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Born. To Diana Trask, 23, carrot-topped Australian singer who came up from Down Under to sing along with Mitch, and Thomas Ewen, 36, Aussie auto salesman: their second child, second son; in Melbourne...
...WILLIAM F. TRASK West Boylston, Mass...
WILLIAM F. TRASK West Boylston, Mass...
Even some Australians agree that Melbourne lies somewhere "behind the black stump" or, in current American, that it is a district of Squaresville. But Melbourne has its hipsters too, most notably a curvy, carrot-haired former choir singer named Diana Trask. Promoted from choir to nightclubs, Diana used to do Waltzing Matilda for visiting Americans. Discovered by Frank Sinatra and soon signed up by Columbia Records in New York, she has cut a series of briskly selling singles: Matilda, Long Ago Last Summer, Our Language of Love, I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry. Now, with her first album...
...voice is considerably more seasoned than the career. Although its owner is barely 20, it has a comfortably upholstered sound and is used with discretion. To put new juice into jaded numbers, Songstress Trask has a habit of singing tantalizingly off pitch for a number of bars, or of interjecting a caressing wobble, or of suddenly, with a crack of her high-heeled foot, breaking and reshaping the beat. The image goes with the voice: in her nightclub appearances she frequently appears in a skintight, flesh-colored satin skirt and turquoise sweater with matching eyelids, and bumps and swivels...