Di Bird is an Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n jazz vocalist, who performs with her band 'Red Hot and Blue'.

Born in rural New South Wales

New South Wales

New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

, she moved to Sydney

Sydney

Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

 in her late teens. For the next 20 years she pursued a career in pop and rock music.

Beginning her professional singing career in her teens, Di turned to jazz at a relatively late age. Di has played and recorded with some of Australia's jazz greats, such as Graeme Bell

Graeme Bell

Graeme Emerson Bell AO MBE is an Australian Dixieland and classical jazz pianist, composer and band leader...

, Ed Gaston and Dave Panichi

Dave Panichi

Dave Panichi is an Australian jazz musician, trombonist and composer who began his professional musical career in 1975.In 1981 Panichi moved to New York, where he lived for 18 years...

. Di frequently plays throughout Australia, particularly in rural Australia.

Di’s band was voted most popular at the 2003 Noosa Jazz Festival,
and continues to tour throughout Australia and New Zealand http://www.asbjazzfest.co.nz/.