Deborah Conway’s diverse career encompasses recording, performing, composing and acting. Her trademark entrepreneurial spirit has forged innovative collaborations of variety and depth. Deborah has been serving as the Artistic Director of Queensland Music Festival since 2008.

She has been a prominent member of the Australian music scene ever since her first band Do Re Mi topped the charts in 1985 with the single Man Overboard and album, Domestic Harmony.

Deborah’s first solo album String of Pearls (1991), reached platinum sales, the second, Bitch Epic (1993), achieved gold sales. This was her debut collaboration with Willy Zygier. They went on to make Ultrasound (1995) a band project with the late Paul Hester of Crowded House; My Third Husband (1997) written and recorded in London; Exquisite Stereo (2000) featuring a duet with Neil FinnPC – The Songs Of Patsy Cline (2001), Only The Bones (best of, 2002) and Summertown (2006).

Deborah has also made high profile screen and stage detours along the way: director Peter Greenaway (Draughtsman's Contract) cast her in his film Prospero's Books as the goddess Juno, singing the score by Michael NymanPete Townshend of The Who cast her in his musical, The Iron Man, alongside Nina Simone and John Lee Hooker; and Geoffrey Rush directed her in his Belvoir Street theatre production of Aristophanes Frogs alongside Toni Collette. In 2001, Deborah starred as the title role in Always… Patsy Cline, touring nationally to rave reviews.

In 2005 Deborah produced Broad, a stage show exploring the extraordinary talents of Australia’s key female singer–songwriters such as Katie Noonan, Clare Bowditch, Sara Storer and Ruby Hunter. Broad became part of the national musical calendar, with annual sell out shows across the country.

The last few years have seen a increase in the scope of her collaborative work, from writing with classical composer George Dreyfus, to recording with Brisbane band george; from appearing with Paul Grabowsky and the Australian Art Orchestra to reinterpreting Paul Kelly for the Women At The Well compilation.

In May 2010 Conway & Zygier launched their 9^thstudio album Half Man Half Woman, recorded in Melbourne with producer James Black. It is another passionate and accomplished singer/songwriter album that chronicles love in the middle ages, life in the 21^stcentury and the human condition of now, then and what will be. It’s an album that gives equal weight to an eight-minute rant, a ninety second instrumental miniature and a song sung by their three young daughters and marks the next chapter of the half man half woman Conway Zygier project.

Visit Deborah Conway's website http://www.deborahconway.com/