| "Drive" | ||||
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| Single by Gretta Ray | ||||
| from the album Here and Now | ||||
| Released | August 2016 | |||
| Length | 5:02 | |||
| Label | Gretta Ray | |||
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| "Drive" on YouTube | ||||
"Drive" is a song by Australian musician Gretta Ray, released in August 2016 as the lead single from Ray's debut EP Here and Now (2018).
In October 2016, the song won first place in the Vanda & Young Global Songwriting Competition. [1] [2]
Satyam Kavyen "Kav" Temperley is the lead singer, songwriter, bassist and occasional keyboard player of the Australian band Eskimo Joe.
Joel Quartermain is an Australian guitarist, back-up singer, recording drummer and pianist of the band Eskimo Joe. He spent a lot of his childhood focused on radio and tapes. In 1989, he moved to Perth, Western Australia, where he attended Hollywood Senior High School. Quartermain started playing in bands from the age of 12, forming an outfit called Hollywood Boulevard, shifting from keyboards to guitar along the way. This band then evolved into a funk band called Carpet, which consisted of Quartermain on guitar, bassist Simon Leach and Simon's brother Stuart on drums. They were subsequently joined by Kavyen Temperley on vocals, changing the name of the band again to Freud's Pillows. As Freud's Pillow they released an EP, Pleasure Puppy in 1997. Despite their modest popularity, Quartermain and Temperley were unhappy with the style of music being played by the band. Quartermain started wearing You Am I T-shirts in protest. Meanwhile, Temperley was jamming on a side project with former school friend Stuart MacLeod, who had co-written some of the songs for Freud's Pillow. The two unsuccessfully auditioned a number of drummers to join them eventually settling on Quartermain, the guitarist in Freud's Pillow, who they concluded was more musical than any other drummers they had auditioned.
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