Sarah Blasko

In modern pop, Sarah Blasko is a rare beast. On the one hand, she is a fiercely-independent free spirit whose haunting music critics have run out of superlatives to describe. On the other, the 33 year old Australian is an acclaimed artist whose mantelpiece houses an ever increasing array of awards and who performed at the closing ceremony of Sydneys Commonwealth Games.

Sydney-born Blasko first found her voice singing with her mother in Pentecostal church and had a brief spell fronting bands whilst studying for a degree in English literature. Her real career began when she struck out solo in 2002. An early EP release was followed by 2004s platinum-selling, debut album, The Overture & the Underscore and 2007s nautically-themed, ARIA Award-winning successor, What The Sea Wants, The Sea Will Have.

Recently voted Album Of The Year by Triple J, Australias biggest national radio network, and nominated for a mighty five ARIAs (Blasko picked up Best Female), As Day Follows Night is already Blaskos biggest seller. Written over several months in 2007 while she was simultaneously composing the score for the Bell Shakespeare Companys production of Hamlet in which she also performed it is her most lyrically direct, musically simple and emotionally affecting album to date.

''Delicate yet emotionally full-blooded''The Telegraph

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