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"Working with Donné was like working with one of those legendary singers with those old time huge booming voices - they come from a jazz sensibility, but aren't singing jazz. I'm talking about Shirley Bassey and Dusty Springfield. But like Amy Winehouse or Cat Power, Donné flips this into a new context - pushing a new sound with a deep reverence for the old school." - Tony Buchen (producer) “There was only ever one thing, one goal, one purpose. Voice.” Donné’s music takes this concept of Voice and hones it into a laser beam. There is no doubt as to the emotional intent within her works and this intention is displayed in a manner so stripped down and raw it is intoxicating. Donné’s music began in the underworld of Sydney’s artist run spaces, warehouses and speakeasies. Spaces where no barriers were drawn to compromise the works therein. “You could be singing a jazz ballad one moment, a baroque aria the next and screaming indeterminate noise for the encore. Electronic artists,