Edition 1WCMON, 13 FEB 2006, Page 55
Gery Scott;Lives in brief;Obituary;The Register
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Gery Scott, jazz and cabaret singer, was born on October 5, 1923. She died on December 14, 2005, aged 82.
Although Gery Scott became well-known to British audiences during the latter part of the Second World War, when she sang regularly at the BBC with Harry Gold’s Pieces of Eight, and the band led by guitarist Vic Lewis, she achieved most of her fame outside the UK.
Born Dianne Geraldine Whitburn in Bombay, she first recorded in Calcutta for the Indian branch of Columbia before coming to England in 1943. After the war she made headlines in the former Eastern bloc. Signed to the Supraphon label in Czechoslovakia, she sold several million records in the communist world throughout the 1950s, with bands led by local arranger Gustav Brom, and by her second husband, Igo Fischer. She toured the Soviet Union and was invited to sing the jazz anthem, How High the Moon, at the Kiev Opera House to celebrate the launch of Sputnik 1.
Scott moved to London in the early 1960s, where George Martin signed her to Parlophone. In 1980 she decided to settle in Australia, where she remained after the murder of her third husband, the oil magnate Tony Diamond. Her final appearances were in Canberra in October last year.
First published in The Times, February 13, 2006
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