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Billboard magazine, 24 Oct. 1970, p.63.
Judith Durham Judith Durham i(A123394 works by) (birth name: Judith Mavis Cock)
Born: Established: 3 Jul 1943 Essendon, Essendon area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria, ; Died: Ceased: 5 Aug 2022 Prahran, South Yarra - Glen Iris area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Lead singer for the Australian folk group the Seekers, the first Australian pop group to have major success in the UK and US.

Durham left the group in 1968 to pursue a solo career. From 1993, she returned sporadically to perform and record with the Seekers, but retained her solo career.

Born in Essendon, she moved to Tasmania with her family in 1949, and attended the Fahan School, before returning to Melbourne and completing her studies at Ruyton Girls' School. She enrolled in an Associate of Music in classical piano at RMIT, where she met her Seekers bandmates.

The enormous success of the Seekers saw them named Australians of the Year in 1967.

Durham and her husband, British pianist Ron Edgeworth, lived in the UK and Switzerland until the mid 1980s, when they moved to Nambour, Queensland.

Durham died in 2022, after suffering from the chronic lung disease bronchiectasis.

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The Seekers
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