'Shining star': Tributes flow for folk icon Judith Durham, lead singer of The Seekers, dead at 79

Seekers members Keith Potger and Athol Guy kiss Judith Durham on the cheek while celebrating her 70th birthday in the Epworth Hospital in Melbourne, Wednesday, 3 July 2013.Tributes have flowed for folk music icon and much-loved Australian entertainer Judith Durham, who died in Melbourne aged 79.

Durham embarked on a solo career in 1968 but recorded with The Seekers again in the 1990s. In 2015, she was honoured as Victorian of the Year.Her bandmates - Keith Potger, Bruce Woodley and Athol Guy - said their lives had been changed forever by losing "our treasured lifelong friend and shining star".

"Judith's joy for life, her constant optimism, creativity and generosity of spirit were always an inspiration to me," Ms Sheehan said. "Judith Durham gave voice to a new strand of our identity and helped blaze a trail for a new generation of Aussie artists," Mr Albanese said on Twitter on Saturday night.Durham gained international fame with upbeat hits like "Georgy Girl" and a series of covers and collaborations with the likes of Paul Simon.

"Durham demonstrated in song after song, concert after concert, how the human voice can reach, and move, every one of us," Mr Dutton said in a statement.Victorian Premier Dan Andrews said the Essendon-born musician "went on to conquer the music world both here in Australia and overseas". The second daughter of World War Two airman William Cock and his wife Hazel gained a music degree studying classical piano at Melbourne University after returning from Hobart, where the family lived for seven years in the 1950s.

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