Jen Cloher is an Australian singer-songwriter who records with her band as Jen Cloher and the Endless Sea.

Biography

Cloher was born an only child and grew up in Adelaide

Adelaide

Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia. Adelaide has an estimated population of more than 1.2 million...

. She attended Sydney

Sydney

Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

's National Institute of Dramatic Art

National Institute of Dramatic Art

The National Institute of Dramatic Art is an Australian national training institute for students of theatre, film, and television, based in the Sydney suburb of Kensington. It is supported by the federal Office for the Arts, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. NIDA is located adjacent...

 (NIDA) and started playing the guitar at age 21. Her band, the Endless Sea, is made up of Jen Sholakis on drums, Geoffrey Dunbar on bass, Andrea Sumner on violin, Ross Calia on piano and Michael Hubbard on guitar. With the Endless Sea, Cloher released a 2005 EP, Permanent Marker. This was followed by a 2006 album Dead Wood Falls. Cloher was nominated for the award for Best Female Artist at the 2006 ARIA Music Awards

ARIA Music Awards of 2006

The 20th Annual Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards were held on 29 October 2006 at the Acer Arena at the Sydney Olympic Park complex...

 but lost to Clare Bowditch

Clare Bowditch

Clare Bowditch is an Australian musician from Melbourne, Victoria. She released her fourth album Modern Day Addiction via Island Records on 13 August 2010. It became both 3RRR Album of the Week and ABC Radio National's Album of the Week. MDA is the first of Bowditch's album's to enter the Top Ten...

. Her second album Hidden Hands was released in July 2009 and was inspired by Cloher's relationship with her parents and her mother's diagnosis with Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer's disease also known in medical literature as Alzheimer disease is the most common form of dementia. There is no cure for the disease, which worsens as it progresses, and eventually leads to death...

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