Troy Cassar-Daley

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Appearing on This Is Your Life. His mother, Irene Daley, father Tony Cassar and cousin Carl.
Appearing on This Is Your Life. His mother, Irene Daley, father Tony Cassar and cousin Carl.
Troy with family members.
Troy with family members.
Fathers side of the family. Margret, Marie, Troy and Tony, Troys father. (Maltese)
Fathers side of the family. Margret, Marie, Troy and Tony, Troys father. (Maltese)

Troy Cassar-Daley is a multi award winning Maltese, Australian & Aboriginal country musician from Grafton, New South Wales. Although he is considered to be a country person, he originates from Surry Hills, a suburb of Sydney.

He has been a regular at the Tamworth Country Music Festival (where he first performed aged 11 years), The Deadlys and visitor to Nashville, Tennessee. He performed in the Australian Country Music Showcase in Nashville, along with Lee Kernaghan, Gina Jeffreys and Tommy Emmanuel.

He released his first EP, "Dream Out Loud", and was nominated for his first Golden Guitar for Best Male Vocalist in 1994. He has won many awards, the 1995 ARIA Award for 'Best Country Record', 1996 Country Music Awards in Tamworth, Troy won the 'Best Male Vocal' Award, 2000 CMAA Awards Best Male Vocal and Song Of The Year for 'They Don't Make 'Em Like That Anymore' and almost a decades worth of Deadly Awards. He won the ARIA award for best country album in 2006.

Troy Cassar-Daley is one of the celebrities featured in the singing competition It Takes Two aired on Seven Network in 2006.

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[edit] Early life & career

At a very young age, Troy along with his mother moved from Surry Hills in Sydney to Grafton, New South Wales. At the age of eleven Troy went to the Tamworth Country Music Festival and returned the next year to busk on the streets. At 16 he and his band, Little Eagle, were touring North Coast NSW and he made the top 10 in Tamworth's "Star Maker" quest. He won the 1996 "Search For a Star" Competition and then toured with Brian Young for seven months in which he began to develop his songwriting skills. After returning home he replaced James Blundell as leader of country music band 'The Blue Heeler Band'. By late 1993 Troy had enough original songs to for a debut EP.

[edit] Later career

The first single 'Dream Out Loud' was released in 1994 by Sony Music reached No.1 on the Australian country music charts. The album was released in January 1995 and Troy won the 1995 Aria Award for Best Country Record. At the 1996 Country Music Awards, in Tamworth, Troy won "Best Male Vocalist". He also made a cameo appearance in the motion picture 'Race the Sun' in which he peformed a song in a bar scene.

In June that year Troy was part of the Australian Country Music Showcase in Nashville. The Showcase included Lee Kernaghan, Gina Jeffreys and Tommy Emmanuel. As a result Troy returned to the States to record his new album "True Believer" with Steve Dorff.

Troy has toured regularly and continued to release albums and win awards since then.

[edit] Discography

  • 'Brighter Day' (2005)
  • 'Borrowed & Blue' (2004)
  • 'Long Way Home' (2002)
  • 'Big River' (1999)
  • 'True Believer' (1997)
  • 'Beyond The Dancing' (1995)
  • 'Dream Out Loud' (1994) by Sony Music

[edit] See also

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