"I must admit the music I do is a bit daggy," says Tokyo-based singer-songwriter Donna Burke with a laugh, rejecting any slick, "groovy" image in favor of the old-fashioned, down-to-earth comfort the colloquial Australian term implies.
It's become a trademark of sorts, featuring as it does not only in the tone of her first CD release, "Lost and Found," but in the name of the label she founded, Dagmusic.
This is a story of a woman following a dream and finding her own voice. The Perth native said she always wanted to be a singer, but never "had the guts" to do it in her own country.