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On the heels of her successful performances at SXSW, Coachella and second US tour opening for Ben Folds in April and May, for which she received standing ovations and rave reviews for her operatic pop vocal flair, platinum-selling Australian singer/songwriter Kate Miller-Heidke embarks on her first headlining club tour in the US in mid-June. She will also be performing at the legendary Lilith Fair in select cities in late June/early July.
Selected by NBC.com as one of the "10 Bands Not To Miss At SXSW" and receiving high praise from The New York Times’ Jon Pareles for her festival-opening performance at Coachella (“Kate Miller-Heidke, an Australian songwriter who can be tenderly folky or sly and wry, has a warm voice with a secret extension: a high, operatic flutter, that had the crowd whooping every time she unleashed it. She used it sparingly, and every time was a zinger.”), Kate returns to the States to support her US debut album Curiouser, which was released on March 16th on SonyMusic Independent Network(SIN)/Sony Australia.
London-based Miller-Heidke is well known in her native Australia for her innovative, occasionally-operatic, sci-fi pop music. In addition to earning rave reviews from the media for Curiouser, which is nearing double platinum in Australia, she continues to build an ever-growing hoard of devotees worldwide thanks to her viral hit (and fan favorite), “Are You F**king Kidding Me? (The Facebook Song)”, which has had the Twitterati buzzing from its initial debut.
The first single in the US from Curiouser, “Caught In The Crowd”, addresses the serious subject of teenage bullying based on a recognizably real story of lingering childhood regret. "CITC" was honored recently when it was selected by NPR as their "Song of the Day".
With this song, Kate and her collaborator/husband Keir Nuttall made history as the first Australians to win the Grand Prize in the prestigious International Songwriting Competition (based in Nashville). The song was handpicked from more than 17,000 entries to woo judges including Tom Waits, The Shins’ James Mercer, The Cure’s Robert Smith, Neil Finn and The Kinks’ Ray Davis.
Listen: Kate Miller-Heidke on NPR's Mountain Stage
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Selected by NBC.com as one of the "10 Bands Not To Miss At SXSW" and receiving high praise from The New York Times’ Jon Pareles for her festival-opening performance at Coachella (“Kate Miller-Heidke, an Australian songwriter who can be tenderly folky or sly and wry, has a warm voice with a secret extension: a high, operatic flutter, that had the crowd whooping every time she unleashed it. She used it sparingly, and every time was a zinger.”), Kate returns to the States to support her US debut album Curiouser, which was released on March 16th on SonyMusic Independent Network(SIN)/Sony Australia.
London-based Miller-Heidke is well known in her native Australia for her innovative, occasionally-operatic, sci-fi pop music. In addition to earning rave reviews from the media for Curiouser, which is nearing double platinum in Australia, she continues to build an ever-growing hoard of devotees worldwide thanks to her viral hit (and fan favorite), “Are You F**king Kidding Me? (The Facebook Song)”, which has had the Twitterati buzzing from its initial debut.
The first single in the US from Curiouser, “Caught In The Crowd”, addresses the serious subject of teenage bullying based on a recognizably real story of lingering childhood regret. "CITC" was honored recently when it was selected by NPR as their "Song of the Day".
With this song, Kate and her collaborator/husband Keir Nuttall made history as the first Australians to win the Grand Prize in the prestigious International Songwriting Competition (based in Nashville). The song was handpicked from more than 17,000 entries to woo judges including Tom Waits, The Shins’ James Mercer, The Cure’s Robert Smith, Neil Finn and The Kinks’ Ray Davis.
Listen: Kate Miller-Heidke on NPR's Mountain Stage