Catherine Yvette "Kate" Ceberano is an Australian singer who performs in the soul, jazz, and pop genres, as well as in film and musicals such as Jesus Christ Superstar. Her song "Pash" received a gold sales certification in 1998. In 2019, she was one of the contestants in season one of The Masked Singer Australia as ‘The Lion’, where she was unmasked in episode seven, placing sixth.
Wendy Joan Matthews is a Canadian-born Australian singer who has been a member of Models and Absent Friends and is a solo artist. She released Top 20 hit singles in the 1990s including "Token Angels", "Let's Kiss ", "The Day You Went Away" and "Friday's Child" with Top 20 albums, You've Always Got The Blues, Émigré, Lily, The Witness Tree and her compilation, Stepping Stones. She has won six Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Awards. According to rock music historian, Ian McFarlane she provides "extraordinary, crystal-clear vocals [...] a soulfulness that was the mark of a truly gifted singer".
Gina Jeffreys is an Australian country singer-songwriter.
"Angel Eyes" is a song written by John Hiatt and Fred Koller, and produced by Greg Ladanyi for The Jeff Healey Band's first album See the Light (1988). It was first released as the album's second single in June 1989 and peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 24 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks. It was later covered by Australian Idol series one contestant Paulini and became her first No. 1 single in Australia.
Stepping Stones is a greatest-hits package released by Australian artist Wendy Matthews in March 1999. The album features all of Matthews singles since 1989. A DVD collection featuring all the music videos was also released.
Wendy Matthews is a Canadian-born Australian adult contemporary singer and songwriter. Her discography consists of eight studio albums, one live album, two compilation albums, four video albums and twenty-four singles.
Lily is the second solo studio album by Australian singer-songwriter Wendy Matthews released by rooArt in Australia on 28 September 1992. Matthews travelled to Canada with her mother for the album to discover their heritage, which influences the album. Matthews states the album "overall, has vulnerability. .. [it is] really heart on your sleeve stuff". The album won Matthews the "Best Female Artist" award at the ARIA Awards in 1993, where the album was also nominated for "Album of the Year". It yielded four singles; "The Day You Went Away", "Friday's Child", "If Only I Could" and "T.K.O.".
Absent Friends were an Australian band from Sydney. The band was relatively short lived, forming in 1989 and disbanding in 1990. It featured a number of notable Australian musicians including Sean Kelly, Andrew Duffield, James Valentine, Garry Gary Beers (INXS), Geoffrey Stapleton (GANGgajang) and Wendy Matthews.
The Third Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards was held on 6 March 1989 at the Darling Harbour Convention Centre in Sydney. First Australian host Greedy Smith of Mental As Anything was assisted by presenters George Martin, Jono & Dano, Barry Bissell of Take 40 Australia, Peter Collins, Peter Jamieson, Jonathan King and Brian Smith to distribute 24 awards. There were no live performances and the awards were not televised.
The Fifth Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards was held on 25 March 1991 at the Darling Harbour Convention Centre in Sydney. International host Bob Geldof was assisted by presenters to distribute 24 awards. There were live performances but the awards were not televised and the ceremony was noted for its three-hours plus length with Gary Morris, manager of Midnight Oil providing a 20-minute acceptance speech.
The Seventh Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards was held on 14 April 1993 at the Entertainment Centre in Sydney. Host, Richard Wilkins, was assisted by presenters, James Reyne, Elle Macpherson, Billy Birmingham, Tim Finn, Neil Finn, Daryl Somers and others, to distribute 24 awards. There were live performances and the awards were televised.
The 12th Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards was held on 20 October 1998 at the Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre. Presenters, including Democrats deputy leader Natasha Stott Despoja and former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, distributed 29 awards with the big winner Natalie Imbruglia receiving six trophies.
"The Day You Went Away" is the first single released by Australian recording artist Wendy Matthews from her second solo studio album, Lily, originally recorded and released by Soul Family Sensation in 1992. The single was released 31 August 1992 on the rooART label and debuted on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart at No. 43 in September, before peaking at No. 2 in December 1992. This is Matthews' highest charting single on the Australian chart. In the United Kingdom and Europe, the song was released on RooART in 1993 but was not a hit. Matthews subsequently included the song on her 1999 Greatest Hits album, Stepping Stones and her 2007 compilation album, The Essential Wendy Matthews.
Roger Ashley Mason is an Australian keyboardist who has been a member of new wave groups Models, Absent Friends and Icehouse. He was a session and backing musician for United Kingdom's Gary Numan and for various Australian artists. From the early 1990s he has composed music for television and feature films.
Émigré is the debut solo studio album by Australian singer-songwriter Wendy Matthews released by rooArt in Australia in November 1990. It was produced by Ricky Fataar and reached No. 11 on the Australian Albums Chart. It yielded three singles: "Token Angels", "Woman's Gotta Have It" and "Let's Kiss ". Matthews won the 'Best Female Artist' award at the ARIA Music Awards of 1991, and "Token Angels" won 'Breakthrough Artist – Single'.
The 25th Annual Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards were a series of award ceremonies which included the 2011 ARIA Artisan Awards, ARIA Hall of Fame Awards, ARIA Fine Arts Awards and ARIA Awards. The latter ceremony took place on 27 November at the Allphones Arena, Sydney, and was telecast Nine Network's channel Go! at 7:30pm. The final nominees for ARIA Award categories were announced on 11 October as well as nominees and winners for Fine Arts Awards and Artisan Awards.
"I Don't Want to Be with Nobody but You" is a song by Australian band Absent Friends, released in April 1990 as the third single from their debut album Here's Looking Up Your Address. It debuted on the Australian Singles Charts at No. 45 in May 1990, peaking at No. 4 in July 1990. The song is a cover version of the Dorothy Moore track from her 1976 album Misty Blue, written by Eddie Floyd. Floyd recorded his own version in 2008 for the album Eddie Loves You So.
"Burnt Sienna" is a song from New Zealand singer Margaret Urlich. The song was released in May 1993 as the fourth and final single from her second studio album, Chameleon Dreams. The song peaked at number 33 on the Australian singles chart.
"Release Me" is a song by Australian singer songwriter Deborah Conway. It was released as the third single from her debut studio album String of Pearls (1991). It peaked at number 58 in Australia in February 1992. In the following month Conway performed it with Vika and Linda at the ARIA Music Awards of 1992. Dan Condon of Double J, in 2019, rated it as one of seven great performances at the ARIA Awards over 33 years.
"One Word" is a song by Australian rock band Baby Animals. It was released in January 1992 as their fourth single from their debut studio album Baby Animals (1991). The song peaked at number 15 on the ARIA Singles Chart, becoming the band's first top 20 single.
