Vanessa Amorosi

Biography

TOPICS: HEADLINER, RECORDING ARTIST Amorosi was born 8 August 1981 in Melbourne. At the age of 12 Amorosi started to perform in shopping centers and local council concerts. Amorosi was discovered performing at Matrioshka, a Russian restaurant in Carnegie, by Jack Strom and signed a recording contract in 1997. After being signed to MarJac Productions (co-owned by managers Mark Holden and Jack Strom) and recording a promo CD titled Get Here, she secured a deal with Transistor Music Australia.

In 1999, Amorosi released her debut single Have A Look which became a Top 20 hit and went gold in Australia. This was followed by her successful 2nd single Absolutely Everybody, an anthemic dance song, reached the Top 10 and became the longest charting Australian single by an Australian female artist. It remained in the ARIA Top 50 Singles Chart for over 6 months after its release. Absolutely Everybody was released internationally and reached the Top 10 in many European countries including the United Kingdom and Germany where it received a gold certification. Amorosi performed at many large events such as the NRL Grand Final, the opening of the Motorcycle Grand Prix at Phillip Island and the new millennium on New Year’s Eve at Darling Harbour. Following the success of the first two singles Amorosi released two more singles in 2000 Shine and The Power became major Australian hits. Both were accredited gold by the ARIA Australian music industry. The rights to create a remixed version of Shine were purchased by the airline Ansett Australia, who used this version for a commercial. Vanessa Amorosi’s album Hazardous, became her 3rd ARIA Top 10 album debuting at #7, it was also the week’s highest album debut by an Australian artist and has been accredited Platinum by the ARIA. The album has produced the singles This Is Who I Am, Hazardous and Mr. Mysterious.

Based in VIC travels Australia wide (extra fees involved).