Joy McKean

Joy McKean (born Mildred Geraldine Joy McKean in Singleton, New South Wales, on 14 January 1930; died 25 May 2023) was an Australian country music singer-songwriter and, at one time, the wife and manager of Slim Dusty. The mother of country musicians Anne Kirkpatrick and David Kirkpatrick, she recorded as McKean Sisters (with sister Heather McKean) and as Slim Dusty & Joy McKean (with her then husband) as well as her own recordings. McKean, known as the Queen of Australian country music