Sandra started singing professionally whilst still an actress, when she worked on a show about the Andrews Sisters. This led to her co-founding The SWING SHIFT, with whom she joined RAY McVAY’S ORCHESTRA travelling to places as far flung as Europe and the Middle East as well as completing three six-week tours of Japan.
VOLARE AND THE VENDETTAS - the band’s not currently active but the website remains for nostalgia purposes…)
“MISS VOLARE” and her band became regulars on the British swing circuit, appearing many times at the 100 Club, Notre Dame Dance Hall and various clubs, enjoying a long residency at Dover St Wine Bar – as well as countless corporate functions for big name brands – from the Penguin Book Awards, and the Peugeot Design Awards to appearances for O2, Miramax, Mini and many others. 
Their finest hour was the day Miss Volare roared into the ballroom of the Hilton Hotel on a Harley Davidson, peeled off her leathers to reveal a black satin gown and played for Graham’s Port’s 100th anniversary. Later that day, the band rushed up to Camden to play for the first night party of the film Swingers.
Sandra was still working with both bands when she was recruited for the French GLENN MILLER MEMORIAL ORCHESTRA, with whom she toured for seven years, during which she reckons she played pretty much every town on the Michelin map. Highlights included The Casino de Paris, the Arsenal at Metz, the Casino at Deauville, the Amphitheatre at Carthage, scores of festivals in the South and the enormous, 5,000-seater (sold out) Palais de Congres in Paris. She left the band in 2002.
Sandra had been working for many years on one of her personal passions, film noir, and in 2002 finally got a record deal for her dream project, NOIRESQUE. It is an ongoing project (there is currently a book in the pipeline) but the critically-acclaimed album, THE LONELY FATE OF THE FEMME FATALE, featuring songs from the original movies, was released on SILVA SCREEN RECORDS in 2003. Although it was recorded with the Vendettas, Sandra used this opportunity to return to her real name, leaving her “Miss Volare” alter-ego behind forever. 
Sandra wrote and performed the stage show, “NORESQUE”, with much-missed accompanist RUSSELL CHURNEY (of Julian Clary and Fascinating Aida fame) and directed by BARB JUNGR in 2003, playing successful runs at The Rosemary Branch Theatre and The Soho Theatre in London.
Throughout the time Sandra has spent with various bands, she has always also appeared as a soloist. Working mainly with either PHIL MEAD (Piano) or Hammond organist GARY BALDWIN, she has played for countless clubs, festivals, functions and corporate events. She specialises in the classic standards of the 1940s and 50s and has a repertoire of around 350 songs.
