Max Sharam

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Max Sharam is an Australian singer and songwriter.

Max Sharam made a name for herself as a recording artist with Warner Music. Her unique blend of Pop and Classical Opera (P’Opera) – quickly became her trademark and her award winning, platinum selling debut album - ‘A Million Year Girl’, was nominated for 8 Aria Awards in Australia. After several sell-out tours around the country and a tour of Europe as a solo artist with a string quartet, Max disappeared - later resurfacing in Channel 9’s TV documentary ‘Dream Factory’ shot entirely in Los Angeles.

Max was the subject matter of an Italian TV Documentary – ‘Girl with the Guitar’ & toured Europe with two different theatre companies when she was only 19, released her first record soon after then spent a year fronting a Japanese rock band in Hiroshima.

It was her captivating and humorous acoustic spots at club Kinselas and performance on New Faces that started the attraction with wide audiences and critical acclaim across Australia. Max signed to Warner in 1994 and her single ‘Coma’ – a warped celebration of revenge, humor, and post-modern genre blending, hit the top ten nationally and was voted the eighth most popular song of the year by Australia’s JJJ Network.

Max Sharam was invited to perform ‘Butterfly Suicide’ at the Hong Kong Fringe Festival in January 2005 - her one woman ‘P’Opera’ - a Virtual Variety/Multi Media Musical - included the misadventures of ‘ill Soprano’, one of her drawn characters - a highly strung Opera Diva who takes to the streets at night singing. Max wrote and staged her first one woman show for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival with rave reviews from as far and wide as The London Sunday Observer - “Sharam has X factor in such abundance that you could forgive her almost anything”.

"Imagine a voice that can shift from Liz Phair to Diamonda Galas in a heartbeat with lyrical savvy and a perfectly obscure sense of humour & you’re halfway there" (Beat Magazine)

"Max’s songs range from predestined hits to the more unusual with visceral falsettos and surreal and intrepid gypsy rondos. Max Sharam can sing an Aria in Italian that would have Cecilia Bartoli’s eyebrows lifting. Powerful and provocative she elicits strong reactions from press & pedestrians alike." (The Herald)

"Max Sharam is a force to be reckoned with..she’s confident and strong, cutting and satirical; competent and sensational. And that’s just in interviews.." (WA Observer)