- Paul Kelly
Paul Maurice Kelly (born 13 January 1955 in Adelaide, South Australia) is an Australian singer-songwriter and is recognised as an icon of Australian rock music as a member of the ARIA Hall of Fame. He is now based in Melbourne, Australia. His output has ranged from bluegrass to studio-oriented dub reggae, but his core output comfortably straddles folk, rock, and even some country.
- Kate Ceberano
Kate Ceberano, born 17 November, 1966, is an award winning Australian pop vocalist entertainer. She acquired local fame in the soul, jazz and pop genres as well as in her brief forays into musicals with "Jesus Christ Superstar" and film. She has also achieved success as a songwriter, with the hit "Pash" going gold in 1998.
- John Butler
John Butler (born 1 April, 1975 in Torrance, California) is an Australian musician having moved to Australia on 26 January, 1986 with his Australian father and American mother. He is the leader of the John Butler Trio, a band that has achieved two platinum records in Australia with "Three" (2001) and "Living" (2003). Their 2004 album "Sunrise Over Sea" debuted at number one on March 15, 2004 and shipped gold in its first week of release.
- Mia Dyson
Mia Dyson (born 1981) is an Australian singer, songwriter, and guitarist. She shot to fame with her 2003 album "Cold Water" and her subsequent follow-up album, "Parking Lots", which won "Best Blues & Roots album" at the 2005 ARIA Awards. When queried by the Sydney Morning Herald on how she went from a settled family life, …
- Missy Higgins
Missy Higgins (born Melissa Morrison Higgins on August 19, 1983) is an award-winning Australian singer-songwriter, best known for her hit singles "Scar" and "The Special Two" off her debut album "The Sound of White". Her second album, "On a Clear Night" was released in April 2007. Higgins is considered Australia's most popular female music star. She has begun touring in May, 2007 in Australia to promote her new album, …
- Paul Mac
Paul Mac (born Paul McDermott) is a musician, producer and remixer from Sydney, Australia (not to be confused with the UK Techno DJ and producer Paul Mac alias Paul Souter). Mac formed the bands Smash Mac Mac, Itch-e And Scratch-e, Boo Boo And Mace, The Lab and The Dissociatives as well as releasing records under his own name. He has also played with Severed Heads and Silverchair. Paul Mac has produced remixes for Silverchair, Powderfinger, …
- Kasey Chambers
Kasey Chambers (born June 4, 1976) is an Australian country music musician. Each of Chambers' solo albums has achieved platinum status in Australia, with three successive albums reaching number one on the ARIA album charts.
- Clare Bowditch
Clare Bowditch is an Australian musician from Melbourne, Victoria. She came to prominence in 2005 with the release of her second album "What Was Left", which received excellent critical reviews, high rotation airplay on radio station Triple J and moderate commercial success. She won the Best Female Artist award at the 2006 ARIAs.
- Kylie Minogue
Kylie Ann Minogue (born 28 May 1968) is an Australian dance-pop singer-songwriter and occasional actress. Minogue rose to prominence in the mid '80s through her role in the Australian television soap opera "Neighbours", before she commenced her career as a pop artist in the late '80s. According to Warner Music Australia, Minogue has sold over 65 million records worldwide. Signed to a contract by British songwriters and producers Stock, Aitken & Waterman, …
- John Farnham
John Peter Farnham (born July 1, 1949) is an English-born Australian pop singer. Domestically he has remained one of Australia's best-known performers over a career spanning more than 30 years. He is the only Australian artist to have a number one record in five consecutive decades (echoing Sir Cliff Richard in the United Kingdom).
- Keith Urban
Keith Lionel Urban (born 26 October 1967, Australia), is an austrailian country music singer. Two of his albums, "Be Here" (2004) and "Love, Pain & the whole crazy thing" (2006) have reached the Top 10 on the "U.S. Billboard 200" albums chart & #1 on the Billboard Hot Country Album charts. He has scored seven number one songs in the United States to date and a total of fifteen top ten hits, …
- Ben Lee
Ben Lee (born September 11, 1978 in Sydney, Australia) is a ARIA Award winning Jewish Australian musician and actor. Lee began his career as a musician at the age of 14 with the Sydney band Noise Addict, but focused on his solo career when the band broke up. He appeared as the protagonist in the Australian film "The Rage In Placid Lake" (2003). Lee dated Claire Danes for several years, but their relationship ended in 2003.
- Nick Cave
Nicholas Edward Cave (born September 22, 1957) is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, and occasional actor. He is best known for his work in the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and his fascination with American music and its roots. He currently lives in Brighton & Hove in England.
- Jimmy Barnes
Jimmy Barnes is a popular Australian rock singer. He was born James Dixon Swan on April 28, 1956 in Glasgow, Scotland. His father Jim Swan was a prizefighter and his older brother John Swan is also a rock singer. His career as both a solo performer and as the lead vocalist with the rock band Cold Chisel has made him one of the most popular and best-selling Australian music artists of all time.
- Delta Goodrem
Delta Lea Goodrem (born November 9, 1984) is a multi-ARIA Award winning Australian singer-songwriter, pianist and Logie Award winning actress. Signed to Sony at the age of 15, Goodrem rose to prominence in 2002, starring in the popular Australian soap "Neighbours", and this assisted her in establishing an international music career. Her musical output falls under the pop and ballad genres and heavily features the piano, …
- Troy Cassar-Daley
Troy Cassar-Daley is a multi award winning Maltese, Australian & Aboriginal country musician from Grafton, New South Wales. Although he is considered to be a country person, he originates from Surry Hills, a suburb of Sydney. He has been a regular at the Tamworth Country Music Festival (where he first performed at the age of eleven), The Deadlys and visitor to Nashville, Tennessee. He performed in the Australian Country Music Showcase in Nashville.
- Gotye
Gotye is the musical project of Wally DeBacker, a Melbourne musician. He has released two albums independently: "Boardface" (2004) and "Like Drawing Blood" (2006), the latter of which was entirely made in bedrooms around Melbourne.
- Slim Dusty
David Gordon "Slim Dusty" Kirkpatrick, AO, OBE (June 13, 1927—September 19, 2003) was an iconic Australian country music singer-songwriter. He has sold more than five million albums and singles in Australia.
- Anthony Callea
Anthony Cosmo Callea (born December 13, 1982 in Melbourne to Italian parents) is an ARIA Award winning Australian singer and was the runner-up in the 2004 season of Australian Idol. Callea currently holds the record for the highest-selling single and fastest-selling single in Australia for his debut single "The Prayer".
- Daniel Johns
Daniel Paul Johns (born April 22, 1979) is an Australian vocalist, composer, guitarist and pianist, best known as frontman of the rock band Silverchair.
- Alex Lloyd
Alex Lloyd (born Alex Wasiliev in Sydney, November 1974) is an Australian singer-songwriter. His most popular album "Watching Angels Mend" released in 2001 went double platinum and his third album "Distant Light" released in 2003 has featured three songs that have made the Australian top 40 singles charts. He has also won two ARIA awards for "Male Artist of the Year" in 2000 and 2002.
- Daniel Merriweather
Daniel Merriweather is a critically acclaimed award-winning R&B Singer/Songwriter from Melbourne, Australia.
- Ross Wilson
Ross Wilson (born November 18, 1947) is an Australian musician, singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer who is best known for fronting the groups Daddy Cool and Mondo Rock, and for his production of albums by the Australian band Skyhooks. Wilson began his career as a teenager in Melbourne in the mid-1960s, when he formed his first band, The Pink Finks with long-time musical partner Ross Hannaford.
- Guy Sebastian
Guy Theodore Sebastian (born October 26, 1981) is an Australian singer-songwriter and winner of the first "Australian Idol" TV talent competition quest in 2003. Since winning the competition, he has released three top five albums and seven top twenty singles and has sold over a million albums and singles in Australia alone. He has also had substantial success overseas with number one hits in New Zealand, Malaysia, and Singapore.
- Tina Arena
Tina Arena (born Filippina Lydia Arena on November 1, 1967, in Moonee Ponds, Melbourne, Australia) is an ARIA award winning singer/songwriter.
- Jimmy Little
Jimmy Little OAM (born 1937) is an Australian Aboriginal musician whose career has spanned six decades. He says his music has been influenced by Nat King Cole and American country music artist Jim Reeves. He has been recognised with an Order of Australia Medal, named as a Living National Treasure in 2004 and awarded an honorary doctorate in music as was Peter Sculthorpe.
- John Williamson
John Robert Williamson AM (born 1 November 1945 in Quambatook, Victoria) is an Australian country music singer-songwriter. Williamson was raised in the Mallee district of northwestern Victoria. In 1965, his family moved to Croppa Creek, near Moree, New South Wales, where John began performing at a local restaurant. Throughout his career, John Williamson has released over 32 albums, 10 videos, 5 DVDs, and 2 books of lyrics.
- The Veronicas
The Veronicas are an Australian pop award winning singer/songwriter duo composed of identical twin sisters Lisa Marie and Jessica Louise Origliasso (born December 25, 1984 in Brisbane). who are of Italian (Sicilian) descent.
- Bernard Fanning
Bernard Fanning (born August 15, 1969) is an Australian musician best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Powderfinger. He went to St. Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace, Brisbane; after completing high school he decided to join a band.
- Ian Moss
Ian Moss is an Australian rock guitarist and singer. Born in Alice Springs, Moss moved to Adelaide, where he began his professional career in 1973, after answering a newspaper advertisement for a new band. Joining Steve Prestwich, Don Walker and Jimmy Barnes, the band Cold Chisel became one of the most successful Australian bands of the 1970s and 1980s. Moss contributed as a musician and songwriter, and also performed lead vocals on many of the band's songs, …
- Jenny Morris
Jenny Morris is a New Zealand rock singer. Her first success came with New Zealand band The Crocodiles who scored a hit with "Tears". Re-locating to Australia, she became a back-up vocalist for bands such as The Models, and INXS (on their 1984 album "The Swing"), before going on to a successful solo career.
- Stephen Cummings
Stephen Cummings is an Australian singer, songwriter and author. Born 13th September. He is best known as the lead singer of the popular 1970s-1980s Melbourne-based rock band, The Sports. Following their breakup in 1981, Cummings has pursued a solo career which has met critical acclaim but has had limited commercial success. He has published three novels, "Wonder Boy" (1996), "Stay Away From Lightning Girl", and "Kitchen Man".
- Deborah Conway
Deborah Conway (Deborah Ann Conway born 8 August 1959 Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian rock singer, songwriter, model and actor who became well known in the 1980s rock band Do-Ré-Mi (1981-1988) with their surprise hit "Man Overboard" (on YouTube).<br /> Conway attended Lauriston Girls' School and then University of Melbourne, modelling and singing her way through. Official Sit
- Wendy Matthews
Wendy Matthews (b. 1960 in Montreal, Canada) is an Australian-based adult alternative pop singer who has had won seven ARIA awards and achieved a number of hit records in the 1990s.
- Joan Sutherland
Dame Joan Sutherland OM, AC, DBE (born November 7, 1926) is an Australian dramatic coloratura soprano noted for her contribution to the bel canto revival of the 1950s and 1960s. She was hailed La Stupenda after an Alcina performance in La Fenice in 1960.
- Natalie Imbruglia
Natalie Jane Imbruglia (pronounced im-bru-lee-yah) (born February 4, 1975) is an Australian singer-songwriter, model and actress. In the early 1990s, Imbruglia was known to audiences as Beth Willis in the popular Australian soap "Neighbours" (also responsible for launching pop singer Kylie Minogue). Two years after leaving the program, she launched a highly successful singing career with the international hit, "Torn".
- Archie Roach
Archie Roach (born 1956, Mooroopna, Victoria) is an Australian musician. A singer, songwriter and guitarist, he survived a turbulent upbringing to develop into a powerful voice for Indigenous Australia, a storyteller in the tradition of his ancestors, and a nationally popular and respected artist.
- Johnny O'Keefe
Johnny O'Keefe (born John Michael O'Keefe, January 19 1935; died October 6 1978) was a famous Australian rock and roll singer whose career began in the 1950s and ended with his early death in the late 1970s. Some of his hits include "Wild One" (1958), "Shout!" and "She's My Baby". In his twenty-year career, O'Keefe released over 50 singles, 50 EP's and 100 albums. Often referred to by his initials, "JOK" or by his nickname, "The Wild One", …
- Kevin Mitchell
Kevin Mitchell (born 1 October, 1976), is an Australian pop-musician, most famous for his role as vocalist/guitarist for the band Jebediah. Today, Kevin Mitchell often performs his solo work under the pseudonym of Bob Evans. He has released two albums under this name, His first was a low key album titled "Suburban Kid", which was released in 2003. It was released on Redline Records, and was not widely available.
- Johnny Diesel
Diesel is an Australian musician. He has recorded nine albums under either this name, his birth name of Mark Lizotte or the epithet Johnny Diesel. Two of his albums have been No. 1 Australian hits and he has also played on several albums by his brother-in-law, rock singer Jimmy Barnes. Best known as a singer and guitarist, Diesel is also competent on bass guitar, drums and percussion and keyboards.