CHRIS SCHERI

Chris Scheri was an original member of Australia's first all girl heavy rock / metal band, Sweet Jayne. For the duration of the band, from 1977 to 1983, Scheri was lead singer, flute player for the band and she wrote or co-wrote with Cris Bonacci (who later became the lead guitarist in the British heavy metal band Girlschool and has also provided session guitar work for other artists) all of the band's 70 song repertoire. The band split up in 1983, when Mike Oldfield saw Sweet Jayne headlining at the Manzil Room during his Sydney tour and invited Chris Scheri to the U.K. to work for him as flute player and singer.

In 1984, Chris Scheri, via Ossy Hoppe Promotions ( who also managed Whitesnake ), signed a publishing contract with the German publishing house, Marie Marie Musikverlag, Hamburg for the European rights to some of her songs. Subsequently, Rik Borgia from Mink De Ville produced two of Chris's songs as covers for a girl duo in Holland.

In 1985 Chris Scheri concentrated on song writing and trying to secure releases and covers of her songs. Melbourne punk band, The Editions covered her song, "Bring Me Undone". Throughout the 1980's Chris Scheri entered and was successful in various Songwriter awards. In 1986, Chris Scheri set up 'Music Recording Studio 7' in Kingsway, South Melbourne in the ex Regency Recording control room and band rehearsal rooms.

She worked for clients and musician friends and recorded her own songs in between. Studio7, with Chris as manager, engineer and producer, made a very wide and diverse range of recordings. Artists included Stefan Dennis from the T.V. series Neighbours , Josie Jason's solo projects, recordings for The Mavis's first vinyl releases, Adrian Newington, Sisters of the Moon, Robyn Youlten, plus covers bands, jazz bands, heavy metal bands, Christmas carols for the Catholic Church and even a project for Safeway! She also worked on songs for Suzi Quatro, sometimes with Josie Jason playing guitars for the demos.Studio 7 wound up in 1993 when the commercial building in which the studio was housed was sold and rennovated.

From 1994 - 1998 she was in a duo with Robyn Youlten called Wild Orchids that expanded out to a full all girl band eg. 'Sisters of the Moon' and sometimes morphed into a covers band. In 1996, Wild Orchids, featuring Chris Scheri and Robyn Youlten released a 13 track CD, 'Past all the Edges'.

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