Janet Roddick

Janet Roddick is a New Zealand musician, singer and composer who belongs to screen composers group Plan 9.

Early life and education Roddick was born in Hamilton, attended primary school in Lower Hutt and secondary school in Invercargill. She attended the University of Otago, initially studying maths, music, psychology and geography before completing a performance degree in classical singing studying under Honor McKellar. Jungle Suite was part of a wider group called the Braille Collective and the larger group the Primitive Art Group. The band aimed to introduce a wider audience to their music. These collaborations with other musicians enabled Roddick to perform in musical styles such as country and western with Big Fiddle and satirical musical revues with Babes in the Wood. Plan 9 won the Silver Scroll award at the APRA (New Zealand) Music Awards in 2022 for their work The Bewilderness written as a response to the strangeness experienced by the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown.