After a lengthy apprenticeship in Wide Mouthed Frogs, The Crocodiles, QED and on backing vocals for INXS, Jenny Morris had massive success as a solo artist in Australia with big selling albums Body And Soul (1987), Shiver (1989) and Honeychild (1991). Shiver sold more than 250,000 copies in Australia.
Born in Tokoroa in 1956, Jenny Morris grew up in Hamilton, where she first performed professionally at the age of 15 before joining How’s Your Father in Auckland, finalists in the Battle of The Bands in 1976.
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Jenny Morris's Songwriter's Choice column for AudioCulture
Nick Bollinger interviews Jenny Morris, 2018
NZ Herald on Jenny Morris, 2018
Radio NZ: Jenny Morris enters the NZ Music Hall of Fame, 2018
Jenny Morris on retiring her voice, 2015
Stephen Stratford remembers How's Your Father
RNZ: Jenny Morris inducted into NZ Music Hall of Fame (October 2018)
Jenny's first band, How's Your Father, also included writer Stephen Stratford and Peter "Lez" White, later of Th'Dudes.
Jenny Morris was named a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to music and charity fundraising in the 2019 New Year’s Honours list.