Wilma Reading

Who is Wilma Reading?

Wilma Reading is a singer from Cairns, Queensland.

Reading begun her singing career in 1959 after singing for friends in a Brisbane jazz club. She has performed on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, had a residency at New York's Copacabana nightclub, and toured with Duke Ellington. She made numerous appearances on The Morecambe & Wise Show in 1973 and 1974 and played Julie in a West End production of Showboat, taking over from Cleo Laine. She has performed with the national orchestras of Belgium, Holland, Iceland, and Germany and toured with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra. She appeared alongside Jim Brown in the film Pacific Inferno.

Reading is of English, Irish, Torres Strait Islander, Jamaican, Afghan, Scottish, and Australian Aboriginal ancestry. She is the daughter of Heather Pitt and niece of singer Georgia Lee.