Renée Rebecca Geyer was an Australian singer who has long been regarded as one of the finest exponents of jazz, soul, and R&B idioms.
She had commercial success as a solo artist in Australia, with “It’s a Man’s Man’s World”, “Heading in the Right Direction” and “Stares and Whispers” in the 1970s and “Say I Love You” in the 1980s. Geyer was also an internationally respected and sought-after backing vocalist, whose session credits include work with Sting, Chaka Khan, Toni Childs, and Joe Cocker.
How old is Renee Geyer?
Renée Geyer is 69 years of age at the time of her death and she was born on September 11, 1953, in Melbourne, Australia to a Hungarian-Jewish father, Edward Geyer, and a Slovak-Jewish mother, a Holocaust survivor, as the youngest of three children.
Geyer was named Renée after another Holocaust survivor who had helped her mother in Auschwitz after Josef Mengele had assigned the rest of her mother’s family to death.
At a young age, the Geyers moved to Sydney where her parents were managers of a migrant hostel. Geyer described herself as a problem child, and her parents called her übermutig (German for “reckless”).
She attended various schools and was expelled from a private school, Methodist Ladies College, for petty stealing. Her first job was as a receptionist for the Australian Law Society.
Source: Ghanafuo.com
