Chrissie Hammond
| Cheetah | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Genres | Pop rock |
| Years active | 1976–1984, 2006 |
| Labels | Philips, Albert/EMI |
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Cheetah were an Australian pop rock band active between 1976 and 1984.
The mainstay members and co-lead vocalists were English-born sisters, Chrissie and Lyndsay Hammond. They released a solo album, Rock & Roll Women, in April 1982. The band's single, "Walking in the Rain" (1978), peaked at No. 10 on the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart.
Cheetah toured Australia, the United Kingdom and continental Europe including appearances at Roskilde in Denmark, the Nuremberg and Wiesbaden Festivals in Germany and at the 1982 Reading Festival with Iron Maiden to an audience of 120,000 people. From 1982 they were based in the UK.
After disbanding in 1984, Chrissie provided vocals for Rick Wakeman while Lyndsay issued a solo album, The Raven (1997). Cheetah reformed in 2006 to perform in the Countdown Spectacular and a subsequent tour of Europe.
Australian musicologist Ian McFarlane opined that the sisters "were the archetypal 1970s sex bombs with big hair. They had tremendous, booming rock voices and were in constant demand as session vocalists."
Cheetah were an Australian pop rock band formed in 1976 in Melbourne by English-born sisters, Chrissie (born ca. 1956) and Lyndsay Hammond (born ca. 1954). The Hammond family had emigrated to Australia in 1958. From 1974 Lyndsay fronted a group, Skintight, for three years and toured backing Renée Geyer before forming Cheetah. The name was chosen as they "wanted a feline image", it was "seen as a bit racy, not right." They "adopted a sensual approach to singing and modelled their clothes on the title of Lyndsay's old band."
Chrissie was a member of a group, Eli Flash, prior to undertaking the role of Mary Magdalene, from May 1975, in the second Australian musical theatre production of Jesus Christ Superstar. There she met Russell Hitchcock and Graham Russell. With Chrissie and Hitchcock on lead vocals and Russell on guitar, they formed a harmony vocal group, Air Supply in Melbourne, while the show was still running. Chrissie left Air Supply in 1976. Both sisters were session vocalists for Australia-based artists including Jo Jo Zep, Jon English, Marc Hunter and Flash and the Pan. They also worked as a vocal duo backing Stevie Wright, Norman Gunston and Daryl Braithwaite.
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