David Campbell (Australian musician)
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David Joseph Campbell (born 6 August 1973 in South Australia
South Australia
South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories.South Australia shares borders with all of the mainland...

) is an Australian singer and stage performer. He has performed and recorded many different genres of music from rock to classics. He is the son of singer Jimmy Barnes
Jimmy Barnes
James Dixon Swan , better known as Jimmy Barnes, is a Scottish-born Australian rock singer-songwriter. His father Jim Swan was a prizefighter and his older brother John Swan is also a rock singer. It was actually John who had encouraged and taught Jim how to sing as he wasn't really interested at...

.

Theatre career

David Campbell won his first major roles in the early to mid 1990s at venues including the Sydney Opera House
Sydney Opera House
The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in the Australian city of Sydney. It was conceived and largely built by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, finally opening in 1973 after a long gestation starting with his competition-winning design in 1957...

 and the Sydney Theatre Company
Sydney Theatre Company
The Sydney Theatre Company is one of Australia's best-known theatre companies operating from The Wharf Theatre near The Rocks area of Sydney, as well as the Sydney Theatre and the Sydney Opera House Drama Theatre....

. In 1997, he travelled to New York to perform in cabaret, initially for a short run in a small cabaret room. However, after receiving glowing reviews from the New York press (Time Out New York claimed he was "creating the biggest buzz since Streisand"), he moved to the prestigious Rainbow & Stars room - becoming the youngest performer ever to headline at that venue.

David Campbell's New York success led to more high-profile roles in the USA, Australia and elsewhere, including in musicals such as Les Misérables
Les Misérables (musical)
Les Misérables , colloquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz , is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg, based on the novel of the same name by Victor Hugo....

, South Pacific
South Pacific (musical)
South Pacific is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan. The story draws from James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1947 book Tales of the South Pacific, weaving together characters and elements from several of its...

, and Guys and Dolls - and in Cameron Mackintosh
Cameron Mackintosh
Sir Cameron Anthony Mackintosh is a British theatrical producer notable for his association with many commercially successful musicals. At the height of his success in 1990, he was described as being "the most successful, influential and powerful theatrical producer in the world" by the New York...

's Royal Command Performance Hey, Mr. Producer! in London. In 2000 he provided the singing voice for the character Joseph in DreamWorks' animated film Joseph: King of Dreams
Joseph: King of Dreams
Joseph: King of Dreams is a 2000 American animated musical film and the first direct-to-video release from DreamWorks Animation. The film is an adaptation of the story of Joseph from the Book of Genesis in the Bible and also serves as a prequel to the 1998 film The Prince of Egypt.- Plot :Joseph is...

.

In 2001, David Campbell took the major starring role in the Australian musical Shout!, the story of 'The Wild One' - rocker Johnny O'Keefe
Johnny O'Keefe
John Michael O'Keefe, known as Johnny O'Keefe was an Australian rock and roll singer whose career began in the 1950s. Some of his hits include "Wild One" , "Shout!" and "She's My Baby"...

. This production became a cultural phenomenon in Australia, and made Campbell a household name. Since becoming a successful recording artist, he has continued to make occasional stage appearances in Australia, in musicals such as Carousel
Carousel (musical)
Carousel is the second stage musical by the team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II . The work premiered in 1945 and was adapted from Ferenc Molnár's 1909 play Liliom, transplanting its Budapest setting to the Maine coastline...

, Sunset Boulevard
Sunset Boulevard (musical)
Sunset Boulevard is a musical with book and lyrics by Don Black and Christopher Hampton and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Based on the 1950 film of the same title, the plot revolves around Norma Desmond, a faded star of the silent screen era, living in the past in her decaying mansion on the...

, and Company
Company (musical)
Company is a musical with a book by George Furth and music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. The original production was nominated for a record-setting fourteen Tony Awards and won six....

.

Recording career

David Campbell released two albums in 1997, "Taking the Wheel" and "Yesterday Is Now".

During 2003, Campbell released two mainstream singles, "Hope" and "When She's Gone". A full-length album "A Better Place" was planned but never materialized. He released another single, "End of the World" in 2005.

In 2006, David Campbell released The Swing Sessions
The Swing Sessions
The Swing Sessions is the first studio album by Australian singer/actor David Campbell. It was released in Australia in November 2006, and achieved platinum status.It was followed a year later by The Swing Sessions 2-Track listing:...

, an album produced by Chong Lim
Chong Lim
Chong Lim is an Australian keyboardist, producer, and session musician. He played with James Valentine of Models at Melbourne University, then joined Vanetta Field's Gospel Band. He has toured with the Eurogliders, Jermaine Jackson, WJAZ, and John Farnham...

, covering 13 classic swing tracks such as "Mack the Knife
Mack the Knife
"Mack the Knife" or "The Ballad of Mack the Knife", originally "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer", is a song composed by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht for their music drama Die Dreigroschenoper, or, as it is known in English, The Threepenny Opera. It premiered in Berlin in 1928 at the...

", "Call Me Irresponsible
Call Me Irresponsible
"Call Me Irresponsible" is a 1962 song composed by Jimmy Van Heusen with lyrics written by Sammy Cahn.According to the Mel Tormé book The Other Side of the Rainbow with Judy Garland on the Dawn Patrol, Van Heusen originally wrote the song for Garland to sing at a CBS dinner...

", "Mr Bojangles", and "Can't Take My Eyes Off You
Can't Take My Eyes off You
"Can't Take My Eyes Off You" is a 1967 single by Frankie Valli. The song was among Valli's biggest hits, reaching #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and earning a gold record. It was Valli's biggest "solo" hit until he hit #1 in 1975 with "My Eyes Adored You"...

". Both this album, and The Swing Sessions 2
The Swing Sessions 2
The Swing Sessions 2 is the second studio album from Australian swing singer/actor David Campbell and was released in October 2007.The Swing Sessions 2 followed the suit of its predecessor The Swing Sessions as a nod to many great swing singers of the past; with tracks recorded by Campbell with a...

 (released in November 2007), achieved platinum sales and charted in the Top 10 of the Australian ARIA Albums Chart.

In 2008, David Campbell released Good Lovin'
Good Lovin' (David Campbell album)
Good Lovin' is the third studio album by Australian singer/actor David Campbell, released in November 2008. It is a collection of songs described by Campbell as 'blue-eyed soul', mostly from the 1960s....

, an album of songs from the 1960s which he described as 'blue-eyed soul'. This became his third platinum album, and again charted in the Australian Top 10. A live DVD of the accompanying Good Lovin' Live tour hit number one on the Australian DVD chart.

Campbell's next album, On Broadway
On Broadway (David Campbell album)
On Broadway is the fourth studio album from Australian singer/actor David Campbell, released in Australia on 2 April 2010. On Broadway marks a departure by Campbell from his previous albums of swing and rock music, back to the genre of musical theatre through which he first rose to fame...

, was recorded at East West Studios
United Western Recorders
United Western Recorders, often abbreviated to UWR, was a renowned recording studio complex in Hollywood, California, which became one of the most successful independent recording studios in the world in the late 1950s and 1960s....

 in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...

 in January 2010, and produced by leading musical director Rob Fisher and veteran arranger Bill Elliott. On Broadway was released in Australia on 2 April 2010, with a tie-in television documentary David Campbell On Broadway airing on arts channel STVDIO the following day.

Campbell's most recent release is an album of early 1980s music called Let's Go, which was released in Australia on 18 November 2011.

Television appearances

David Campbell was a contestant on the third season of Dancing With The Stars
Dancing with the Stars (Australian TV series)
Dancing with the Stars is a Logie Award-winning, Australian light entertainment reality show airing on the Seven Network and filmed live from the HSV-7 studios in Melbourne...

, where he was partnered with World Salsa
Salsa (dance)
Salsa is a syncretic dance form with origins in Cuba as the meeting point of Spanish and African cultures.Salsa is normally a partner dance, although there are recognized solo forms such as solo dancing "suelta" and "Rueda de Casino" where multiple couples exchange partners in a circle...

 Champion, Luda Kroitor
Luda Kroitor
Luda Kroitor is the reigning five time world Salsa champion. She is popularly known for her role as dance instructor on Dancing with the Stars and is currently partnered with Home and Away actor Dan Ewing...

. He has also featured on two series of the celebrity singing competition It Takes Two as a professional performer. He won the second series in 2007, with celebrity partner Jolene Anderson
Jolene Anderson
Jolene Anderson is an Australian actress.Since 2006 she has played the character of Erica Templeton on the drama series All Saints...

, an actress on Australian drama All Saints
All Saints (TV series)
All Saints is an Australian medical drama which first screened on the Seven Network. The series debuted on 24 February 1998 and concluded its run on 27 October 2009...

. The pair received several scores of 10 and received perfect 10s from all four judges on one occasion.

He has also been a Red Faces judge on Hey Hey It's Saturday
Hey Hey It's Saturday
Hey Hey It's Saturday was a long-running variety television program on Australian television. It initially ran for 27 years , debuting on the Nine Network on 9 October 1971 and broadcasting its last episode on 20 November 1999. Its host throughout its entire run was Daryl Somers, who would later...

, and has co-hosted the The Morning Show
The Morning Show (TV program)
The Morning Show is an Australian morning talk show that premiered on the Seven Network on 18 June 2007. The show airs between 9am and 11:30am weekdays and follows Seven's breakfast news program Sunrise, with both programs closely interlinked....

 with Kylie Gillies
Kylie Gillies
Kylie Gillies is a television presenter for the Seven Network based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She currently co-hosts The Morning Show with Larry Emdur.-Career:...

 on a number of occasions when Larry Emdur
Larry Emdur
Larry Emdur is an Australian television personality. He is currently co-hosting Saturday's Weekend Sunrise alongside Samantha Armytage....

 is away.

Adelaide Cabaret Festival

David Campbell was appointed Artistic Director of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival
Adelaide Cabaret Festival
The Adelaide Cabaret Festival is an annual cabaret festival held in the South Australian capital of Adelaide. It is the largest festival of its type in the world, with more than 48,000 attendees....

 (the world's largest cabaret festival) in 2008, and his programming began with the June 2009 festival. This festival broke attendance and box office records, becoming the most successful Cabaret festival to date - records which were in turn broken by the 2010 and 2011 festivals. The 2011 Cabaret Festival was his last as Artistic Director; Kate Ceberano
Kate Ceberano
Kate Ceberano is an Australian singer. She achieved success in the soul, jazz and pop genres as well as in her brief forays into musicals with Jesus Christ Superstar and film...

 then took over the position.

Personal life

David Campbell's father is Australian singer Jimmy Barnes
Jimmy Barnes
James Dixon Swan , better known as Jimmy Barnes, is a Scottish-born Australian rock singer-songwriter. His father Jim Swan was a prizefighter and his older brother John Swan is also a rock singer. It was actually John who had encouraged and taught Jim how to sing as he wasn't really interested at...

, but he was raised by his maternal grandmother, to whom he has attributed his love of swing music. Campbell has performed with his father on numerous occasions, including on an episode of Dancing With The Stars
Dancing with the Stars (Australian TV series)
Dancing with the Stars is a Logie Award-winning, Australian light entertainment reality show airing on the Seven Network and filmed live from the HSV-7 studios in Melbourne...

 and at Carols by Candlelight
Carols by Candlelight
Carols by Candlelight is an Australian Christmas tradition that originated in southeastern Australia in the 19th century and was popularised in Melbourne in the 1930s. The tradition has since spread around the world. It involves people gathering, usually outdoors in a park, to sing carols by...

. They have also recorded duets for both Barnes's and Campbell's studio albums

David Campbell married British producer Lisa Hewitt at St Philip's Anglican Church
St Philip's Church, Sydney
St Philip's Church, Sydney is the oldest Anglican church parish in Australia. The church is located in the Sydney CBD, between York Street, Clarence and Jamison Streets on a location known as Church Hill. St Philip's is part of the Diocese of Sydney, Australia...

 in Sydney on Saturday 29 November 2008. The couple run their own company, Luckiest Productions, through which they produce all of Campbell's national tours, as well as other music, cabaret and television projects. David and his wife Lisa welcomed their first child Leo Richard James Campbell on 3 June 2010.

Awards

  • 2009: South Australian of the Year (Arts Category) (nominated)
  • 2009: Appointed a South Australian Business Ambassador by the Premier of South Australia
  • 2008: Helpmann Award for Best Performance in an Australian Contemporary Concert - The Swing Sessions Live
  • 2007: Helpmann Award for Best Performance in an Australian Contemporary Concert - Wild With Style
  • 2006: Helpmann Award for Best Actor in a Musical - Sunset Boulevard
    Sunset Boulevard (musical)
    Sunset Boulevard is a musical with book and lyrics by Don Black and Christopher Hampton and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Based on the 1950 film of the same title, the plot revolves around Norma Desmond, a faded star of the silent screen era, living in the past in her decaying mansion on the...

  • 2005: Green Room Award for Male Artist in a Leading Role (Music Theatre) - Carousel
    Carousel (musical)
    Carousel is the second stage musical by the team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II . The work premiered in 1945 and was adapted from Ferenc Molnár's 1909 play Liliom, transplanting its Budapest setting to the Maine coastline...

  • 2002: Green Room Award for Male Artist in a Leading Role (Music Theatre) - Shout!
  • 2001: Mo Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical - Shout!
  • 2000: MAC Award for Special Production (with John Bucchino
    John Bucchino
    John Bucchino is an American composer. His hometown is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.He has done work for several off-Broadway shows and highly acclaimed concerts...

    ) - Sweet Dreams: The Songs of John Bucchino
  • 1999: Variety Club of NSW Heart Award for Entertainer of the Year
  • 1999: Young Australian of the Year (Arts Category)
  • 1999: MAC Award for Major Male Vocalist (nominated)
  • 1998: MAC Award for Major Male Vocalist (nominated)
  • 1998: Mo Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical - Les Misérables
    Les Misérables (musical)
    Les Misérables , colloquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz , is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg, based on the novel of the same name by Victor Hugo....

  • 1998: Backstage Bistro Award for Outstanding Achievement
  • 1997: MAC Award for Male New York Debut (nominated)
  • 1995: Mo Award for Best Musical Theatre Performer - Only Heaven Knows (nominated)
  • 1993: Young Achievers Award
  • 1993: Australia Day Citation for Contribution to Youth Arts

Discography

Solo albums
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The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...



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! scope="row" | Yesterday Is Now
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  • Released: 1997
  • Label: Independent
  • Format: CD
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  • Released: 1997
  • Label: Polydor
  • Format: CD

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! scope="row" | A Better Place
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  • Released: Unreleased (planned March 8, 2004)
  • Label: Sony
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! scope="row" | The Swing Sessions
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The Swing Sessions is the first studio album by Australian singer/actor David Campbell. It was released in Australia in November 2006, and achieved platinum status.It was followed a year later by The Swing Sessions 2-Track listing:...


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  • Released: November 4, 2006
  • Label: Sony
  • Format: CD, digital download
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! scope="row" | The Swing Sessions 2
The Swing Sessions 2
The Swing Sessions 2 is the second studio album from Australian swing singer/actor David Campbell and was released in October 2007.The Swing Sessions 2 followed the suit of its predecessor The Swing Sessions as a nod to many great swing singers of the past; with tracks recorded by Campbell with a...


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  • Released: November 3, 2007
  • Label: Sony
  • Format: CD, digital download
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! scope="row" | Good Lovin'
Good Lovin' (David Campbell album)
Good Lovin' is the third studio album by Australian singer/actor David Campbell, released in November 2008. It is a collection of songs described by Campbell as 'blue-eyed soul', mostly from the 1960s....


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  • Released: November 15, 2008
  • Label: Sony
  • Format: CD, digital download
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    A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment...


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! scope="row" | On Broadway
On Broadway (David Campbell album)
On Broadway is the fourth studio album from Australian singer/actor David Campbell, released in Australia on 2 April 2010. On Broadway marks a departure by Campbell from his previous albums of swing and rock music, back to the genre of musical theatre through which he first rose to fame...


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  • Released: April 2, 2010
  • Label: Sony
  • Format: CD, digital download
    Music download
    A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment...


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! scope="row" | Let's Go
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  • Released: November 18, 2011
  • Label: Sony
  • Format: CD, digital download

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Original cast albums
  • Hey Mr Producer! (1998) Philips
  • Babes in Arms - City Center Encores! Cast (1999) Drg
  • Saturday Night - Off-Broadway Revival Cast (2000) Nonesuch
  • Shout! - Australian Cast Recording (2001) Sony Music


Singles
  • "Hope" (13 June 2003) #8 (ARIA singles chart)
  • "When She's Gone" (19 September 2003) #25 (ARIA singles chart)
  • "End of the World" (23 October 2005)
  • "You've Lost That Loving Feeling" (with Jimmy Barnes
    Jimmy Barnes
    James Dixon Swan , better known as Jimmy Barnes, is a Scottish-born Australian rock singer-songwriter. His father Jim Swan was a prizefighter and his older brother John Swan is also a rock singer. It was actually John who had encouraged and taught Jim how to sing as he wasn't really interested at...

    ) (29 November 2008)


DVDs
  • Good Lovin' Live (24 April 2009) #1 (ARIA music DVD chart)


Special editions
  • Keep On Lovin' (Tour Edition) (6 November 2009) - Double disc: Good Lovin' Live DVD highlights & Good Lovin'
    Good Lovin' (David Campbell album)
    Good Lovin' is the third studio album by Australian singer/actor David Campbell, released in November 2008. It is a collection of songs described by Campbell as 'blue-eyed soul', mostly from the 1960s....

    CD with bonus tracks

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