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Wendy Lee Taylor |
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It is at the age of 5 that this beautiful and tall Australian caught the dancing bug, or rather, of the dances in general. She made her beginnings in musicals like "Mac & Mabel" or "Kiss Me Kate", then left to Japan where she sang and danced in many international productions. On her return to Australia, she thought of finishing her studies of foreign languages at the university, but the show biz did not delay in caughting her in its nets: she was selected to incarnate a tap dancer in "42nd Street" and toured around Asia and Oceania. Her talent enabled her not to be limited to a role of figuration and she finished the tour as a lining of the principal character, Dorothy Brock. Her international career then led to Paris where she joined famous Bluebell Girls of the Lido, a true reference on the matter. As she had fallen in love with the City of Light, it was not a difficult decision to settle there at the end of its contract. Her passion for singing led her to join a trio of vocal jazz recently formed, the Jazzberries. Very international trio since composed, in addition to Wendy, of an English and an American. In three years of career, the three young women played everywhere in France, in various festivals of cinema or jazz, in clubs as famous as the Bilboquet or All That Jazz, and worked with many musicians of which Claude Bolling. In 1999 she left to London to help a girlfriend launch her own musical. During her stay she won the role of Jeanne April in the new musical "Lautrec" written by Charles Aznavour. She had just time to take some lessons of jazz decision with Sara Lazarus in Paris before turning back to England for the season at Shaftsbury Theatre, West End. Today it is in solo that Wendy continues her career, harmoniously marrying the magic of the "Musicals" and complex rhythms of jazz. She can bewitch her public by her natural grace and her incomparable charisma, passing with ease from a shivering version of "Cry has me River" to the traditional ones like "Let's Do It" that she renders with humour and espieglery. One can listen to Wendy almost every evening in the "Lido of Paris" singing with the dance band, and over her rare days of rest one finds her in clubs and jazz festivals in France. |