Sunday, July 22, 2012

MISSY HIGGINS: SINGER/SONGWRITER


Missy Higgins released her 3rd album out June 2012, in Australia ‘The Ole’ Razzle Dazzel’, with a July 17, 2012 release on iTunes in the USA.  This is her third effort to release in the USA.  The first ‘The Sound of White’ in 2004, was a #1 album in Australia, and the 2nd out in 2007 ‘ On A Clear Night’, which produced various singles which were in the top ten, in Australia,  plus she won Best Female Artist award in 2007.
WIKIPEDIA: Higgins has won seven ARIA Music Awards from nineteen nominations.[ She has won two APRA Awards for songwriting and an MTV Australia Video Music Award
§  2004 ARIA Awards, Best Pop Release for "Scar"
§  2005 MTV Australia Video Music Awards, Breakthrough Artist of the Year
§  2005 APRA Awards, Breakthrough Award for "Scar"
§  2005 APRA Awards, Song of the Year for "Scar"
§  2005 ARIA Awards, Breakthrough Artist – Album for The Sound of White
§  2005 ARIA Awards, Best Pop Release for The Sound of White
§  2005 ARIA Awards, Highest Selling Album for The Sound of White
§  2005 ARIA Awards, Best Female Artist for The Sound of White
§  2005 ARIA Awards, Album of the Year for The Sound of White
§  2007 ARIA Awards, Best Female Artist for On a Clear Night

After all that why didn’t she make it here?  She has since changed record labels, and her music is more mature. The pop singer/songwriter has come back with a fresh new look and sound to her music.
 In 2008, she quit the business, because it didn’t make her happy, she felt she was on a production line. Although music is what she knows studying classical piano since the age of six, she also plays guitar, and began singing at the age of 12 at public events, she gave it all up to find herself.
 All the accolades didn’t bring Higgins what she hoped it would, but she has since found a renewed desire to perform and write again. Her music is passionate; the catchy melodies are revealing and honest, and far superior to her first two albums.
Higgins music, mostly ballads, has been compared to Sarah McLachlan & Vanessa Carlton, with a bit of Atlantis Morissette. 
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