Based in Sydney, Australia, Janet and her brother David on double bass have worked consistently in 5 star hotel cocktail lounges since the early 1980s, interspersed with trips to Europe, UK and South East Asia in similar venues.

Originally from Victor Harbor and Adelaide , South Australia, Janet had moved to Sydney in 1984 as a popular jazz styled vocalist and pianist. A graduate of the University of Adelaide (Elder Conservatorium of Music) she has also worked as a high school music teacher.

Since 1992 Janet and David have produced nine successful CDs. Working in various trio , quartet and quintet formats they have performed in jazz festivals all over Australia and overseas.

Her double album 'The Way You Wear Your Hat' was named vocal album of the year by the Weekend Australian (Australia)s national newspaper). It was nominated in the finalists for the prestigious ARIA Award in October 1999. In 2000 her CD 'The Art Of Lounge Volume 2' was a finalist in the ARIA Awards Jazz Album Of the Year.

Janet has been nominated for a 'MO Award' in the jazz vocalist category in 1998 and in 2001.

Janet tours extensively with her jazz group throughout Australia, covering NSW, Queensland, Tasmania, Melbourne and Perth. She has played virtually all the major Australian Jazz and Arts Festivals and is a regular artist at Japan's Kobe Jazz Street International Festival.

While touring Japan and the USA in 2000, Janet performed at Lake Chautauqua Festival in upstate New York with swing players: Harry Allen, Dan Barrett, Keith Ingham, Rebecca Kilgore, Dave McKenna and Michael Moore. In September 2000 she performed at Tokyo's 'Body and Soul' jazz club and 'The Tokyo Club'. At Kobe Jazz Street she performed with Bill Berry, Mitsuaki Kishi (BMG) and the Swedish Jazz Kings.

One new move in 2000 was Janet's first venture into cabaret with a well received and sold-out season of her show 'Doris and Me' in the Australian capital, Canberra.

In May 2001, the Doris show toured nationally to Adelaide, The Gold Coast, Sydney and Melbourne.In June, Janet and David also toured Europe performing in Luxembourg and Milan.

In July they toured Japan where Janet sang with the USA saxophonist, Scott Hamilton in Tokyo's JZ Bratz club.

Her band including Eiji Kitamura (clt)and Tomonoa Hara (nr) and they performed in concerts and clubs over 15 days in Tokyo, Fuji and resorts.

A new CD with a French theme was released in November 2000 and several tracks have been included on play lists on ABC Radio nationally and some commercial easy listening formats as well.

A jazz review by Kevin Jones rated the new CD 'Comme Ci Comme Ca' - FIVE STARS - (The Weekend Australian December 2 - 3 2000).

When reviewing this CD, John Shand in the Sydney Morning Herald 27.4.01 said 'Janet Seidel can deliver songs with the smoothness of Dubonnet over ice' .

Also released is 'Love Letters', a collaboration with New York harmonica maestro William Galison. Jazz reviewer Michael Foster wrote: 'Seidel)s voice and piano playing and Galison)s harmonica rate highly among those smooth combinations that seem so natural' (The Canberra Times 11.12.00).

A new CD celebrating the songs in the cabaret show (Doris and Me) was released in May, 2001 and features the trio from the show: Janet on piano and vocal, David Seidel on Bass and Chuck Morgan: Guitar. Diana Simmonds in Sydney's Sunday Telegraph writes 'The recording has that intimacy and (liveness) so often missing these days. Seidel captures the deceptively easy, yet tasty nuances and rhythms that made Day a star vocalist' 10.6.01.

Whether in company with her usual trio or quartet from Australia or as one out with pickup band, Janet will make a great impression at any music venue or festival suitable for her uniquely personal, classic and sophisticated take on the Great American Songbook.