Background
Born as Dulcie Rama Pitt, her father was of Jamaican descent and her mother was Indian, Australian Aboriginal, Islander and Scottish.
Born as Dulcie Rama Pitt, her father was of Jamaican descent and her mother was Indian, Australian Aboriginal, Islander and Scottish.
After the war she took the name Georgia Lee and moved south to work in the cities and later in the United Kingdom. She performed and recorded with many artists and bands including Graeme Bell, Geraldo, Bruce Clarke, Portuguese Jackson Jazz Band, George Trevare and the Max Williams Quintet. and toured with National King Cole. She performed on television on Graham Kennedy"s In Melbourne Tonight and Bandstand
Lee is credited with being the first Indigenous Australian artist to record blues songs.
Her 1962 album Georgia Lee Sings the Blues Down Under may have been only the second album to be released by an Australian woman and was the first Australian album recorded in stereo.
Arranged by Brian Martin, the album features Raphael Melevende on trumpet (1933-2015), Jack Glenn on trombone, Alec Hutchison on clarinet and tenor sax, Ron Rosenberg on piano, John Frederick on bass, Horrie Weems on guitar and Alan Turnbull playing drums. In 2009 it was added to the National Film and Sound Archive"s Sounds of Australia registry.
Lee died on 23 April 2010, aged 89, in a Cairns nursing home.