Debra Jay

Debra Jay is a professional vocalist with over 15 years experience! Providing either a Vintage set, a high energy, up-tempo party set or a relaxed, unobtrusive jazz & easy listening set; Debra's crowd-pleasing repertoire includes music from the 1940's to present day!

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Set List / Repertoire

Modern Vintage
A Night Like This (Caro Emerald)
Angels (The Baseballs/Robbie Williams)
Bad Romance (Caro Emerald/Lady Gaga)
Careless Whisper (Postmodern Jukebox/George Michael)
Crazy In Love (Beyonce/Emeli Sande)
Do Ya Think I'm Sexy (Cassandra Beck/Rod Stewart)
Don't Speak (Sarah Menescal/No Doubt)
Every Breath You Take (Karen Souza/The Police)
I Will Survive (The Puppini Sisters/Gloria Gaynor)
Like a Prayer (PMJ/Madonna)
Liquid Lunch (Caro Emerald)
Lovefool (Postmodern Jukebox/The Cardigans)
Material Girl (Cassandra Beck/Madonna)
Mr Brightside (The Killers/Postmodern Jukebox)
Should I Stay or Should I Go (The Cooltrane Quartet/The Clash)
Stop (Jazz Funk/Sam Brown)
Stray Cat Strut (The Stray Cats)
Tainted Love (Karen Souza/Soft Cell)
The Greatest Love of All (Postmodern Jukebox/Whitney Houston)
Time After Time (Sarah Menesal/Cyndi Lauper)
Umbrella (The Baseballs/Rihanna)
Walk Like an Egyptian (The Puppini Sisters/Katrina & The Waves)

Wartime – SAMPLE LIST
A Foggy Day
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
Ain't Misbehavin'
As Time Goes By
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
Chatanooga Choo Choo
Don't Get Around Much Anymore
Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree
Get Happy
Have You Met Miss Jones
It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
In The Mood
Mack The Knife
Rum & Coca Cola
The Way You Look Tonight
The White Cliffs of Dover
We'll Meet Again

1950s – SAMPLE LIST
All Shook Up – Elvis Presley
Blue Suede Shoes – Elvis Presley
Earth Angel – The Penguins/Back to The Future
Diamonds Are a Girls Best Friend – Marylin Monroe
I Only Have Eyes For You – The Flamingoes
Johnny B Goode – Chuck Berry
Just a Gigolo – Louis Prima
Lipstick On Your Collar – Connie Francis
Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps – Doris Day
Que Sera Sera – Doris Day
Sh-Boom – The Chords
Shake, Rattle & Roll – Bill Haley
Stupid Cupid – Connie Francis
That'll Be The Day – Buddy Holly
You Never Can Tell – Chuck Berry

1960s

All Or Nothing – The Small Faces
Bad Moon Rising – Creedence Clearwater Revival
Be My Baby – The Ronettes
Brown Eyed Girl –Van Morrison
Brown Sugar – The Rolling Stones
Build Me Up, Buttercup – The Foundations
Crazy – Patsy Cline
Daydream Believer – The Monkees
Dedicated Follower of Fashion – The Kinks
Drive My Car – The Beatles
Eight Days a Week – The Beatles
Everlasting Love – The Love Affair
For Once In My Life – Stevie Wonder
Happy Together – The Turtles
Heatwave – Martha Reeves
Help – The Beatles
Hey Jude – The Beatles
High Ho Silver Lining – Jeff Beck
I Saw Her Standing There –The Beatles
I'm A Believer – The Monkees
Is This The Way To Amarillo – Tony Christie
Its Not Unusual – Tom Jones
Jumping Jack Flash – The Rolling Stones
La Bamba – Los Lobos
Lazy Sunday – The Small Faces
Mustang Sally – Wilson Pickett
My Boy Lollipop – Millie
My Guy – Mary Wells
Nutbush City Limits – Ike & Tina Turner
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da – Marmalade
Proud Mary – Tina Turner
Puppet On A String – Sandie Shaw
Reet Petite – Jackie Wilson
River Deep Mountain High – Tina Turner
Shout – Lulu
Son of a Preacher Man Dusty – Springfield
Soul Man – Sam & Dave
Spirit In The Sky – Norman Greenbaum
Spooky – Dusty Springfield
Stand By Me – Ben E King
Stand By Your Man – Tammy Wynette
Sweetest Feeling – Jackie Wilson
The More I See You – Chris Montez
These Boots Are Made For Walking – Nancy Sinatra
To Sir With Love – Lulu
Twisting The Night Away – Sam Cooke
Venus – Shocking Blue
Woolly Bully – Sam The Sham & The Pharoahs
You Really Got Me – The Kinks
You Really Got a Hold On Me – The Miracles

1970s
Blame It on The Boogie – The Jackson 5
Blockbuster – The Sweet
Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen
Boogie Nights - Heatwave
Can't Get Enough – Bad Company
Carwash – Rose Royce
Copacabana – Barry Manilow
Crazy Little Thing Called Love – Queen
Dancing Queen – ABBA
Disco Inferno – The Trammps
Does Your Mother Know ABBA
Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue – Crystal Gale
Don't Leave Me This Way – Harold Melvin
Don't Stop – Fleetwood Mac
Dreams – Fleetwood Mac
Get Back The Beatles
Get Down Tonight – KC & The Sunshine Band
Hopelessly Devoted to You - Grease
Honky Tonk Woman – The Rolling Stones
I Do, I Do, I Do - ABBA
I Wish – Stevie Wonder
I'm Every Woman – Chaka Khan
I've Got The Music In Me – Kiki Dee
Jambalaya – The Carpenters
Jolene – Dolly Parton
Lets Stay Together – Al Green
Long Train Running – The Doobie Brothers
Love Is in the Air – John-Paul Young
Lovely Day – Bill Withers
My Coo Ca Choo – Alvin Stardust
Never Let Her Slip Away – Andrew Gold
Night Boat To Cairo – Madness
Nine to Five – Dolly Parton
Play That Funky Music – Wild Cherry
Ring My Bell – Anita Ward
Rock The Boat – The Hues Corporation
Rocking All Over The World – Status Quo
September – EWF
Signed Sealed Delivered – Stevie Wonder
Stuck In The Middle – Stealers Wheel
Superstition – Stevie Wonder
Sweet Home Alabama – Lynyrd Skynyrd
Thats The Worst Thing I Could Do – Grease
The First, The Last, My Everything – Barry White
Tiger Feet – Mud
Voulez Vous – ABBA
Waterloo – ABBA
You To Me Are Everything – The Real Thing
Young Hearts Run Free Candi Staton
You're So Vain – Carly Simon

1980s/1990s
500 Miles – The Proclaimers
A Little Respect – Erasure
Ain't No Love, Aint No Use – SubSub feat.Melanie Williams
All I Wanna Do – Sheryl Crow
All Night Long – Lionel Richie
Amazed – Lonestar
Baggy Trousers – Madness
Black Velvet – Alannah Myles
Canned Heat – Jamiroquai
Club Tropicana – Wham
Dance The Night Away – The Mavericks
Don’t Call me Baby – Madison Avenue
Echo Beach – Martha & The Muffins
Faith – George Michael
Footloose – Kenny Loggins
From This Moment – Shania Twain
Green Door – Shakin' Stevens
Holding Back The Years – Simply Red
I Just Called To Say I Love You – Stevie Wonder
I'm Outta Love – Anastacia
I'm Still Standing – Elton John
Karma Chameleon – Culture Club
Killing Me Softly – The Fugees
Kiss – Tom Jones
Man! I Feel Like a Woman – Shania Twain
Never Ever – All Saints
Never Gonna Give You Up – Rick Astley
No Diggity - Blackstreet
Perfect – Fairground Attraction
Reach – S Club 7
Simply The Best – Tina Turner
Sing it Back – Moloko
Slave To The Rhythm – Grace Jones
Smooth Operator – Sade
Something Got Me Started – Simply Red
Special Brew – Bad Manners
Stop – Erasure
Stray Cat Strut – The Stray Cats
The Eye Of The Tiger – Survivor
The Power of Love – Huey Lewis & The News
The Time of My Life – Dirty Dancing
The Wind Beneath My Wings – Bette Middler
Walk Like an Egyptian – The Bangles
Walking On Sunshine – Katrina &The Waves
Who Do You Think You Are – The Spice Girls
You Do Something To Me – Paul Weller

2000s onwards (SAMPLE LIST)
A Thousand Years – Chrstina Perri
Back to Black - Amy Winehouse
Big, Bad, Handsome Man – Imelda May
Black Horse & A Cherry Tree – KT Tunstall
Candy – Robbie Williams
Crazy – Gnarls Barkley
Crazy In Love – Beyonce
Dance With Me Tonight – Olly Murs
Dancing In The Moonlight – Toploader
Everyday I Love You Less and Less – The Kaiser Chiefs
Forget You – Cee Lo Green
Get Lucky – Daft Punk
Hallelujah – Alexandra Burke
Happy – Pharrell Williams
How Long – Charlie Puth
I Predict a Riot – The Kaiser
I'm Yours/Single Ladies – Jason Mraz/Beyonce
Havana – Camila Cabello
Let Me Entertain You – Robbie Williams
Love Foolosophy – Jamiroquai
Mr Brightside – The Killers
Make You Feel My Love – Adele
Mercy – Third Degree / Duffy
Murder On The Dancefloor – Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Never Ever – All Saints
New Rules – Dua Lipa
Not That Kind – Anastacia
Our Day Will Come – Amy Winehouse
Perfect – Ed Sheeran
Rather Be Clean – Bandit
Rehab – Amy Winehouse
Ruby – Kaiser Chiefs
Sex On Fire – Kings of Leon
Skyfall – Adele
Some Kinda Wonderful – Joss Stone
Thinking Out Loud – Ed Sheeran
Upside Down – Paloma Faith
Uptown Funk – Mark Ronson/Bruno Mars
Valerie – Amy Winehouse

JAZZ (swing, ballads, latin standards)
A Foggy Day (Gershwin)
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (Standard)
Ain't Misbehavin' (Fats Waller)
All Of Me (Standard)
Almost Like Being In Love (Lerner and Loewe)
Alright, OK, You Win (Various Artists)
At Last (Etta James)
Autumn Leaves (Standard)
Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered (Rogers & Hart)
Black Coffee (Peggy Lee)
Blue Moon (Various Artists)
Cheek to Cheek (Irving Berlin)
Come Rain or Come Shine (Harold Arlen)
Corcovado (Standard)
Cry Me a River (Julie London)
Desafinado (Standard)
Embraceable You (Standard/Various)
Every Time We Say Goodbye (Cole Porter)
Feelin' Good (Nina Simone)
Fever (Peggy Lee)
Fly Me To The Moon (Julie London)
Gee Baby Ain't I Good To You (Various Artists)
Get Happy (Judy Garland)
Green Dolphin Street (Standard)
Have You Met Miss Jones (Rogers & Hart)
I Put a Spell On You (Nina Simone)
I've Got You Under My Skin (Cole Porter)
It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain't Got That Swing (Duke Ellington)
It Had to Be You (Harry Connick Jr)
Let There Be Love (Nat King Cole)
L-O-V-E (Nat King Cole)
Lullaby of Birdland (Ella Fitzgerald)
Mack The Knife (Various)
Makin' Whoopee (Ella Fitzgerald)
Mas Que Nada (Standard/Various)
Misty (Standard/Various)
Moondance (Van Morrison)
My Baby Just Cares For Me (Nina Simone)
Night and Day (Cole Porter)
One Note Samba (Jobim)
Our Love Is Here to Stay (Gershwin)
Puttin' On The Ritz (Irving Berlin)
Route 66 (Various Artists)
Satin Doll (Standard/Various)
Smile (Charlie Chaplin)
Someone To Watch Over Me (Gershwin)
Stella By Starlight (Standard/Various)
Stormy Weather (Standard/Various)
Summertime (Gershwin)
Sway (Standard/Various)
That Ole Devil Called Love (Various)
The Girl From Ipanema (Jobim)
The Lady is a Tramp (Rodgers and Hart)
The Man I Love (Gershwin)
The Way You Look Tonight (Standard/Various)
They Can't Take That Away From Me (Gershwin)
Wave (Jobim)
Why Don't You Do Right (Jessica Rabbit)

EASY LISTENING
Alfie (Bacharach & David)
Always on My Mind (Various Artists)
Can't Take My Eyes Off You (Andy Williams)
Close to You (The Carpenters)
Come Away With Me (Norah Jones)
Dimming Of The Day (Bonnie Raitt)
Do Right Woman, Do Right Man (Aretha Franklin)
Don't Know Why (Norah Jones)
Easy (The Commodores)
Fields of Gold (Eva Cassidy)
First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (Roberta Flack)
Goodbye To Love (The Carpenters)
Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen/Various)
Have I Told You Lately That I Love You (Van Morrison)
If You Don't Know Me By Now (Harold Melvin)
Just The Two Of Us (Bill Withers/Grover Washington)
Lately (Stevie Wonder)
Love Letters Straight From Your Heart (Alison Moyet)
Love is a Losing Game (Amy Winehouse)
Love Me Like a Man (Bonnie Raitt)
Loving You (Minnie Riperton)
Moon River (Andy Williams)
My Cherie Amour (Stevie Wonder)
Natural Woman (Aretha Franklin)
Nobody Does It Better (Carly Simon)
On Broadway (George Benson)
Ordinary People (John Legend)
Over The Rainbow (Eva Cassidy)
Slow (Rumer)
Songbird (Eva Cassidy)
Stay With Me Baby (Lorraine Ellison)
Sunny (Bobby Hebb)
The Look Of Love (Bacharach)
The Man With The Child In His Eyes (Kate Bush)
The Way You Make Me Feel (Michael Jackson)
Top of The World (The Carpenters)
Vincent (Don MacLean)
Walk Between The Raindrops (Donald Fagen)
What A Wonderful World (Louis Armstrong/Various)
What's Going On (Marvin Gaye)
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow (Amy Winehouse)
You're All I Need to Get By (Aretha Franklin)

CHRISTMAS
All I Want For Christmas – Mariah Carey
Christmas Wrapping – The Waitresses
Cool Yule – Bette Middler
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas – Judy Garland
I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day – Wizzard
It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas – Michael Buble
Jingle Bells – Traditional
Last Christmas – George Michael
Let it Snow – Traditional
Merry Christmas Baby – BB King
Merry Christmas Darling – The Carpenters
Merry Christmas Everyone – Shakin' Stevens
Merry Xmas Everybody – Slade
Please Come Home For Christmas – Bon Jovi
Rocking Around the Christmas Tree – Brenda Lee
Run, Run Rudolph – Chuck Berry
Santa Baby – Kylie/Eartha Kitt
Santa Claus is Coming to Town – Traditional
Sleigh Ride – The Ronettes
The Christmas Song – Nat King Cole
White Christmas – Shakin' Stevens
Winter Wonderland – Darlene Love

Full Biography

Highlights

*Professional vocalist with over 15 years professional live experience.
*Ideal choice for any event requirement - be it Vintage Vocals, High Energy Contemporary Covers, or background unobtrusive Jazz/Swing and Easy Listening
*Repertoire ranges from 1920s right up to 2010s*Previous clients include Haven Holidays, Epsom Racecourse, ITV, DeVere Hotels, Greene King, and more.

Based in Hampshire, and with over 15 years experience as a professional singer in the UK and abroad, Debra Jay is the ideal vocalist for your event or venue. She has an extremely wide range of styles and songs in her repertoire, and her specialities include the following:

*1940s Wartime & Great American Songbook - ideal for a vintage tea party or themed event. Costume supplied.
* 40s/50s Swing, Rock and Roll, and Doo-Wop - ideal for swing dance nights, and other themed events. Costume supplied
* 60s, 70s and/or 80s tribute shows - featuring hit songs from all the classic artists of the decades. Costume supplied for each
* Jazz & Easy Listening - The ideal choice for a Masonic Ladies Night, or a Dinner event requiring background music.
* Classic Party Covers - If you want foot-stomping floor fillers, Debra Jay can also provide a non-stop night of dancefloor delight.

A highly polished and professional performer, Debra Jay is perfect for wedding receptions, private parties and corporate functions; to house or garden party, hotels, restaurants and wine bars alike.

Previous clients include:
ITV
Haven Holidays
Winchester Jazz Festival
Park Resorts
Cowes Week Festival, Isle-of-Wight
The Portsmouth Guildhall
Epsom Racecourse
HMS Nelson
HMS Sultan
Thistle Hotels
DeVere Hotels
Beaulieu National Motor Museum
Gentings Casinos
Grosvenor Casinos
Marriott Hotels
Greene King
Fullers

Lineup

Default lineup: 1 performer

Solo singer with high quality backing tracks.

Performance Times

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Prices

Price from £233 + travel from Hampshire

Based on 1 person performing 1 x 60 minute set

  • South East From £233
  • South West From £233
  • East Midlands From £317
  • East of England From £317
  • West Midlands From £317

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14 Customer Reviews

Performance quality: 5 stars
Sound quality: 5 stars
Behaviour: 5 stars
Communication: 5 stars
Audience engagement: 5 stars
Value for money: 5 stars
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A wonderful experience

5 stars - Debra Jay are Highly Recommended
booked Debra Jay for their event in Berkshire June 2024

“Debbie wow'd us with a great performance and a hugely varied repertoire. She engaged the audience throughout and had us all singing along. A great experiencd yhat i would highly recommend.”


Understood from the start what I was looking for... excellent

5 stars - Debra Jay are Highly Recommended
booked Debra Jay for their event in Wiltshire

“Debra Jay was booked to provide a background singer for a Regimental Leaving Function, she has had a few military bookings before so understood from the start what I was looking for. She filled the 2 hours with Easy listening music which was excellent. Her attendance at this event enhanced the evening, everyone commented on how good she was and her contribution gave a good send off to the leaving individual’s and their families, she was flexible with the times, and due to the leaving speeches going on worked slightly longer than planned with a smile on her face, nothing was a problem. I would recommend her to others that require a very professional singer.”


We loved Debra Jay. We would certainly recommend her and book her again.

5 stars - Debra Jay are Highly Recommended
booked Debra Jay for their Wedding in Devon

“We loved Debra Jay. She was polite, well timed and really nice. We would certainly recommend her and book her again. Alive Network was recommended to us by my brother and we would have no hesitation recommending the company either. We felt it was good value for money and what we had chosen fitted perfectly with our style of wedding.”


Debra's Performance was excellent and got everyone enjoying themselves

5 stars - Debra Jay are Highly Recommended
booked Debra Jay for their event in Surrey

“Debra's Performance was excellent and got everyone enjoying themselves. We would recommend her and some people have already taken her number. ”


Just to say that Debra Jay sang for us yesterday evening and she was absolutely ...

5 stars - Debra Jay are Highly Recommended
booked Debra Jay for their event at Lindfield Golf Club in West Sussex

“Just to say that Debra Jay sang for us yesterday evening and she was absolutely brilliant !!!! Everybody thoroughly enjoyed her performance.”

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