Title: Gladys Moncrieff performing in the 1930s

Gladys Moncrieff (13 April 1892 – 8 February 1976) was a highly sucessful Australian soprano singer, known as 'Australia's Queen of Song' and 'Our Glad'.

Moncrieff was born in Bundaberg, Queensland, her father Reginald Edward Moncrieff was a piano turner and her mother, who went by the stage name Amy Lambell, was a professional singer. She attended several school in north Queensland, and quickly became involved in music. Her first stage performance was at the age of six at the Queen's Theatre in Bundaberg, she sang the American folk song "The merriest girl that's out" with her father accompanying on piano.[1] She performed in Gilbert and Sullivan productions and won an award for her soprano voice in the Charters Towers annual eisteddfod.

When she left school, she and her parents travelled around far north Queensland performing. She was billed as 'Little Gladys—The Australian Wonder Child' and her performances helped her to raise funds to move to Brisbane to pursue her career. She worked in Brisbane and Toowoomba during 1909, and then went to Sydney with her mother.