Recognised as one of Australia’s
finest singers, Lily Dior has shared the stage with a remarkable list of
outstanding musicians from Australia and around the world and has performed at
many of Australia's best venues including The Opera House Concert Hall,
The State Theatre, Sydney Town Hall and The Domain. A finalist at The National
Jazz Awards she is also an experienced radio personality and host of The
Freedman Fellowship Jazz Awards. 

The daughter of professional musicians who
met and married in London, Lily spent her first five years touring the world
with her parents who then settled in Australia. Returning to her roots in 2014,
Lily has spent the last year in London building her reputation and has already
established herself as an in demand performer appearing at  iconic jazz
venues such as Ronnie Scott’s, The 606 Club and Pizza Express Soho.

Discovered by the late great Jackie
Orszaczky as a teenager, performing a show she wrote and produced on the life of
Billie Holiday, Lily became a seminal member of Sydney’s hottest Soul/Funk
outfit, ‘The Godmothers’, wowing audiences with her electric stage presence and
powerful voice.

"If you see only one local band this year,
make sure you catch this shimmering and wonderful soul funk act” (Bruce Elder,
SMH)

Her debut album ‘Invitation’ released by
the ABC, received universal praise and put Lily firmly on the Australian music
map. "She can belt out a song, dramatize a lyric, swing hard and earthy,
flirt, sing a tender song - Lily can 'tell a story'." (Jim McLeod, ABC)

Lily has performed at major festivals
including Sydney Festival, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Wellington
International Jazz Festival, Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Bellingen Jazz
Festival, Christchurch Jazz Festival, Thredbo Jazz Festival, Darling Harbour
Jazz Festival, Jazz in The Vines, Jazz in The Gardens and the Wangaratta
Festival of Jazz where she placed second at The National Jazz Awards led by a
panel of international judges including Kurt Elling, Laurence Hobgood, and
Sheila Jordan.

Awarded a grant in 2000, Lily traveled to
New York to study with jazz legend Mark Murphy, and was invited to perform at
one of his rare appearances. That same year, she was singled out by legendary
arranger/pianist Dave Matthews to perform with The Manhattan Jazz Quintet,
which included Bill Evans, Charnett Moffatt, Victor Lewis, and Lew Soloff, at
Sydney Casino’s Lyric Theatre.

A featured artist in ‘Testimony’, an
audio-visual spectacular based on the life of Charlie Parker. with music by
Sandy Evans and performed by the Australian Art Orchestra, the show received
glowing reviews, "one of the most memorable festival shows in Sydney for a very
long time” (Keith Gallash, Real Time); "a show which truly belongs on the world
stage” (Patrick McDonald,The Advertiser), "Lily Dior presided like a pagan
priestess over the last rites” (John Shand, SMH)

Invited to sing with Brazilian guitarist
Oscar Castro Neves and his all star band for ‘Noite Brasil’ at Sydney’s Jazz in
the Domain, Lily performed to an audience of 100,000 people with some of the
world’s greatest jazz and latin artists including Airto Moriera, Alex Acuna,
Abraham Laboriel, Don Grusin and Gary Meeks. "Lily Dior has never sounded
better than she did joining the magic for How Insensitive and, later in
the  night, Dindi, a charming duet with Castro Neves’s nylon string
guitar.” (John Shand, SMH)

Lily has built a solid reputation overseas
with performances in New York, New Zealand, Japan, Singapore, Shanghai and Hong
Kong and has shared the stage with a who’s who of world-class musicians
including Paul Grabowsky; Don Grusin; Dale Barlow; Mike Nock; Dave Matthews;
Alister Spence; Oscar Castro Neves; The Bays (UK); and James
Morrison. She’s been featured on TV and Radio programs including ABC’s
‘The Pulse’, the James O’Lochlan Show; ABC’s Arts program; as well as live
performance broadcasts for the ABC and Eastside Radio.

Lily became involved in radio as a
teenager, and has hosted a show on Sydney’s premiere jazz station ‘Eastside
Radio’ for over ten years. Her program ‘Voices’ has featured interviews with
leading Australian and International artists including Ron Carter, Kurt Elling,
Marcos Valle, Cassandra Wilson, Theo Bleckman, Ricky Peterson, Dee Dee Bridgewater,
Norma Winstone, Katie Noonan, Lulo Reinhart, The Idea Of North, Vika Bull, Abby
Dobson, Lara Goodridge, Fred Wesley, James Valentine and Vince Jones.