greatest australian singers...

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come on Olivia

Olivia was at #46

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Lisa and Rolf

Lisa who? Lisa Mitchell??

and Rolf Harris...he's got a lot more to worry about than be in a list of best singers, he's currently on bail in the UK facing charges of paedophillia and possessing child porn on his computer, he's due to appear on those charges early next year...he has been charged with offenses between the years of early 1980s through to 2012...
he got caught as part of the BBC/Jimmy Saville sex crimes investigation!
you can read about it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Saville jimmy saville

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Yewtree UK police investigation into high profile persons

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_harris rolf harris

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number 16: JESSICA MAUBOY



Jessica Hilda Mauboy[SUP][1][/SUP] (born 4 August 1989) is an Australian R&B and pop singer, songwriter, and actress. In 2006, Mauboy was the runner-up on the fourth season of Australian Idol, she had auditioned for the talent show in Alice Springs, Northern Territory to pursue a recording career. Mauboy subsequently signed a contract with Sony Music Australia.
In February 2007, she released her debut live album, The Journey, which debuted at number four on the ARIA Albums Chart, and was certified gold by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Later that year, she briefly became a member of all-girl pop group Young Divas, before resuming her solo career early in 2008. Mauboy released her debut studio album, Been Waiting, in November 2008, which spawned her first number-one single, "Burn", as well as the top ten hits, "Running Back" and "Because". Been Waiting became the second highest-selling Australian album of 2009,[SUP][2][/SUP] and was certified double platinum. Her second studio album, Get 'Em Girls (2010), included the hit singles, "Saturday Night" and "Inescapable". Mauboy's third studio album, Beautiful, was released in 2013 and included her sixth top ten single, "Pop a Bottle (Fill Me Up)".
Mauboy has received twelve ARIA Music Awards nominations; she has won one ARIA for 'Highest Selling Single' for "Running Back". In April 2013, she was ranked at number sixteen on Herald Sun's list of the "100 Greatest Australian Singers of All Time".[SUP][3][/SUP] Aside from her music career, Mauboy has also ventured into acting. She made her acting debut in the film adaptation of the 1990 Aboriginal musical, Bran Nue Dae (2010), and starred in the critically acclaimed film, The Sapphires (2012), which earned her the AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.

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my thoughts on Jessica....

i think she has good vocal tone and stage persona, but she is not my cup of tea...too poppy for my liking!

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number 15: VANESSA AMOROSI



Vanessa Amorosi (born 8 August 1981)[SUP][1][/SUP] is an Australian singer-songwriter and recording artist. Her combined album and single sales have reached over 2 million worldwide....
Amorosi was born in Melbourne, Victoria in a Roman Catholic family of Italian origin, the daughter of singer Frank Amorosi. When Amorosi was four, along with her younger sisters, she would go to tap, jazz and classical ballet classes, which were being run by her uncle. She attended Emerald Primary and Emerald Secondary School.[SUP][3][/SUP] At the age of 12, Amorosi started to perform in shopping centers and local council concerts under the supervision of her family.[SUP][4][/SUP] Amorosi was discovered performing at Matrioshka,[SUP][5][/SUP] 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.
[SUP]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 second single "Absolutely Everybody", an anthemic dance song, reached the Top 10 and became the longest charting Australian single by an Australian female artist.[SUP][7][/SUP] It remained in the ARIA Top 50 Singles Chart for over six months after its release.[SUP][8][/SUP] "Absolutely Everybody" was released internationally and reached the Top 10 in many European countries including the UK 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. Vannessa Amorosi was one of many celebrities to appear in the commercial.

Her album The Power reached number one on the Australian album charts. Amorosi received six ARIA nominations in the year 2000 awards[SUP][9][/SUP] and The Power was nominated[SUP][10][/SUP] for "Best Female Artist" and "Best Pop Release" in the ARIA Music Awards of 2001. Her largest audience came in September 2000 with performances at the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2000 Sydney Olympics and at the Paralympic Games. At the opening ceremony of the aforementioned Olympics she sang the Olympic song titled "Heroes Live Forever". Amorosi won the APRA Award in 2001 for "Most Played Song" on Australian Radio with "Shine",[SUP][11][/SUP] and received international acclaim in Germany where she won "Best International Newcomer" at the 2001 VIVA Comet Awards.[SUP][12][/SUP] Later that year she also made a special appearance at the Goodwill Games Opening and Closing ceremonies in Brisbane. In 2001, she performed at the AFL Grand Final.
In August 2002, Amorosi traveled to Manchester where she was one of the stars of the Commonwealth Games Hand-Over Ceremony, performing her single "Shine" and a new song written especially for the event, "I'll always be a Melbourne girl".[SUP][13][/SUP][SUP][14][/SUP]
In February 2003, Amorosi performed her blues set for the first time at the Melbourne International Music and Blues Festival[SUP][15][/SUP] and traveled to Germany to perform her latest European single "True to Yourself" on Top of the Pops and the hugely successful long-running show Wetten, dass..? which screens throughout Europe.

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my thoughts on Vanessa...

this girl has one of the best female voices in rock/pop at the moment...
i dont own anything but i love her voice and most of her singles.

above is her biggest hit thus-so-far, below is my favourite single of hers...

[video=youtube;RG-OWg7JkGk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG-OWg7JkGk[/video]

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oh oh ...I blew it!!!!:redface:

Lisa who? Lisa Mitchell??

and Rolf Harris...he's got a lot more to worry about than be in a list of best singers, he's currently on bail in the UK facing charges of paedophillia and possessing child porn on his computer, he's due to appear on those charges early next year...he has been charged with offenses between the years of early 1980s through to 2012...
he got caught as part of the BBC/Jimmy Saville sex crimes investigation!
you can read about it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Saville jimmy saville

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Yewtree UK police investigation into high profile persons

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_harris rolf harris

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number 14: PAUL KELLY



THERE'S TOO MUCH INFO HERE TO COPY SO IVE PROVIDED A LINK TO WIKI'S PAUL KELLY INFO PAGE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kelly_...n_musician)


my thoughts on Kelly:
one of the best story tellers in the music business ever...
ive always thought of him as being "the aussie Bob Dylan", although not as indepth with his lyrics as Dylan, he has that off-key vocal style,plays folky bluegrass, acoustic guitar and harmonica are his instruments of choice and he does weave a nice web when he writes his songs...

from his back-catalogue, a lovely,yet sad story of a man spending his first christmas away from his family in jail...

[video=youtube;uoJxigEuVC4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoJxigEuVC4[/video]

[SteveO]

the last 3 you posted are all very good!!!!

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number 13: STEVIE WRIGHT



Stephen Carlton "Stevie" Wright[SUP][1][/SUP] (born 20 December 1948, Leeds, England),[SUP][2][/SUP][SUP][3][/SUP] formerly billed as Little Stevie,[SUP][2][/SUP] is an Australian musician and songwriter who has been called Australia's first international pop star.[SUP][4][/SUP] During 1964–1969 he was lead singer for Sydney-based rock and roll band The Easybeats, widely regarded as the greatest Australian pop band of 1960s.[SUP][2][/SUP][SUP][5][/SUP][SUP][6][/SUP][SUP][7][/SUP]
Early hits for The Easybeats were co-written by Wright with bandmate George Young, including, "She's So Fine"[SUP][8][/SUP] (No. 3, 1965), "Wedding Ring"[SUP][9][/SUP] (No. 7, 1965), "Women (Make You Feel Alright)"[SUP][10][/SUP] (No. 4, 1966), "Come and See Her"[SUP][11][/SUP] (No. 3, 1966), "I'll Make You Happy"[SUP][12][/SUP] (track on Easyfever EP, No. 1, 1966), and "Sorry" (No. 1, 1966).[SUP][5][/SUP][SUP][13][/SUP] He was lead vocalist on their only international hit "Friday on My Mind",[SUP][3][/SUP][SUP][5][/SUP] which peaked at No. 1 in Australia in 1966,[SUP][5][/SUP][SUP][13][/SUP] it made No. 6 in United Kingdom, the Top 10 in France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands, and Top 20 in United States in 1967.[SUP][2][/SUP][SUP][5][/SUP][SUP][6][/SUP]
After The Easybeats disbanded in 1969, Wright fronted numerous groups including Stevie Wright Band and Stevie Wright & the Allstars;[SUP][2][/SUP] his solo career included the 1974 single, "Evie (Parts 1, 2 & 3)", which peaked at No. 1 on the Kent Music Report Singles Chart.[SUP][14][/SUP] Wright has had problems with alcohol and drug addictions,[SUP][3][/SUP] by 1976 he was hospitalised and undertook methadone treatment, in the late 1970s he was treated at Chelmsford Private Hospital by Dr Harry Bailey who administered Deep Sleep Therapy with a combination of drug-induced coma and electroshock.
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