Kate Ceberano

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Kate Ceberano

Kate Ceberano (born November 17, 1966) is an award winning Australian pop vocalist and entertainer. She is one of Australia's best known singers locally, with success in the soul, jazz and pop genres as well as brief forays into musicals with Jesus Christ Superstar and film. She has also achieved success as a songwriter, with the hit "Pash" going gold in 1998.

1 Biography
2 Achievements
3 External links

[edit] Biography

Ceberano was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia of a Filipino father and an English mother. She is a third-generation Scientologist, her grandmother having once been employed as a governess for L. Ron Hubbard's children. She retains close family ties, working closely with her mother Cherie Ceberano, her brother (guitarist Phil) and her husband (film-maker Lee Rogers).

Noted for her soulful and powerful vocal style, singer-songwriter Kate Ceberano has won almost every entertainment award in Australia. She has released five Platinum albums, four Gold albums, selling in excess of 1 million albums in Australia alone, performed tours, acted in feature films and hosted her own television show.

Ceberano first came to prominence as lead vocalist at 17 years of age, for the funk band I'm Talking, which was managed by Ken West. The group’s album produced three top ten singles, went Platinum and won Best New Talent (1984) at the Countdown Awards. Ceberano won Best Female Vocalist (1985) at the Countdown Awards as well as Best Female Singer (1985) at the Australian Record Industry Association (ARIA) Awards. However after just one album, the group broke up and she went solo, with manager West soon replaced by Ceberano's mother Cherie.

Ceberano’s first solo album was the live set Kate Ceberano and Her Septet (1987). Her following album You've Always Got The Blues (1988) earned her an ARIA Award for Best Female Artist (1988). One year later, she won another ARIA for Best Female Artist (1989) as well as one for Highest Selling Single (1989), which was "Bedroom Eyes". At the end of 1990, she received three prestigious MO Awards for Jazz Performer, Female Rock Performer and Contemporary Concert Performer of the Year.

In 1992, Ceberano performed the role of Mary Magdalene in Jesus Christ Superstar (1992), which toured Australia and also featured John Farnham. She followed this with her own late-night cabaret-style show on ABC TV called Kate Ceberano And Friends (1993-1994).

In 1994 a portrait of Kate Ceberano by painter Peter Robertson won the Packing Room award at the Archibald Prize.

In 1996 Ceberano released her next solo album Blue Box, which went Gold and saw her nominated for another Best Female Artist ARIA. In 1997 she wrote and released Pash. It went Gold and establishing Ceberano as one of Australian's leading song-writers.

Ceberano has also appeared the feature films, Molokai: The Story of Father Damien (2002), Dust Off The Wings (1996), Garbo (1990) and telemovie Arguing the Toss of a Cat (1989). She also performs as a special guest with acclaimed Los Angeles improv group the Really Spontaneous Theatre Company.

In 2005, Ceberano appeared as a judge on the Australian version of the television reality show X Factor for which she was voted Australia's Worst Female TV Personality by the annual satirical TV Fugly Awards [1].

She recently performed at the Kimberley Moon Experience at Kununurra, marking her first time in the Kimberley.

On February 5, 1996, Ceberano married filmmaker Lee Rogers. They have a daughter, Gypsy, who was born on January 6, 2004.

Kate has also appeared on Network Ten Australia's "David Tench Tonight" program.

[edit] Achievements

[edit] Albums

Kate Ceberano

2006 Live - WASO
2004 19 Days In New York
2003 The Girl Can Help It
1999 True Romantic; The Best Of Kate Ceberano - Double Platinum
1997 Pash - Gold
1996 Blue Box - Gold
1994 Kate Ceberano & Friends - live album from her TV show - Gold
1992 Jesus Christ Superstar Cast Album - Role: Mary Magdalene (4 x Platinum, 10 weeks at No. 1)
1991 Think About It
1990 Like Now
1988 Brave - Triple Platinum
1988 You've Always Got The Blues - Platinum
1987 Kate Ceberano & Her Septet - Gold
1986 Bear Witness (as lead singer in the band I'm Talking) - Platinum

[edit] Awards / highlights

2002 Performed the Australian National Anthem at AFL Grand Final
1999 "Outstanding Achievement in the Arts in Asia" Business Asia Award.
1989 Monte Carlo World Music Awards / ARIA Award - Highest Selling Australian Single
1988/89 ARIA Awards - Best Female Artist 1988 and 1989 (Kate has been nominated 7 times; a record equalled only by Kylie Minogue)
1985/1986 Countdown Awards- Best Female Artist 1985 and 1986
1992,1993,1994 Peoples Choice Awards - Favourite Female Singer (Record)
1992 Coca Cola Australia Music Award - Most Popular Female Performer
1990/91 MO Awards - Jazz Performer of the Year, Female Rock Performer and Contemporary Concert Performer of the Year

[edit] Film

1999 Opening theatrical sequence for Sydney's Fox Studios, Director: Baz Luhrmann
1999 "Molokai: The Story of Father Damien" (feature film), Director: Paul Cox
1997 "Dust Off The Wings" (feature film), Director: Lee Rogers
1989 "Arguing The Toss of a Cat" (telemovie), Director: Christine Sammers