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Based in: Sydney NSW
Line up(s) available: 2 piece (duo), 3 piece (trio), 4 piece (quartet), 5 piece

The Cat’s Kitchen is available for your wedding, birthday or function. Debra performs with a quartet, and also a duo or trio, in more intimate settings. Her repertoire presents original jazz compositions, and very familiar pop, jazz, folk, blues and show tunes. Debra’s collection of song titles draws from a diverse range of influences that have enabled Debra to create her own unique style.

Debra is a self managed artist. Her professionalism and enthusiasm, is complimented by her warm and honest approach to her music.


Sydney based, vocalist-songwriter Debra Blaquiere has earned a reputation as an independent artist winning over local fans with her uncanny ability to stake new claims on contemporary pop tunes, and interpretations of gorgeous jazz standards. She is a product of our time, and plays respectful homage to those who have influenced her such as Doris Day, Dean Martin, Nat King Cole Trio and the composers both pop and jazz of great American songwriters Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Rodgers and Hart, Joni Mitchell, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Burt Bacharach and many more.

After completing a Bachelor of Science at Macquarie and passing the audition for both UNSW and Jazz Vocal Studies at the Access Centre Conservatorium of Music Sydney, Debra decided it was time to get out there on the Sydney jazz scene.


Awards:

First and Third- Jazz and blues category of the Australian National Song Writer’s Association 2004
Seventh Place- Jazz and blues category 2005

 
Recordings:

  • Single “This Time We Say Good-Bye” (1998)
  • Album “Getting to Know Me” (Paradise Studios by Jason Lea & John Morrison 1999)
  • Single “Love’s Dance” (Australian Institute of Music 2000)
  • Album “little wing” (Move Records 2002)
  • Album “Credo” (Recorded by John Morrison 2005)
  • Album “Let the Sunshine In” (Groovetown 2007)

Debra recorded ‘Little Wing’ an album full of tried and true jazz standards, fashioned around the singular theme of Angels. The songs on ‘Little Wing’ range from the haunting to the sexy with measures of whimsy and romance. The mood shifts from the humour of the upbeat “And the Angels Sing” to the dark shadowy “Close to You” to the lush beauty and personal lyrics “If Wishes were Kisses”

Debra has previously recorded two singles ‘This Time We Say Good-bye’ (1999) and ‘Love’s Dance’ with a very moving 5/4 piano solo played by the song’s composer Jeremy Challender and one independent full-length album ‘Getting to Know Me’

The most recent recording ‘Credo’ will be available in a few weeks.


Appearances & Residencies:

Waverton Bowling Club
Nix Café Piano Bar, Crows Nest
Epoque Belgium Beer Bar, Cammeray
La Lupa Restaurant, Balmain
Paddington Bowling Club
Woolwich Pier Hotel
No1 Queen’s Place, Balmain
Friend in Hand Hotel, Glebe
Harbord Beach Hotel
Soup Plus, Sydney (with Debra Blaquiere quartet, Simmer and Sorcerer)
Satchmo’s Katoomba
Woolloomooloo Bay Hotel, Sydney
Longueville Hotel, Lane Cove
Harbouside Brasserie, Sydney
Radisson Hotel, Sydney
Wentworthville Leagues Club (with Glen Heinrich Trio)
Kirribilli Ex-Serviceman’s Club (with Janet Seidel Trio, Bob Barnard, Judy Bailey’s High School Band)
Icebox, Kings Cross (with Deep Lounge)
Exchange Hotel, Balmain
Steyne Hotel Manly
Norfolk Hotel, Sydney (Bill Dudley’s New Orleans Band)
Kent Hotel, Newcastle (with Neville Ewer Trio)
Chicago the Musical : Ashfield Musical Society
Harbourview Hotel North Sydney

Just a sample of the songlist...

 

 

 

Swing

 

ain't misbehavin'

Sarah Vaughan

all of me

Billie Holiday

all or nothing at all

Diana Krall

all the things you are

Kern / Hammerstein

alone together

Howard Dietz/Arthur Schwartz

And the angels sing

Johnny Mercer / Ziggie Elman

as time goes by

Huppfield

autumn leaves

Kosma / Mercer

baby just cares for me

Nina Simone

baby won't you please come home

Warfield / Williams

blue moon

Julie London

blue skies

Eva Cassidy

bye, bye blackbird

Dixon / Henderson

call me

Frank Sinatra

call me irresponsible

Julie London

can't help lovin' dat man

Kern / Hammerstein

come fly with me

Cahn / Van Heusen

cheek to cheek

Ella Fitzgerald

come rain or come shine

Harold Arlen

Comes Love

Lew Brown

Detour ahead

Ella Fitzgerald

Do nothing til you hear from me

Duke Ellington

Don’t get around much anymore

Connick Jr

dream a little dream of me

Kahn, Schwandt, Andre

easy living

Billie Holiday

fascinating rhythm

Gershwin / Gershwin

Fever

Peggy Lee

for once in my life

Frank Sinatra

 

 

Waltz

 

baubles, bangles and beads

Borodin / Wright / Forrest

carried away

Graham Nash

how deep is the ocean

Irving Berlin

I’ll always be in love with you

Bud Green/ Ruby/ Stept

laugh! Clown! Laugh!

Fiorito/Lewis/Young

Like Some one in love

Van Heusen / Johnny Burke

moon river

Henry Mancini

over the rainbow

Harburg / Arlen

que sera

Holy Cole

she's leaving home

Lennon / Mac Cartney

slow dance

Blaquiere / Mudigdo

what the world needs now

David /Bacarach

yesterdays

Harbach / Kern

 

 

Blues

 

angel bells

 

Blaquiere's Blues (12 bar blues)

Debra Blaquiere

country girl (12 bar blues)

 

fine and mellow

Biliie Holiday

gee baby ain't i good to you

Nat King Cole

i ain't got nothing but the blues

Ella Fitzgerald

reality bites

Debra Blaquiere

Route 66

Nat King Cole

stormy Monday

Eva Cassidy

Willow Weep for me

Ronell

 

 

Originals

 

are you dancing too? (ASA 7th place)

Debra Blaquiere/Didi Mudigdo

ernesto's tune

Debra Blaquiere/Ernesto alcala

if wishes were kisses (ASA 3rd place)

Debra Blaquiere/Jeremy Challender

Little wing

Debra Blaquiere

love's dance (ASA 1st place)

Debra Blaquiere /Jeremy Challender

reality bites

Debra Blaquiere

slow dance

Debra Blaquiere/Didi Mudigdo

the sun is my crown

Debra Blaquiere

this time we say good-bye

Debra Blaquiere/Didi Mudigdo

don't want you gone

Debra Blaquiere/Didi Mudigdo

 

 

Pop

 

alfie

David / Bacarach

and I love him

Lennon / Mc Cartney

angel

Rod Stewart

Close to you

David / Bacarach

crazy

Willie Nelson

day dream

John Sebastian

don't it make my brown eyes blue

Richard Leigh

fair game

Stephen Stills

first time ever I saw your face

Ewan Mac coll

help me make it through the night

Kristofferson

i can see clearly

Holy Cole

if (Hip-hop Groove)

David Gates

Imagine

Lennon / Mc Cartney

i've just seen a face

Holy Cole

light my fire

The Doors

moondance

Van Morrison

My cherie amour

Stevie wonder

 

 

Ballad

 

am i blue

Akst / Clarke

angel eyes

Earl Brent

april in paris

Doris Day

Bewitched

Doris Day

black coffee

Peggy Lee

blame It on My Youth

Julie London

blue gardenia

Russell / Lee

body and soul

John Green

bridge over troubled water

Eva Cassidy

but beautiful

Betty Carte

but not for me

Connick J

close to you

David / Bacarach

cry me a river

Julie London

don't explain

Billie Holiday

 

 

Bossa

 

an ocassional man

Abbey Lincoln

boulevard of broken dreams

Diana Krall

Corvocado

Astrid

Desifinado

Paul Desmond

ernesto's tune

Blaquiere / Alcala

fly me to the moon

Astrid

fool on the hill

Lennon / McCartney

girl from ipanema

Astrid

going out of my head

Brazil 66

how insensitive

Astrid

if i fell Lenon / Mac Cartney

 

in the still of the night

the Peddlers

it might as well be spring

Paul Desmond

nature boy

Ahbez

night and day

Frank Sinatra

once I loved

Astrid

one note samba

Brazil 66

People

the Peddlers

summer samba

Brazil 66

Tenderley

Ella Fitzgerald

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