Jamie Redfern Biography
Jamie Redfern is an Australian television presenter, celebrity, and pop singer of English origin. From April 1971 until early 1972, Redfern was a regular on the children’s variety show Young Talent Time before going on tour with Liberace in the United States.
How old is Jamie Redfern? – Age
She is 66 years old as of 9 April 2023. She was born in 1957 in Liverpool, United Kingdom.
Jamie Redfern Family – Education
Redfern has five siblings and was born to Sam and Mary Redfern. The family moved to Melbourne after emigrating to Australia. He was the founder and director of the Australian Showbiz Academy, which operated talent schools in Melbourne’s western suburbs.
Jamie Redfern Wife
Jamie Redfern married Judy, a former dancer, in 1987, and they separated amicably in 2020.
Jamie Redfern Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $5 Million.
Jamie Redfern Young Talent Time
In April 1971, Redfern joined the initial cast of Young Talent Time, an Australian children’s variety show presented by Young and co-produced by Lewis and Young. Hayes served as a judge on the show for a long time. “He came in, he was only 13, 14 or something, and… what a voice,” Young recounted of his appointment to the Young Talent squad without an audition. He’d be able to stand alone and perform a song without any accompaniment. You know, the authentic boy soprano with a huge, powerful voice.” His father, Sam, was his road manager, and his brother, Derek, was a member of the later Young Talent team.
Jamie Redfern Career
He took singing illustrations with US-conceived theater entertainer and artist, Evie Hayes. He made his television debut in 1964 on Brian and the Youngsters, a kids’ assortment ability series, facilitated by Brian Naylor on HSV-7, and stayed with the show until 1970. In 1968 he showed up close by Cheerful Hammond in an early variety TV exhibit for a similar channel. Redfern likewise guested on Happening ’70 (1970) and Happening ’71 (1971), which were co-created by previous pop star, Johnny Youthful, and his partner, Kevin Lewis.
Youthful organized to have Redfern endorsed by Celebration Records, which gave his presentation single in 1971. It was a cover form of “The Little White Cloud”, which crested in the Go-Set Public Top 60. It was recorded as a component of his presentation collection, When You Send up a little prayer to Heaven (1971), at T.C.S. Studios, Melbourne, with Youthful as record-maker. The collection crested at No. 16 in a hurry Set Top 20. At the television Week Ruler of Pop Honors for 1971, he won the Exceptional Newbie classification, which was introduced by visiting US performer, Liberace. His subsequent single, “When You Send Up a little prayer to Heaven” (1971) arrived at the Go-Set Top 40 in February of the next year. Toward the finish of 1971, Redfern was named “Most Remarkable Newbie” in the television Week Lord of Pop Function.
In mid-1972 Redfern visited the US with his tutor, Liberace. He was depicted by Australian Ladies’ Week after Week’s Dita Cobb as “an exquisite difference to the neighborhood result of his age. Americans revere him. He is so new and interesting and genuine and out and out youthful. Nothing appears to have gone to his head.” Redfern recalled his initial US exhibitions, “lt was perfect… I was anxious from the beginning. I got melodies all mixed up the band was playing different music from what I was singing. However, it was before long fixed, and I cherished the energy consistently.”
At the television Week Ruler of Pop Honors for 1972 he won Most Famous Australian Collection for When You Send up a little prayer to heaven. His second studio collection, Sitting Large and in Charge (1972), likewise came to No. 16. It furnished a twofold A-sided single with his forms of “Rainbow on the Waterway”/”We’ll Meet Once More” (November 1972), which crested at No. 8. At 15 he was the most youthful Australian craftsman to have a best 10 hit until Nikki Webster’s “Strawberry Kisses” in June 2001.
In January 1973 he momentarily got back to Australia to record a collection, Johnny Youthful, The Youthful Ability Group, and Jamie Redfern Sing the Hits! (1973), he gave lead vocals to “Dancing Matilda” and joined the then-current Youthful Ability Group on two tracks; his sibling, Derek, sang lead for another track, “Infatuation”. His next single, “Venus” (1973), was a cover form of Frankie Avalon’s melody, which crested at No. 8. For the majority of that year, Redfern was in the US for another visiting stretch with Liberace.
Redfern’s third studio collection, Hitch a Ride on a Grin (1974), gave the title track as its lead single in Spring, which arrived at the best 30. Additionally that year he was named the Lord of Pop at the television Week Ruler of Pop Honors for 1974. In the next year he gave a gathering collection, Jamie Redfern’s Brilliant Hits. As per Australian music antiquarian, Ian McFarlane, Redfern “slipped from view” during that year.
In May 1977 he was consulted for Flashez, a young pop show on ABC television. In April 1981 he told John Vidler of The Australian Ladies’ Week after week’s television World that he was performing consistently at Sydney RSL and Associations Endlessly clubs in Melbourne. He likewise functioned as a singing teacher and “takes a shot at writing a couple of melodies.” He introduced Jamie Redfern’s Scoundrels on Aurora television.
Jamie Redfern Songs
♦ The Little White Cloud
♦ When You Wish upon a Star
♦ Rainbow on the River”/”We’ll Meet Again
♦ Venus
♦ Hello, Funny Face
♦ Hitch a Ride on a Smile
♦ Jenny
