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Linn Lorkin
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Linn Lorkin sings with New Zealand's premier klezmer band The Jews Brothers Band, as well as performing chansons with French Toast, and her own songs at the piano with her K Rd Quartet. She has had a fabulously interesting career with residencies in Copenhagen, Naples and New York where she played piano bar for eight years 1977-85.
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Residence: Grey Lynn, Auckland
www.pianobarlady.com |
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Linn Lorkin grew up on a dairy-farm near Tokoroa and had her first piano lessons from her mother. Her show-business start came in Europe in the late '60s, where she sang in a low dive in Copenhagen for sailors and prostitutes. She went on to perform in the famous Ronnie Scott's jazz club in London. The height of her career took her to New York where she played nightly in piano bars. There, out of the blue, during her unoccupied days, she began writing her own songs. Back in New Zealand she became one of the most versatile and well-loved performers on the local scene, singing and touring with various cabaret/jazz/roots combos including French Toast and The Jews Brother Band. She has recorded 18 albums and written and performed her own music theatre shows, the most recent being her award-winning ‘Hey, Piano Bar Lady!’
