Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 48. Chapters: Hayley Westenra, Jenny Morris, Kiri Te Kanawa, Lucy Lawless, Dinah Lee, Ladyhawke, Brooke Fraser, Bic Runga, Gin Wigmore, Anika Moa, Aaradhna, Sharon O'Neill, Margaret Urlich, Meryl Cassie, Annie Crummer, Lisa Chappell, Heather Begg, Yulia MacLean, Elizabeth Marvelly, Wing, Hollie Smith, Moana, Allison Durbin, Megan Alatini, Michala Banas, Frances Alda, Marie Te Hapuku, Malvina Major, Boh Runga, Kimbra, Whirimako Black, Annie Whittle, Alannah Currie, Joe Cotton, Shona Laing, Carly Binding, Jordan Reyne, Ruby Frost, Erakah, Rosita Vai, Zowie, Eliza Keil, Anna Leese, Carla Werner, Tessa Rain, K'lee, Mahinarangi Tocker, Atareta Maxwell, Beaver, Suzanne Lynch, Jackie Clarke, Ramon Te Wake, Mina Foley, Moana Ete, Gina Sanders, Jodi Vaughn, Fiona McDonald, Anna Coddington, Maria Dallas, MC Tali, Rosina Buckman, Ana James, Suzanne Prentice. Excerpt: Jenny Patricia Morris OAM is a New Zealand-born Australian pop, rock singer-songwriter who was born in 1956. Her first success came with New Zealand band The Crocodiles, who had a top 20 hit single with "Tears". Re-locating to Sydney, Australia in February 1981, she was a backing vocalist for various groups and formed a trio, QED, in 1983. Morris provided backing vocals for INXS on their 1983 album, The Swing, she then recorded a duet with lead singer, Michael Hutchence, on a cover of Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood's hit "Jackson", it was included as a bonus track on the April 1984 (cassette only) INXS EP, Dekadance, which reached number two on the Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart. Morris worked on their 1985¿1986 Listen Like Thieves World Tour. Her solo career includes top five Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Albums with Shiver in 1989 and Honeychild in 1991, and her top five ARIA Singles are "She Has to Be Loved" and "Break in the Weather". These albums and singles also peaked in the top ten on the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand (RIANZ) charts. Morris has won two ARIA Music Awards for 'Best Female Artist' in 1987 and 1988 and was nominated for the same award in 1992. In 2003, on Australia Day (26 January), Morris became an Australian citizen and in 2010 she received the Order of Australia. Jennifer "Jenny" Patricia Morris was born in Tokoroa, New Zealand (29 September 1956) and grew up in Hamilton with three brothers (Alistair, Rhys and Tam) and four sisters (Maxine, Bronte, Joanne and Shanley). Morris wrote a poem on the Vietnam War when she was 12 and used her sister's guitar to put it to music. Morris has stated that her influences include Aretha Franklin and Dusty Springfield. Her first professional performance was at age fifteen, at Andersons Theatre Restaurant, in Hamilton. In 1976 she became a singer with How's Your Father, who were finalists in the 'National Battle of the Bands'. She began working as a Home Economi
