Katie Noonan
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Katie Anne Noonan is an Australia
n singer-songwriter
. In addition to a successful solo career encompassing opera, jazz, pop, rock and dance, she sings in the groups george
and Elixir, duets with her mother, Maggie Noonan and is currently playing with support from the group The Captains.
After graduation, Noonan began fronting the pop-rock group george
along with her brother Tyrone Noonan
. In 2002, the group's debut release Polyserena opened at No. 1 on the ARIA albums chart, instantly establishing Katie as a star.
with her brother Tyrone Noonan
, with whom she shares lead vocals, in 1996 to enter a university music competition. After a series of successful independently released EPs, they signed to Festival Mushroom Records and released the debut album Polyserena in 2002, which entered the ARIA charts at #1. george
won the Best New Artist ARIA award in 2003, performing Breathe In Now at the ceremony.
and Katie Noonan teamed up for the jazz cycle Before Time Could Change Us, words by Dorothy Porter
.
to take part in the Broad Festival project, with three other Australian female artists they performed their own and each other's songs. With Conway and Noonan were Sara Storer
, Ruby Hunter
and Clare Bowditch
.
She has recently released a solo album - Skin which was recorded at Sydney's Linear Recording
in 2006. Produced by Andrew Klippel, Skin was released on 11 August 2007, and debuted at #6 on the ARIA top 50 album charts and #1 on the Australian ARIA Top 20 Album chart. The debut single Time To Begin debuted at #30 on the ARIA Top 50. Plans to release Love's My Song For You / Crazy never eventuated beyond a radio promotional single.
Following the success of the remix of Time To Begin, Katie collaborated with John Course & Mr Timothy, re-recording her vocal tracks & re-releasing her debut solo album in dance form under the title Second Skin. The song Logic served as the first (radio promo only) single for this LP.
great Tim Finn
, rising star Sia Furler
, Cold Chisel
icon Don Walker
, pop troubador Josh Pyke
and acclaimed Australian writer/poet Tom Shapcott are some of the big names who share writing credits on the new effort. The album comprises 13 personal, emotive works. Co-produced by Katie and Grammy Award-winning rock specialist Nick DiDia
(Pearl Jam
, Bruce Springsteen
, Stone Temple Pilots
, Powderfinger
), Emperor's Box marks a return to some familiar territory for Katie.
at King's Park
Botanic Gardens, Perth
, and was invited on stage by Cyndi to sing along to Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.
Katie is currently featured as the vocalist in Telstra's 'I Am Australian' series of advertisements, and has recently switched labels to SonyBMG, and has plans to release a new jazz LP in 2008.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
. In addition to a successful solo career encompassing opera, jazz, pop, rock and dance, she sings in the groups george
George (band)
George are a rock band from Brisbane, Australia. Their first album, Polyserena reached #1 in the Australian Charts on 17 March 2002.-History:...
and Elixir, duets with her mother, Maggie Noonan and is currently playing with support from the group The Captains.
Career
Katie Noonan grew up with a strong background in classical music with her mother, Maggie Noonan, being a well-known opera singer. She studied opera and jazz at the Queensland Conservatorium.After graduation, Noonan began fronting the pop-rock group george
George
-People:*See George *See George *See Saint George -Places:Australia*Lake George, New South WalesCanada*George's Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador*George Street, St. John's, Newfoundland and LabradorSouth Africa...
along with her brother Tyrone Noonan
Tyrone Noonan
Tyrone Noonan is an Australian musician, best known for his vocals, guitars, keyboards and songwriting in the Brisbane band George. He has also worked as a composer for Australian theatre companies La Boite and Queensland Theatre Company...
. In 2002, the group's debut release Polyserena opened at No. 1 on the ARIA albums chart, instantly establishing Katie as a star.
george
Noonan founded the band georgeGeorge
-People:*See George *See George *See Saint George -Places:Australia*Lake George, New South WalesCanada*George's Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador*George Street, St. John's, Newfoundland and LabradorSouth Africa...
with her brother Tyrone Noonan
Tyrone Noonan
Tyrone Noonan is an Australian musician, best known for his vocals, guitars, keyboards and songwriting in the Brisbane band George. He has also worked as a composer for Australian theatre companies La Boite and Queensland Theatre Company...
, with whom she shares lead vocals, in 1996 to enter a university music competition. After a series of successful independently released EPs, they signed to Festival Mushroom Records and released the debut album Polyserena in 2002, which entered the ARIA charts at #1. george
George
-People:*See George *See George *See Saint George -Places:Australia*Lake George, New South WalesCanada*George's Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador*George Street, St. John's, Newfoundland and LabradorSouth Africa...
won the Best New Artist ARIA award in 2003, performing Breathe In Now at the ceremony.
Elixir
Katie founded the jazz trio Elixir in 1997, which released their debut self titled album in 2003. Elixir's second album, "First Seed Ripening" was released on 5 August 2011.Katie and Maggie Noonan
Noonan has released an album with her mother Maggie Noonan - a collection of jazz & operatic duets.Katie Noonan and Paul Grabowsky
Paul GrabowskyPaul Grabowsky
-Biography:Grabowsky was born on 27 September 1958 in Lae, Papua New Guinea; his father Alistair had lived in Papua New Guinea with his wife Charlotte since the 1930s working on oil rigs, building roads, flying planes and playing the drums...
and Katie Noonan teamed up for the jazz cycle Before Time Could Change Us, words by Dorothy Porter
Dorothy Porter
Dorothy Featherstone Porter was an Australian poet.-Early life:Porter was born in Sydney. Her father was barrister Chester Porter and her mother, Jean, was a high school chemistry teacher. Porter attended the Queenwood School for Girls...
.
Skin, Second Skin
In 2005, Noonan was invited by Deborah ConwayDeborah Conway
Deborah Ann Conway, is an Australian rock singer-songwriter and guitarist, and had a career as a model and actor. She was a founding member of the 1980s rock band Do-Ré-Mi with their surprise top 5 hit "Man Overboard"....
to take part in the Broad Festival project, with three other Australian female artists they performed their own and each other's songs. With Conway and Noonan were Sara Storer
Sara Storer
Sara Storer is an Australian country music singer. She won seven Golden Guitars in the Tamworth Country Music Festival 2004 awards in Tamworth, the most awards ever won in one year in the 32-year history of the awards. As of the 2010 Golden Guitar awards, Storer has won a total of eleven...
, Ruby Hunter
Ruby Hunter
Ruby Charlotte Margaret Hunter was an Australian singer and songwriter. She was a member of the Ngarrindjeri Aboriginal nationality, and often performed with her partner, Archie Roach, whom she met at the age of 16, while both were homeless teenagers...
and 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...
.
She has recently released a solo album - Skin which was recorded at Sydney's Linear Recording
Linear Recording
Linear Recording is a recording studio complex located in Sydney, Australia, which was established by recording engineer Christopher Vallejo and Emren Kara in 2005. Linear Recording is one of Australia's only dedicated all-analogue recording studios...
in 2006. Produced by Andrew Klippel, Skin was released on 11 August 2007, and debuted at #6 on the ARIA top 50 album charts and #1 on the Australian ARIA Top 20 Album chart. The debut single Time To Begin debuted at #30 on the ARIA Top 50. Plans to release Love's My Song For You / Crazy never eventuated beyond a radio promotional single.
Following the success of the remix of Time To Begin, Katie collaborated with John Course & Mr Timothy, re-recording her vocal tracks & re-releasing her debut solo album in dance form under the title Second Skin. The song Logic served as the first (radio promo only) single for this LP.
Katie Noonan and The Captains: Emperor's Box
Katie Noonan and the Captains have released one album, "Emperor's Box". Emperor's Box was 3 years in the making is Katie's second release for Sony Music, and is the follow-up to the Brisbane-based artist's Blackbird, her well-received jazz and 2009 Aria-winning project issued in 2008. This time round, Katie has penned all the songs. As has been the case throughout much of her stellar career, the songstress has teamed with some of the best in the business. The likes of Split EnzSplit Enz
Split Enz were a New Zealand band of the 1970s and early 1980s featuring Phil Judd and brothers Tim Finn and Neil Finn. They achieved chart success in New Zealand, Australia, and Canada during the early 1980s ‒ most notably with the single "I Got You", and built a cult following elsewhere...
great Tim Finn
Tim Finn
Brian Timothy "Tim" Finn, OBE is a New Zealand singer and musician. Finn is most known for his music with New Zealand 1970s and 1980s rock group Split Enz, and later for his solo work, a temporary membership in his brother Neil's band Crowded House and his joint efforts with Neil Finn as the Finn...
, rising star Sia Furler
Sia Furler
Sia Kate Isobelle Furler or simply Sia, is an Australian pop, downtempo, and jazz singer and songwriter. In 2000, her single, "Taken for Granted" was a top 10 hit in the United Kingdom. Her 2008 album, Some People Have Real Problems peaked in the top 30 on the Billboard 200...
, Cold Chisel
Cold Chisel
Cold Chisel is a rock band that originated in Adelaide, Australia. It is one of the most acclaimed Australian rock bands of all time, with a string of hits throughout the 1970s and 1980s and huge sales that continue to this day, although its success and acclaim was almost completely restricted to...
icon Don Walker
Don Walker (musician)
Don Walker is an Australian musician and songwriter known for writing many of the hits for Australian pub rock band Cold Chisel. He played piano and keyboard with the band from 1973 to 1983, when they disbanded. He has since continued to record and tour, both solo and with Tex, Don and Charlie,...
, pop troubador Josh Pyke
Josh Pyke
Josh Pyke is an Australian singer-songwriting musician.-Beginnings and Feeding the Wolves :Josh Pyke was in his first band by age 12 and played his first performance in front of 650 parents and students at his primary school graduation. Playing guitar and initial song writing efforts came aged 14...
and acclaimed Australian writer/poet Tom Shapcott are some of the big names who share writing credits on the new effort. The album comprises 13 personal, emotive works. Co-produced by Katie and Grammy Award-winning rock specialist Nick DiDia
Nick DiDia
Nick DiDia is an American record producer mostly known for his work with Australian rock group Powderfinger and American pop-rock group Nine Days...
(Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam is an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1990. Since its inception, the band's line-up has included Eddie Vedder , Jeff Ament , Stone Gossard , and Mike McCready...
, Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen , nicknamed "The Boss," is an American singer-songwriter who records and tours with the E Street Band...
, Stone Temple Pilots
Stone Temple Pilots
Stone Temple Pilots is an American rock band from San Diego, California that consists of Scott Weiland , brothers Robert DeLeo and Dean DeLeo , and Eric Kretz ....
, Powderfinger
Powderfinger
Powderfinger was an Australian rock band that formed in Brisbane in 1989. From 1992 until their breakup the band lineup consisted of vocalist Bernard Fanning, guitarists Darren Middleton and Ian Haug, bassist John Collins, and drummer Jon Coghill....
), Emperor's Box marks a return to some familiar territory for Katie.
Covers and Other Contributions
On 22 February 2008 she was a support act for Cyndi LauperCyndi Lauper
Cynthia Ann Stephanie "Cyndi" Lauper is an American singer, songwriter, actress and LGBT rights activist. She achieved success in the mid-1980s with the release of the album She's So Unusual and became the first female singer to have four top-five singles released from one album...
at King's Park
Kings Park, Western Australia
Kings Park is a park located on the western edge of Perth, Western Australia central business district. The park is a mixture of grassed parkland, botanical gardens and natural bushland on Mount Eliza with two thirds of the grounds conserved as native bushland. With panoramic views of the Swan...
Botanic Gardens, Perth
Perth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
, and was invited on stage by Cyndi to sing along to Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.
Katie is currently featured as the vocalist in Telstra's 'I Am Australian' series of advertisements, and has recently switched labels to SonyBMG, and has plans to release a new jazz LP in 2008.
Personal life
Katie is married to Isaac Hurren, her longtime partner and collaborator in Elixir. They have two young sons, Dexter Reed and Jonah Atticus Roc.Katie Noonan - Solo projects
- SkinSkin (Katie Noonan album)-Track listing:# "Logic"# "Return"# "Time to Begin"# "Love's My Song for You"# "Little Boy Man"# "Sunshine"# "One Step"# "Home"# "Send Out a Little Love"# "Who Are You?"# "Bluebird"# "A Little Smile"...
(2007) - #6 Australia - Second Skin (2008)
- Blackbird: The Music of Lennon & McCartney (2008)
george
- georgeSelf-titled/HomebrewSelf-titled/Homebrew or as it is often simply known as "George" was the first CD release from Brisbane band George. The band was formed in 1996 for a Music contest and as it had finally broken down from a larger-pieced band to a five-piece band, their debut EP was created in 1998. The band then...
(1998) - You Can Take What's Mine EP (1999)
- Bastard Son/Holiday EP (2000)
- PolyserenaPolyserenaPolyserena is a 2002 album by George.The band's first album, Polyserena debuted at #1 in the national album charts in its first week; George became only the tenth Australian band to do so with a debut album. It achieved gold record status within ten days, and platinum record status within three weeks...
(2002) - #1 Australia (2x Platinum) - UnityUnity (George album)-The making of the album:The band recorded the album in Byron Bay during 2003. The album was produced by David Nicholas assisted by Justin Tresidder. Melbourne composer Paul Grabowsky also assisted with orchestral and horn arrangements....
(2004) - #5 Australia
Guest vocals, duets and samples
- Pound System - "Know Who You Are" (2001)
- KatalystKatalyst (musician)Katalyst is an Australian DJ/Producer. He won awards at the 2002 Australian Dance Music Awards for Best Album and Best Producer.- Biography :...
- "What's Happening" - "To Dust" (2007) - Katie Noonan and the Captains - "Sweet One" (Duet recorded with Sia FurlerSia FurlerSia Kate Isobelle Furler or simply Sia, is an Australian pop, downtempo, and jazz singer and songwriter. In 2000, her single, "Taken for Granted" was a top 10 hit in the United Kingdom. Her 2008 album, Some People Have Real Problems peaked in the top 30 on the Billboard 200...
in 2005) (2010 - awaiting release)
Soundtracks and compilation contributions
- Garage DaysGarage DaysGarage Days is a 2002 Australian film directed by Alex Proyas and written by Proyas, Dave Warner and Michael Udesky. The Garage Days soundtrack includes the song "Garage Days" featuring Katie Noonan, David McCormack and Andrew Lancaster.-Plot:...
soundtrack - "Garage Days" (featuring David McCormackDavid McCormackDavid McCormack is an Australian musician and singer-songwriter who fronted Brisbane-based rock group Custard .-Early groups:...
& Andrew LancasterAndrew LancasterAndrew Lancaster is an Australian director.He has been awarded in the Asia-Pacific Film Festival twice. More specific, in 1993 he won the "Best Short Film" award for the film Palace Cafe and in 2002 the "Best Film Award" for the film In Search of Mike....
(2002)