1. Deborah Ann Conway was born on 8 August 1959 and is an Australian rock singer-songwriter and guitarist, and had a career as a model and actress.
29 Facts About Deborah Conway
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Deborah Conway was a founding member of the 1980s rock band Do-Re-Mi with their top-5 hit "Man Overboard".
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Deborah Conway won the ARIA Award for Best Female Artist at the 1992 awards.
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Deborah Ann Conway was born on 8 August 1959 in Melbourne, Victoria.
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Deborah Conway's father Carl was a lawyer, entrepreneur, realtor and stockbroker in Toorak.
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Deborah Conway started Media Studies at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology but left in 1979.
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At the age of 18, Deborah Conway started playing guitar, and in 1980 she joined the Benders as a vocalist whilst still at university.
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Deborah Conway's father was so concerned when she joined the pop band that he sent her to a psychiatrist.
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Deborah Conway had minor roles in the films Mallacoota Stampede and Hard Knocks.
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Deborah Conway played the lead role of "Julie" in an Australian teenage road movie called Running on Empty, which was released in 1982.
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In late 1983, Deborah Conway supplied vocals for actor Tracy Mann's singing in the ABC Television series Sweet and Sour, including the hit title song, "Sweet and Sour".
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Deborah Conway sang lead vocals on half the songs and backing vocals on almost all the rest.
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Deborah Conway had a minor role in The Coca-Cola Kid.
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In 1990, Deborah Conway formed Drawcards as a semi-acoustic band with Vika and Linda, Stephen Cummings, Dror Erez, Tim Finn, Ross Hannaford, Peter Jones, Shane O'Mara and Chris Wilson.
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In 1991, Deborah Conway played Juno in Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books, singing a setting of William Shakespeare's masque from The Tempest to music by Michael Nyman.
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The cover features an upper body shot of a topless Deborah Conway, covered in Nutella and cream, as she is about to eat a slice of cake thereby illustrating the concept of Gluttony for ABC TV mini-series Seven Deadly Sins.
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Deborah Conway's backing band were Zygier, Harding, McDonald and Hughie Benjamin on drums.
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Deborah Conway recorded a new album My Third Husband with Dave Anderson producing and, after returning to Australia in mid-1997, it was released in October 1997.
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In May 2000, Deborah Conway released her fourth studio album, Exquisite Stereo, on Shock Records.
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Deborah Conway supported the release by touring as Deborah Conway and the Patsy Clones which contained Zygier and Reynolds, and Gerry Hale.
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Deborah Conway performed Dreaming Transportation: Voice Portraits of the First Women of White Settlement at Port Jackson which was scripted and directed by Andree Greenwell.
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Brisbane group, george, recorded Do-Re-Mi's hit single "Man Overboard", with Deborah Conway providing vocals, on their 2004 single "Still Real".
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In 2005, Deborah Conway provided vocals for Man Bites God's single "Bride of the Dragon" from their album The Popular Alternative.
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From 2005 to 2008, Deborah Conway collaborated with different female artists to tour Australia as part of the Broad Festival project.
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In 2008, Deborah Conway was appointed artistic director of the Queensland Music Festival, which runs biennially in late July in odd-numbered years.
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On 3 October 2023, Deborah Conway published her memoir, Book of Life.
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In 1996, a portrait of Deborah Conway as Medusa, painted by Rosemary Valadon, was a finalist in the Archibald Prize.
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Deborah Conway was in a relationship with Paul Hester before he moved to Los Angeles in 1985.
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Deborah Conway is married to guitarist and musical collaborator Willy Zygier.