Biography
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Born
3 July 1943
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Born In
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Died
5 August 2022 (aged 79)
Judith Durham AO (born Judith Mavis Cock on 3 July 1943; died 5 August 2022) was an Australian singer and musician who became the lead vocalist for the Australian pop-folk music group The Seekers in 1963. The group subsequently became the first Australian pop music group to achieve major chart and sales success in the United Kingdom and the United States, and as of 2004 had sold over 50 million records.
Durham left the group in mid-1968 to pursue her solo career. In 1993, Durham began to make sporadic recordings and performances with The Seekers, though she remained primarily a solo performer.
On 1 July 2015, she was named Victorian of the Year for her services to music and a range of charities.
Durham was born with asthma and at age four she caught measles, which left her with a life-long chronic lung disease, bronchiectasis. Durham died from the disease at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne on 5 August 2022, at age 79.
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