Ilan Kidron is the lead singer and song writer of successful Australian electro dance pop band The Potbelleez. The band have certified Platinum sales for "Don't Hold Back" and "From the Music" and certified Gold sales for "Are You With Me" and "Hello". Rolling Stone’s Tim Duggan proclaimed The Potbelleez to be “the fastest rising stars of the dance scene” in 2006.
Kidron also performs in Sydney cinematic fuzz folk duo "Freaks in Love" with his film maker wife Samantha Rebillet.
The films Kidron has composed original music for have a stack of accolades include an OSCAR Nominee for Best Short Film for INJA,[1] which also won Best Short Film at Nashville Independent Film Festival, Best Foreign Short at LA Shorts Fest, Best Short Film at St Kilda Film Festival and Best Short Fiction at the AFI Awards.
The short ALL SHOOK UP, directed by his wife Samantha Rebillet was a Finalist at TropFest, and THE BIRTHDAY, also by Rebillet, won Best Film at Bondi Short Film Festival, Kaleidoscope Awards and the WOW Awards and was also a Finalist in Trop Fest. He has just finished composing an original score for Rebillet's "Geography of the Hapless Heart" due to be released early 2012.
Kidron was also the winner of the Best Music Educational Corporate Film ROLL YOUR OWN at the AGSC Awards 2002 and was a Nominee for Best Music Animation FISH FACTORY at AGSC Awards 2002, Best Song In a Film SQUARE SPACE at AGSC Awards 2001 and Best Song in a Film MELANCHOLY at AGSC Awards in 2001.
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Some of Ilan’s biggest performances include Network Ten’s Sydney Harbour New Year's Eve celebrations, which was watched by over 2.2 million viewers nationally, Global Gathering, Godskitchen (UK), Future Music Festival, We Love Sounds, Electric Picnic (Ireland) plus MTV Snow Jam and Summadayze in New Zealand. And most recently Good Vibrations, Clipsal 500 (Adelaide), Grand Prix (Melbourne), Sir Richard Branson’s exclusive V Australia Launch Parties in Sydney and Los Angeles, plus support for Basement Jaxx on the Australian leg of their tour.
They also appeared at the 2008 Australian MTV Awards and played in front of 35, 000 people at the opening of the A League Soccer Grand Final at Sydney Football Stadium and the Australian Idol Final 2008.
The band’s dance-floor anthem “Don’t Hold Back” spent 17 weeks at No.1 in the ARIA dance charts and 29 weeks in the ARIA Top 40 singles chart.[2] The song went on to become platinum[3] in mid-2007, selling over 100,000 units and their follow up single “Are You With Me” went gold.
After this success the band gained three ARIA nominations in October 2008 in the categories for ‘Highest Selling Single’, ‘Breakthrough Artist – Single’ and ‘Best Dance Release’ and an APRA nomination in 2009 in “Dance Work Of The Year” for “Don’t Hold Back”[4] of which they were the winners.[5]