Joy McKean
Sign in to saveAlso known as Mildred Geraldine Joy McKean, Mildred Geraldine Joy Kirkpatrick
Australian singer, songwriter (1930–2023)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- I've Been There (And Back Again) Slim Dusty & Joy McKean's Lifetime Of Travel, Stories And Songs
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- Australia
- Active from
- 1930-01-14
- Active to
- 2023-05-25
countrysinger-songwriter
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 394
- Total plays
- 2,148
Tags
countryaustralian
Joy McKean (born Mildred Geraldine Joy McKean in Singleton, New South Wales, on 14 January 1930; died 25 May 2023) was an Australian country music singer-songwriter and, at one time, the wife and manager of Slim Dusty. The mother of country musicians Anne Kirkpatrick and David Kirkpatrick, she recorded as McKean Sisters (with sister Heather McKean) and as Slim Dusty & Joy McKean (with her then husband) as well as her own recordings. McKean, known as the Queen of Australian country music <a hr
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Joy
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Place of birth
- Singleton
- Place of death
- Australia
- Spouse
- Slim Dusty
- Occupation
- songwriter
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Instrument
- voice
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- birth name
- Mildred Geraldine Joy McKean
- date of birth
- 1930-01-14
- Commons category
- Joy McKean
- date of death
- 2023-05-25
- married name
- Mildred Geraldine Joy Kirkpatrick
- cause of death
- cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
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