Biography
Tina Date is an Australian folk singer. She released her only album, "A Single Girl" in 1965.
Tina was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and originally studied as a concert pianist. In the early 1960s, she was caught up in the folk revival; learnt guitar and rapidly became one of Australia premier folk music performers at concerts, on stage and on television.
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Shortly after the release of the LP, she travelled to Canada to visit her mother (Anita Aarons - a prominent jewellery artist)) and thence onto New York where she worked at the United Nations Headquarters. She also associated with the Greenwich Village folk performers and had appearances including a short period on TV.
Her album is a eclectic mix of folk songs which also includes two songs from Shakespeare's Hamlet ("How Should I my True Love Know" and "Tomorrow is St. Valentine's Day") and an Elizabethan song "It Fell on a Summer's Day". Along with many traditional folk songs such as "The Spinnging Wheel", "Raggle Taggle Gypsies" and "The Butcher Boy", the album also features the track "It's Hard on a Lass to be Lonely" written by the Australian Poet Bill Scott.
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.