Deborah Conway

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Deborah Conway is an Australian rock singer and songwriter who became well known in the 1980s rock band Do-Re-Mi with their surprise hit Man Overboard. Do-Re-Mi went on to record two albums and a batch of singles. While they were working in England, Deborah was involved in the Pete Townshend's project The Iron Man. Shortly afterwards she recorded an album of dance music in Los Angeles. This album was never released. In 1991, she played Juno in Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books, singing a setting of William Shakespeare's masque from The Tempest to music by Michael Nyman.

Deobrah played the role of "Julie", in an Australian teenage road movie called Running on Empty, which was released in 1982.

In 1991 she released her first solo album, the folky String of Pearls, which won an ARIA award for Best Female Performer. Teaming up with partner Willy Zygier they released her second album Bitch Epic in 1993.

After making the experimental Ultrasound album with Willy Zygier, Bill McDonald and Paul Hester she went to live in England with Willy and their newborn daughter Syd. They returned to Australia in 1997 with a new album My Third Husband, a dark and brooding album.

In 2000 they released her fourth record, Exquisite Stereo, with the band City of Women. This was much more of a rock record than previous releases. Following this Deborah played the lead in the Australian production of Always...Patsy Cline and recorded an album of Patsy Cline songs to go with this.

Summertown, her fifth album of her own music, was released in 2004 and has a 60s folk-pop sound to it.