Sting, when she won an audition to tour with him. Soon after, she sang on his DVD, A Winter's Night... Live from Durham Cathedral, and toured with him through 2015. She sang on the Live in Berlin album and DVD and on The Last Ship album and DVD. On her first album, I Want to Be Happy (2008), she sang a cover version of his song, "Until". They sang a duet on the song "Impossible" from her second album, Taking Pictures (2015).

Lawry is featured in the documentary film 20 Feet from Stardom.

She is married to Will Vinson, a saxophonist from London.

Discography

  • I Want to Be Happy (CD Baby/Fleurieu, 2008)
  • Taking Pictures (2015)
  • Waiting for the Angel (Audio & Video Labs/Miranda, 2015)
  • With Sting

  • 2010 Live in Berlin
  • 2010 Symphonicities
  • 2011 25 Years
  • 2011 The Best of 25 Years
  • 2013 The Last Ship
  • With others

  • 2009 Live at Jazz Standard, Fred Hersch
  • 2009 Rise Up!, Lonnie Smith
  • 2011 Mad Heaven, Peter Eldridge
  • 2012 The Multiple Personality Reunion Tour, Guy Klucevsek
  • 2013 20 Feet from Stardom
  • 2016 Midnight. Hallelujah, Jonatha Brooke
  • References

    Jo Lawry Wikipedia