Vale Wendy Saddington

The respected Australian blues, jazz and soul singer died on Saturday following a battle with oesophageal cancer.

25 Jun 2013 12:00

Richard Watts

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Performing Arts

The respected Australian blues, jazz and soul singer died on Saturday 22 June following a battle with oesophageal cancer.

Born in 1949, Wendy Saddington was a well known figure on the Australian music scene in the 1960s and 1970s, though few good recordings of her performing at her peak exist today.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the 2019 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in early 2020. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association in 2021, and a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Photo: Fiona Hamilton. Follow Richard on Bluesky @richardthewatts.bsky.social and Instagram @richard.l.watts