Kate Alexa
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| Kate Alexa | |
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| Birth name | Kate Alexa Gudinski |
| Born | March 2, 1988 |
| Origin | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Genre(s) | Pop, pop rock |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, songwriter |
| Years active | 2004–present |
| Label(s) | Liberation |
| Website | www.katealexa.com |
Kate Alexa Gudinski[1] (born March 2, 1988 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), is an Australian pop singer and the daughter of Australian music promoter Michael Gudinski AM. Alexa first hit the spotlight in 2004 when her song "Always There" was featured in the Channel 7 series Home & Away. The second single was a mediocre success, but after supporting the Backstreet Boys on their Australia tour, her third single "All I Hear" shot straight into the ARIA top ten, and stayed inside the top twenty for eight weeks.
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[edit] Life and music career
[edit] 2001–2006: Early career and debut album
Alexa's career began when she was thirteen and wrote her first song, then the following year she started doing demo's.[2] "Colours of the Rainbow" was the first song she recorded stating "It's a really fun song, but I don't think I'm ever going to play it for anyone".[2] In 2004, when Alexa was in Year eleven of high school, her debut single, "Always There" was selected to be the soundtrack to Channel Seven’s Home and Away promos during the 2004 Olympic Games. This provided valuable promotion for Alexa, with many viewers wanting to know more about the song. This was very rewarding for her as the song was very meaningful to her.[2]
In 2005, Alexa was finishing Year twelve at high school (studying Photography, English, Legal Studies and IT) when she released her second single, "My Day Will Come", a song about seizing the moment, it was another top thirty hit.[2] Also in 2005 she graduated from high school knowing the importance of finishing school and deciding music is what she wants to do forever.[2] On her eighteenth birthday in 2006 she released her third single, "All I Hear". As she celebrated, she found out she had glandular fever and because of this, she was unable to do much promotion for the song.[2] The song peaked at number nine on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart and Alexa states "Having a top Ten hit was just an unbelievable feeling. It ment so much to me that people where promoting the song".[2] On September 23, 2006, Alexa released her debut album Broken & Beautiful and describes the album as a reflection of her life and journey over the past few years and claims that everything on the album is true.[2]
[edit] 2007–present: Recent career
In 2007, Alexa wrote and recorded songs for the soundtrack for the television series H2O: Just Add Water series two, which was released in Australia on September 8, 2007. For her second studio album, Alexa travelled to the US to record new material. Alexa teamed up with Australian producer Molly Meldrum and U.S. singer Baby Bash to do a cover version of the Womack & Womack song "Teardrops", which will be the first single released from the album in 2008.[3]
Her first album Broken & Beautiful was released in Japan on April 16, 2008, with two bonus tracks, "Walk On" and an acoustic version of "Always There".[4]
In February and March 2008, Kate supported Cyndi Lauper on her national tour of Australia.
[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
| Year | Album | Chart positions | ||
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| 2006 | Broken & Beautiful
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[edit] Singles
| Year | Title | Chart positions | Album |
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| 2004 | "Always There" | 16 | Broken & Beautiful |
| 2005 | "My Day Will Come" | 24 | |
| 2006 | "All I Hear" | 9 | |
| "Somebody Out There" | 21 | ||
| "Better Than You"1 | — | ||
| 2008 | "Teardrops" (featuring Baby Bash)2 | 26 | Untitled second album |
1 Only released in Australia as a radio single.
2 Currently charting
[edit] Miscellaneaous
- "All I Want for Christmas Is You" (2005) — a cover version of a Mariah Carey song and appears on The Spirit of Christmas 2005.
[edit] References
- ^ Cameron Adams "Kate Alexa speaks to us". Herald Sun. Retrieved September 16, 2007.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Official website "About Kate". Katealexa.com. Retrieved September 16, 2007.
- ^ "KATE ALEXA LATEST NEWS". Liberation Music. Retrieved February 7, 2008.
- ^ "Information on the Japanese edition of Broken & Beautiful". Towerrecords.co.jp. Retrieved April 26, 2008.
- ^ "Kate Alexa - Single Chart Peaks". Australian-charts.com. Retrieved September 16, 2007.
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