- Brian Cadd
Brian Cadd (born 1946) is an Australian singer-songwriter notable for his work with Axiom and the Flying Burrito Brothers. He is also a keyboardist and producer. Growing up in Perth, Cadd entered a T.V. talent quest - aged around 12 - and was offered work as a pianist on a T.V. show. Moving to Tasmania then Melbourne he played with the Beale Street Jazz Band and The Castaways. In 1966, he joined The Groop. Together they had three hit singles. - Olivia Newton-John
Olivia Newton-John AO OBE (born 26 September 1948) is a Grammy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated English-born Australian pop singer, songwriter and actress of Welsh and German descent. Her highly acclaimed vocal musical and acting talents made her a globally recognized name. Olivia Newton-John is also a small business entrepreneur and an avid activist in ecological or environmental issues. - Marcia Hines
Marcia Hines (born July 20, 1953) is an American born singer who achieved great success in her adopted homeland of Australia. - 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. - 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. - Lobby Loyde
Lobby Loyde (May 18 1941 - April 21, 2007) was an Australian rock music guitarist, songwriter and producer. He was a leading figure in the 1970s Australian pub rock scene, particularly as a member of the bands Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs and the Coloured Balls. Known for his plectrum guitar technique, Loyde inspired a legion of Australian musicians, and was also cited as an influence by international musicians such as Kurt Cobain and Henry Rollins. - Frank Ifield
Frank Ifield (born Francis Edward Ifield, 30 November 1937, Coundon, Coventry, England) is an Australian-English easy listening and country music singer. - 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. - Renée Geyer
Renée Geyer is one of Australia's most respected singers, most often identified with soul music, blues, and jazz. However she also achieved several hit singles as a mainstream pop singer. - 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", … - 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. - 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. - 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). - Helen Reddy
Helen Reddy (born October 25, 1941 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian pop singer and actress. Reddy was immensely successful as a singer in the 1970s with numerous hit records including three U.S. #1 singles. She has sold more than 15 million albums and 10 million singles, and was the first Australian-born performer to win a Grammy award. In 1974, she became a naturalized citizen of the United States, but currently lives near Sydney, Australia. - Percy Grainger
Percy Aldridge Grainger (8 July 1882 - 20 February, 1961) was an Australian-born pianist, composer, and champion of the saxophone and the Concert band. - Richard Clapton
Richard Clapton (1951?-) is an Australian singer/songwriter. His date of birth is somewhat elusive, but in an interview with the Melbourne Age in 2002, he described himself as 50something. In this article in "Who" magazine his birthdate is given as 1951. His albums include: "Prussian Blue" (1973)"Girls on the Avenue" (1975) "Main Street Jive" 1976 "Goodbye Tiger" 1977, … - 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. - Col Joye
Colin Frederick Jacobsen AM (born 13 April 1938 in Sydney, New South Wales), better known as Col Joye, is an Australian popular entertainer and entrepreneur. He was the second Australian rock and roll singer after Johnny O'Keefe to have a number one record in Australia and the first Australian to reach the American Billboard charts, with "Bye Bye Baby", "Stagger Lee" and "Oh Yeah Uh Huh" in 1959. - Graeme Bell
Graeme Bell MBE (born September 7, 1914) is an Australian dixieland and classic jazz pianist and composer. He formed "Graeme Bell and his All-Stars" and toured Czechoslovakia in the 1940s. The Australian jazz awards, which commenced in 2001, are named the Bell Awards in his honour. - Don Burrows
Donald Vernon Burrows, AO, MBE (b. August 8, 1928) is an Australian jazz and swing musician, playing the clarinet, saxophone, and flute. His best-known group is the Don Burrows Quartet: Don Burrows (multiple woodwind), George Golla (guitar), Ed Gaston (bass) and Alan Turnbull (drums). Burrows has played with world-renowned musicians such as Frank Sinatra, Dizzy Gillespie and Nat King Cole, Oscar Peterson, James Morrison, Tony Bennett, the Sydney Symphony, … - George Young
George Redburn Young (born 6 November 1947 in Glasgow, Scotland) is an Australian rock musician, songwriter and record producer, best-known as the co-writer of the international hits, "Friday On My Mind" and "Love Is In The Air"; and for his production of the hard rock band, AC/DC, which features his younger brothers, Malcolm Young and Angus Young. - Normie Rowe
Normie Rowe was the first and biggest solo star of Australian pop in the Sixties and Australia's top male pop singer of the mid-Sixties. A strong singer and a natural performer, his bright, edgy tenor voice was showcased in well-chosen material, much of which was produced by the legendary Pat Aulton, house producer for the Spin Records and Festival Records labels. Backed by assured performances from his band The Playboys, … - Smoky Dawson
Smoky Dawson MBE (born 19 March 1913) is an Australian country music performer. He is widely touted as Australia's first cowboy. Born Herbert Henry Dawson in Collingwood, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne and raised in the rural area of Warrnambool, his parents died at an early age, resulting in his living for several years in an orphanage. Music was always his way of comforting himself, and during World War II he took his talent to comfort others, … - Joe Camilleri
Joe Camilleri (born 21 May 1948 in Malta) is a legendary Australian singer, songwriter and saxophonist. He has also recorded under the pseudonums "Jo Jo Zep" and "Joey Vincent". He began his music career playing blues and R&B, and in the late 1960s he was a member of Adderly Smith Blues Band but according to Australian rock historian Ed Nimmervoll Camilleri was sacked for sounding too much like Mick Jagger and for upstaging the other band members. - Glenn Shorrock
Glenn Barrie Shorrock (born on June 30, 1944, in Chatham, Kent, UK) is an Australian singer and songwriter, best known as a founding member and lead singer of rock band, The Little River Band. Shorrock currently lives in Sydney with his wife Jo. - Harry Vanda
Harry Vanda (born Johannes Hendricus Jacob Vandenberg, 22 March 1946, in The Hague, The Netherlands), is a Dutch-Australian popular music singer, guitarist, songwriter and record producer.
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