Sally Street used to sit at her desk staring at her screen and daydreaming about jazz. In the mids Ms Street was a senior associate at a top Sydney law firm specialising in private equity, working for clients such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
But her high-flying legal career is worlds away from her new occupation as a jazz and pop singer, which sees her playing regular live gigs in Sydney nightspots and singing 'flirty' songs on stage with her diamante-encrusted keytar. Sally Street left a high-flying career as a lawyer to pursue her dream of being a jazz musician.
Ms Street also used to be half of one of the Sydney law community's most high-profile couples, before her split from estranged husband Alexander 'Sandy' Street, SC, in September last year. Ms Street's mother and her estranged husband are in the middle of a legal battle over a disputed loan worth several hundred thousands of dollars. For years as a lawyer Ms Street would spend her weeks working โ sometimes until 3am in the morning โ and her weekends in the garage of jazz musician Freddie Wilson in Hunters Hill on Sydney's North Shore learning how to sing with a live band.
Ms Street's father was a jazz musician and ever since she can remember she has wanted to be a singer. Ms Street used to be half one of the Sydney law community's most high-profile couples, before her split from estranged husband Alexander 'Sandy' Street, SC, in September last year. Ms Street's father was a jazz musician and ever since she can remember she has wanted to be a singer โ but he persuaded her to pursue a career in law instead.
In her shows and music videos Ms Street says she likes to incorporate sexiness 'kind of like Cameron Diaz, like girl next door sexy'. But Ms Street said if she had stayed on the law path full-time she believes something inside of her would have been 'empty and sad forever'.
