Australian musician Kevin Parker by Raph_PH – Wikimedia Commons
10 Most Famous Australian singers
Australia has given the world some of the most innovative, energizing, and eclectic singers who have made waves in the music scene, and with good reason. Australian music has been as much about ear-throbbing beats as energetic vocals. From pop to rock to jazz and a little bit of RnB, Australian music has pretty much all genres covered. From singers like Luke Hemmings to Michael Clifford.
Australia has produced some Grammy-worthy chartbusters that have wowed music lovers and topped many Billboard listings. The music of Australia has an extensive history made of music societies. Indigenous Australian music forms part of the unique heritage of a 40,000 to 60,000-year history which produced the iconic didgeridoo. In this article, we feature 10 of the most famous Australian singers.
1. Kylie Minogue
Kylie Ann Minogue is an Australian singer, songwriter, and actress. She is the highest-selling female Australian artist of all time, having sold over 80 million records worldwide. She has been recognized for reinventing herself in music and fashion, for which she is referred to by the European press as the Princess of Pop and a style icon. Her accolades include a Grammy Award, three Brit Awards, and 17 ARIA Music Awards.
Minogue continued reinventing her image and experimenting with a range of genres on her subsequent albums, which spawned successful singles such as Slow, 2 Hearts, All the Lovers, Santa Baby, Timebomb, and Dancing. With her 2020 album Disco, she became the first female artist to have a chart-topping album in the UK for five consecutive decades. Her other ventures include product endorsements, children’s books, fashion, and charitable work.
2. Nick Cave
Nick Cave And Warren Ellis – Fairfield Halls, Croydon – Saturday 4th September 2021 by Raph_PH – Wikimedia Commons
Nicholas Edward Cave is an Australian singer, songwriter, poet, lyricist, author, screenwriter, composer, and occasional actor. Known for his baritone voice and for fronting the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Cave’s music is generally characterized by emotional intensity, a wide variety of influences, and lyrical obsessions with death, religion, love, and violence.
Nick’s most recent musical work features ambient and electronic elements, as well as increasingly abstract lyrics, informed in part by grief over his son Arthur’s 2015 death, which is explored in the documentary One More Time with Feeling (2016) and the Bad Seeds’ 17th and latest album, Ghosteen (2019). He was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2007 and named an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2017.
3. Kevin Parker
Kevin Richard Parker is an Australian singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer, best known for his musical project Tame Impala, for which he writes, performs, records, and produces the music. Parker has released four Tame Impala albums: Innerspeaker, Lonerism, Currents, and The Slow Rush.
In addition to his work for Tame Impala, Parker was the drummer of Pond from 2009 until 2011. He produced the band’s studio albums. As a producer, Parker has collaborated with artists such as Mark Ronson, Lady Gaga, Kanye West, Travis Scott, Melody’s Echo Chamber, and the Flaming Lips. He has won 13 ARIA Music Awards, two APRA Awards, and a Brit Award, and has received four Grammy Award nominations.
4. Sia
Sia performs on August 17, 2011 at the Showbox at the Market in Seattle, Washington by Kirk Stauffer – Wikimedia Commons
Sia Kate Isobelle Furler is an Australian singer and songwriter. She started her career as a singer in the acid jazz band Crisp in the mid-1990s in Adelaide. In 1997, when Crisp disbanded, she released her debut studio album, titled OnlySee, in Australia. She moved to London and provided vocals for the British duo Zero 7. Sia released her second studio album, Healing Is Difficult, in 2001, and her third, Colour the Small One, in 2004.
In 2014, Sia broke through as a solo recording artist when her sixth studio album, 1000 Forms of Fear, debuted at No. 1 in the U.S. Billboard 200 and generated the top-ten single “Chandelier” and a trilogy of music videos co-directed by Sia and starring child dancer Maddie Ziegler. Among the accolades received by Sia are nearly a dozen ARIA Awards, 9 Grammy Award nominations, and an MTV Video Music Award.
5. Keith Urban
Keith Lionel Urbahn, known professionally as Keith Urban, is a New Zealand-born Australian musician, singer, guitarist, and songwriter known for his work in country music. Recognized with four Grammy Awards, Urban is considered one of the leading exponents of his music genre.
Urban has also earned fifteen Academy of Country Music Awards, including the Jim Reeves International Award, thirteen CMA Awards, and six ARIA Music Awards. Urban is also the songwriter and performer of the song “For You” from the film Act of Valor, which earned him nominations at both the 70th Golden Globe Awards and at the 18th Critics’ Choice Awards in the respective Best Original Song categories.
6. Iggy Azalea
Iggy Azalea performing “Bounce” at Danforth Music Hall in Toronto, Canada, in 2014 by Matt Klopot – Wikimedia Commons
Amethyst Amelia Kelly, known professionally as Iggy Azalea, is an Australian rapper. At the age of 16, Azalea moved from Australia to the United States in order to pursue a career in music.
Azalea earned public recognition after releasing the music videos for her songs “Pussy” and “Two Times” on YouTube, both of which gained rapid popularity. Azalea shortly after released her debut mixtape, Ignorant Art (2011), and subsequently signed a recording contract with American rapper T.I.’s Grand Hustle label.
7. Natalie Imbruglia
Natalie Imbruglia is an Australian-British singer and actress. In the early 1990s, she played Beth Brennan in the Australian soap opera Neighbours. Three years after leaving the program, she began a singing career with her chart-topping cover of Ednaswap’s song “Torn.”
Her subsequent album, Left of the Middle (1997), sold 7 million copies worldwide. Imbruglia’s five subsequent albums have combined sales of 3 million copies worldwide, and her accolades include eight ARIA Awards, two Brit Awards, one Billboard Music Award, and three Grammy nominations.
8. Michael Hutchence
Michael Hutchence of INXS by Andwhatsnext – Wikimedia Commons
Michael Hutchence was an Australian musician, singer-songwriter, and actor. Hutchence co-founded the rock band INXS, which sold over 75 million records worldwide and was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2001. He was the lead singer and lyricist of INXS from 1977 until his death.
Hutchence was a member of the short-lived pop rock group Max Q. He also recorded some solo material and acted in feature films, including Dogs in Space (1986), Frankenstein Unbound (1990), and Limp (1999).
9. Angus Young
Angus McKinnon Young is an Australian musician, best known as the co-founder, lead guitarist, songwriter, and sole original member of the hard rock band AC/DC. He is known for his energetic performances, schoolboy-uniform stage outfits, and his own version of Chuck Berry’s duckwalk.
Young was ranked 24th in Rolling Stone’s 100 greatest guitarists of all-time list. In 2003, Young and the other members of AC/DC were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The following year they were ranked number 72 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the “100 greatest artists of all time.” VH1 ranked them number 23 on their list of the “100 greatest artists of all time” and number 4 in their list of the “100 greatest artists of hard rock.”
10. Courtney Barnett
Courtney Barnett is an Australian singer, songwriter, and musician. Known for her deadpan singing style and witty, rambling lyrics, she attracted attention with the release of her debut EP I’ve Got a Friend Called Emily Ferris in 2012. International interest came with the release of her EP The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas in 2013.
Barnett’s debut album Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit was released in 2015 to widespread acclaim. At the 2015 ARIA Music Awards, she won four awards from eight nominations. She was nominated for Best New Artist at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards and International Female Solo Artist at the 2016 Brit Awards. She released Lotta Sea Lice, a collaborative album with Kurt Vile, in 2017. She released her second album Tell Me How You Really Feel to further acclaim in 2018. Barnett’s third studio album Things Take Time, Take Time was released in November 2021.
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