Tracy Bartram

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Tracy Bartram (born 1959, London, UK) is an Australian comedian, radio personality and jazz singer. Although born in the UK, she grew up and resides in Melbourne, Australia.

She began performing stand-up comedy in the mid-1980’s while working in sales and marketing. Her first gig was a ten minute stand-up comedy stint at the Hilton Hotel.

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[edit] Career

[edit] Radio

In 1994, Bartram joined Perth station 94.5FM and, worked as a double act with Fred Botica. After three years she moved to Melbourne’s Fox FM and co-hosted the breakfast programme with Matt Tilley. During her time as a broadcaster she interviewed Susan Sarandon Kristen Davies, Anastacia, Ronan Keating, Matt Damon and Sophie Ellis Bextor. After a break from radio from 2003, she joined the MIX 101.1FM team in March 2006 with the Tracy and Tim for Breakfast show (with Tim Smith). Tracy & Tim finished at Mix 1011 at the end of November 2007.

[edit] Television

Bartram has also dabbled into television. First spotted in 1993 by producers of Perth's daytime TV show, Jenny Seaton Live and Mad About Movies, she was given regular comic reporting spots on those shows. She was also, more recently, a regular panellist on Beauty and the Beast, and occasionally on others such as Good Morning Australia and Rove Live.

[edit] Live shows

Bartram has written and produced her own shows. In 1990 she launched "My Life Through the Eyes of a 60’s Child", followed in 1992 by "Lipstick on the Wattle" and in 1993 by "Tracy Bartram After Dark". She's performed in other shows that she's written such as "Six Foot Silly and Sexy" (Adelaide, Melbourne & Perth), "Six Foot Silly and Six Months Pregnant" (Edinburgh Fringe) and "Discovering My Roots", a musical performance backed by a seven piece band.

She tries her hand at just about anything – singer, dancer, actor and comedian. There really isn't anything that she'll won't do in her quest to attract attention or be center stage. In 2003 after leaving Fox FM, she spent the next two years playing in "Minefields and Miniskirts" and then she wrote her latest show, "Illegally Blonde", which went to Edinburgh in 2004, she's even been active as a corporate speaker. "Illegally Blonde", premiered at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and is now is schelping round various venues in Regional Victoria in June 2006.

Bartram also performs jazz shows with a live band, singing assorted cover versions of jazz and contemporary classics. Her performances have been described as "toe curling" and have to be witnessed to be believed.

[edit] Personal life

Bartram runs a business named Serious Laughter – the mission of which is to change people’s lives through laughter. She is also a campaigner for animal and children’s rights – she is a patron for The Australian Childhood Foundation and, now in its 6th year, organises the very successful "Celebrity Garage Sale" each year.

In June 2005, in light of the "not guilty" verdict handed to Michael Jackson on charges of sexual abuse of children, Bartram wrote an article in the Sunday Herald Sun, revealing that as a young girl, she had been sexually abused by a man whom she trusted.

Bartram is married with one son.

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