KATE CEBERANO Announces Stunning New Album ‘My Life Is a Symphony’
MY LIFE IS A SYMPHONY
A CELEBRATION OF HER BRILLIANT CAREER, SPANNING FOUR DECADES
RECORDED WITH MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
RELEASED MAY 12 – PRE-ORDER HERE
Universally revered Australian artist Kate Ceberano (AM) has announced the release of her new album ‘My Life Is A Symphony’, scheduled for Friday, May 12 through ABC Music.
The lavishly decorated Melbourne artist’s ruby anniversary finds her at the dawn of a new era and this release is a breathtaking celebration of her songwriting and recording career.
In what will be her 30th album, this release and accompanying tour brings Kate Ceberano back to her essence as a musical force, an electrifying live performer and one of the greatest voices of her generation.
The longplayer features reimagined versions of her most iconic songs, Brave and Pash and personal favourites spanning her four decades in the business. All tracks have been recorded with epic cinematic arrangements by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and were written or co-written by Ceberano.
The release was mixed by by Grammy nominated Justin Stanley (Prince, Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney) and Lachlan Carrick (Gotye, Elvis soundtrack), produced by Stanley and Roscoe James Irwin (The Cat Empire / The Bamboos), Irwin also wrote the arrangements and orchestrations.
“This album was conceived and the orchestra recorded in the last months before the Covid “blackout”! After several years of waiting to complete it, when I finally got to return to the project and record the vocals it was a very emotional experience for me…back in a studio where i had recorded Brave 35 years before – and with my daughter now singing BV’s. I never wanted to take any thing for granted again. I was more committed, bolder, and more willing to back my stories and songwriting. The power of the orchestra, the arrangements by my talented friend Roscoe have given new life to songs that together we cherrypicked from my albums over the years. Songs that are meaningful to me, earmarking personal memories and travelling with me across 4 decades.”
A national tour with state orchestras commences with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra at Hamer Hall on Saturday May 27, followed by the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra at Festival Theatre on Saturday June 10 as part of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival opening weekend, celebrating 50th anniversary of the Adelaide Festival Centre.
These peformances are certain to be a stunning live reflection of Ceberano’s rise to the pinnacles of rock, pop, soul and jazz.
With 11 platinum albums, 10 Top 10 singles, 4 ARIA Awards from 19 nominations and over 8,000 live performances, Kate Ceberano is one of the most celebrated Australian artists of all time.
To quote Hugh Jackman, “Truly one of the great voices this country has produced. Kate sings with such passion, heart and joy it is impossible not to be completely carried to wherever she wants you to go!!!! Not only an amazing singer but an extraordinary performer – Kate’s singing simply melts your heart.”
SIA concurs,“Kate has always been one of my favorites. I was obsessed with her as a kid and attended as many of her concerts as I was allowed; I love her. Incredibly talented, great voice and an important influence on me. Congratulations Kate!”
Fellow respected Australian artist, James Reyne said today, “Kate is truly a modern Renaissance woman. Singer, songwriter, painter, actor, chanteuse, consummate television queen-pin, and in the greatest sense of the word, and to paraphrase the mighty Cole, a delightful, delicious, delectable, de-lovely Diva. She is also vivacious and funny and grounded and kind. And quite unafraid of speaking her mind.”
Jimmy Barnes added, “Kate is a performer with boundless energy and enthusiasm. The love she has for her art is contagious. Watching Kate sing live is always a joy. The first time I saw her on stage she moved me and she still does to this day.”
Forthcoming LIVE shows:
– Remaining capital city dates with state orchestras will be announced shortly –
SAT MARCH 11 Brighter Days Festival, Bright, VIC
SAT MARCH 18 Lighthouse Theatre’s 40th Anniversary, Warrnambool, VIC
SAT MAY 27 Hamer Hall / Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, VIC
SAT JUNE 10 Adelaide Festival Centre’s Festival Theatre / Adelaide Symphony Orchestra / Adelaide Cabaret Festival, SA
WED JULY 5 Big Red Bash, Birdsville, QLD
FRI AUGUST 18 Mundi Mundi Bash, Broken Hill, NSW
FRI AUGUST 25 Stranded in the Whitsunday’s – KC, Jimmy Barnes, Ian Moss, Black Sorrows, Mahalia Barnes – QLD
ABOUT KATE CEBERANO
From her debut as a teen into the rough and tumble of Melbourne’s live scene, Kate Ceberano has been a force of nature from day one.
Her jazz ensemble the Hoagy Cats opened for Vince Jones at the Arts Centre and pop outfit Expozay tore up the sticky carpet of the Chevron with Divinyls. So began a wide embrace of multiple musical genres that continues to this day.
Kate’s scene-stealing backing vocals performance, circa 1985 on the Models #1 smash Out Of Mind, Out of Sight, was followed by her ARIA’s Breakthrough Act of ‘86, I’m Talking. Their platinum debut Bear Witness, brought national attention via their three top 10 singles Trust Me, Do You Want To Be? and Holy Word. Stages as historic as Live Aid and Australian Made alongside INXS, Jimmy Barnes, Divinyls and the Saints soon followed.
Her showstopping cover of Rose Royce’s Love Don’t Live Here Anymore was early warning of another string to her bow: an interpreter of exceptional taste and skill, and her first Countdown Award for Most Popular Female Performer foreshadowed her inevitable shift to the centre spotlight.
The cool jazz crossover of the early 90’s, Kate Ceberano and Her Septet sold platinum in 1987 followed by another hit You’ve Always Got the Blues, made with Wendy Matthews for the ABC TV series Stringer. This marked Kate’s third platinum award and her first ARIA (from 9 nominations) for Best Female Artist.
The landmark debut pop solo album Brave, sold triple platinum and was a skilled consolidation of her journey through dance, pop and soul. The record became one of THE smash albums of 1989. Bedroom Eyes was the highest selling Australian single of the year, one of five from the album including Kate’s first charting songs as a songwriter, That’s What I Call Love, and title track hit Brave.
A second jazz album Like Now followed and in 1990, four MO Awards and two ARIAs — her second for Best Female Artist — sealed her status as a true cross-genre sensation. From Sanctuary Cove with Frank Sinatra, Whitney Houston and Peter Allen to the World Music Awards in Monaco with Prince, Sting and Grace Jones, the world would become her stage.
Kate’s starring role as Mary Magdalene opposite John Farnham in Jesus Christ Superstar circa 1992elevated her to our highest echelon of musical performers. Playing across 80 arenas, the ARIA-winning cast album was the biggest-seller in that year, sitting at #1 for 10 weeks.
The late-night TV cabaret show Kate Ceberano & Friends was a success in the years that followed and Kate’s huge personality, her unstoppable energy, contagious enthusiasm and exquisite voice had carved a unique place among our most admired and beloved entertainers.
In 1996 Kate’s following album Blue Box was made in New York, Los Angeles, London and Sydney and her 1998 release Pash was yet another milestone. This was the first album to bear Kate’s songwriting credit on every track and was yet another hit album.
The 2004 arrival of her daughter, Gypsy, is naturally her proudest achievement. Bigger than winning Dancing with the Stars, judging X-Factor, publishing (with Tom Gilling) her autobiography I’m Talking, or even that Order of Australia “for significant service to the performing arts, particularly music, and to charitable organisations” in 2016.
That year also saw the release of her album 19 Days In New York, made with legendary soul producer Billy Davis. Nine Lime Avenue, another platinum seller,harked back to her childhood passion for ‘80s pop. Kensal Road was made in London with shades of acoustic folk and even country.
In more recent times, Kate has made an album for mothers (Lullaby, with Nigel MacLean) and one for a Merry Christmas (with Ronan Keating). Her endless thirst for collaboration has encompassed indie (Dallas et Kate, with Dallas Cosmas), atmospheric pop (The Dangerous Age, with Steve Kilbey and Sean Sennett), and two revered jazz albums (Bittersweet with Mark Isham and the ARIA-winning Tryst with Paul Grabowsky).
Kate’s Anthology released in 2016 featured 30 years of hits, rarities and duets with Farnham, Keating, Matthews, Kelly and more spanned three CDs and 53 tracks.
She also made history as the first woman in the Australian Songwriters Association Hall of Fame. Kate also received a Ruby Award as artistic director of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival and her burgeoning career as a highly sought-after and collectible painter was forged under the pressures of COVID lockdown.
The last year has seen Kate’s stock as a live performer reach at an all-time high with her prime-time main stage and headlining spots on esteemed festivals as Bluesfest in Byron Bay, the National Folk Festival in Canberra, the Big Red Bash and Mundi Mundi Bash drawing a level of audience affection and participation reserved for our most iconic artists.
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