Have you heard this chart-topping Australian singer songwriter named Kate Miller-Heidke?

Here is The Devil Wears a Suit with lyrics. I love this video. It’s like watching a silent old school horror flick! Awesome! The zombies are a nice touch.

Kate Miller-Heidke released Nightflight, her first solo album in two years, last month. Kate will be touring with Ben Folds Five in the fall.

Here is her titled track Nightflight but it includes how it was made. I love videos that show some behind the scenes footage.

You can click here to be taken to her YouTube Channel and subscribe.

Here is the Nightflight music video with lyrics:

Here is Sarah with lyrics. I love it when videos have the lyrics included. That way I have a deeper understanding of the song, most the time without the lyrics I’m not sure I fully listen.

She has so many more amazing YouTube videos uploaded to her channel! You really need to check them all out. They are angelic and melodic, 41 in all!

Here you can listen to Ride This Feeling

Kate Miller-Heidke | Livestream Session + Q&A

I had never heard of Livestream before, but it’s really interesting. It’s like a live acoustic performance with some honest chat that makes you feel like they are in your living room. It’s a very comfortable setting that allows you to get to know the artist a little better.

Tour Dates with Ben Folds Five:

9/16/12 at Koka Booth Amphitheatre in Cary, NC

9/19/12 at North Charleston PAC in Charleston, SC

9/18/12 at Tabernacle in Atlanta, GA

9/23/12 at Palladium Ballroom in Dallas, TX

9/24/12 at Stubbs Waller Creek Amphitheatre in Austin, TX

9/25/12 at Bayou Music Center in Houston, TX

9/28/12 at Starlight in Kansas City, MO

More on Kate Miller-Heidke:

On the heels of her successful 2010/2011 US and European tours opening for Ben Folds, and critically acclaimed performances at SXSW, Coachella and Lilith Fair to support the release of her US debut CD, Curiouser, chart-topping Australian singer songwriter Kate Miller-Heidke released Nightflight, her first solo album in two years, in the US on June 19^th.

Written between the frenetic jolt of London and the sleepy backwaters of Toowoomba (which was hit by deadly floods in 2011), Nightflight showcases songs about real people’s lives: family members who have died, teenagers who went missing in the ’90s, friends looking for love in the wrong places and Kate’s own longing for home. In previous albums, Kate has immersed herself in high cabaret drama, polished electro-pop and heart-arresting ballads. With Nightflight, her mission was simple: to focus on the craft of pure human storytelling with clear-eyed clarity.

The record was produced by her collaborator/husband Keir Nuttall with Lindsay Gravina (Rowland S. Howard, Mick Harvey, The Living End, Magic Dirt) in his Birdland studio in Prahran, Melbourne and mixed by Cenzo Townshend (Florence And The Machine, Kaiser Chiefs). Recorded over two months in Melbourne, Nighflight is made up of eleven songs in which we see Kate meditate on homesickness, mortality, love and surrender, in an album that is both sonically lush and emotionally stark, deeply personal and yet utterly panoramic.

 Last Fall, Kate Miller-Heidke grabbed the attention of TV viewers and radio listeners in the New York area when her irresistibly catchy track, “Are You Ready?” (from the record Liberty Bell, created by her electronic side project), was used regularly for the NY Lottery campaigns.

In addition to her YouTube Channel she is on Facebook, Twitter and Last.fm. Check her out!

So what do you think? Is it someone you would go see in concert?

Julia Havey July 5, 2012 12:44 PM

and this is only PART of the story……..the last video…she was playing guitar. She taught herself to do so while her jaw was wired shut. Well, 9 months after the car accident, finally feeling “normal” she went to the lake with a family for a kid’s birthday party. The father was taking everyone for tubing rides in his new boat/new toy. When my daughter was on it with my son and a man, the dad took them on a thrill ride ride. She was flipped off and her arm broke in half, bone shattered in 5 places. Today she has 13 inch plate with 15 screws. A man accidentally punched it cheering at Cardinal’s baseball game two weeks ago and she said she could feel a screw come out her skin and had a softball sized bruise. At a friend’s wedding someone asked “can’t you cover that thing up, it’s kind of hideous.” This being the scar that runs from her shoulder to her elbow and the part of the plate that you can literally see sticking out.

She has partial paralysis in her hand that is likely permanent. While unable to play guitar, she taught herself to play piano ONE handed.

Now she can play piano, play guitar and my song bird is singing again.

She’s an amazing girl, more lovely inside than out… She inspiring so many people with her resilience, determination and perseverance.

Thank you for your kind words, they mean a lot to us.

A very grateful Momma Jules

Can you believe this??? Like this poor girl hasn’t been through enough! Help me lift her up!

Subscribe to her YouTube Channel and send her a tweet (tell her she’s amazing!). Listen to her songs and share them with your friends and family. Tell her story. We all need to come face to face with stories about overcoming the odds. I don’t know about you but it makes my small-time problems seem much easier to handle.

I don’t find her any less amazing after all that she’s endured. Just listen and you’ll see what I mean:

So there you have it Renee Blair. She’s determined as ever, and why shouldn’t she be?

I have to show you this video. It definitely pulls on your heart strings:

Are you impressed yet? I sure as hell am. Here is her just 3 months ago, well on her way to a full recovery:

“Hi, I’m Renee, I was told by many people in Nashville that country music is best defined as “3 chords and the truth”. I have been in a several accidents which left scars that indicate an experience I have gone through in life…I like to define it as 3 scars and the truth. believe that every scar has a story and I have three significant scars each with it’s own miraculous story that I would like to share with you. No one ever wakes up and thinks that before the day ends they’ll be lying in a hospital, but it happens and when it does you get through it somehow. I found the strength to get through each obstacle as I would pray and about my love and passion for music. Each time I found myself in the recovery room, I prayed harder than I’d ever prayed that “If I get through this I will dedicate my life to helping the lives of others through my music.” I have desired to sing and play music longer than anything else I can remember. My happiest and most cherished memories have been while I’m singing and look up and happen to catch smiles on peoples faces, and when there’s a tear in their eye–that’s magical!”

She has a beautiful voice that just demands stardom. Help get her there! Share the word, share her videos on Facebook and Twitter. Raise her up and help her shine!

I have a new band to share with you!!! HURTS!!!

Official Website: http://www.informationhurts.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hurts
Twitter: http://twitter.com/theohurts
YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/HurtsVEVO#p/u

Have you heard of this guy? I’ll be reviewing the CD in the next week or so, but I was so intrigued after reading his back story and how he came to be. You will be too!

 There’s a moment in every artist’s life when he knows that music is not only his path, but his destiny.  Even though Justin Hines grew up singing in church at his grandmother’s behest, his realization came at the most unlikely of places— at a Toronto Raptors’ basketball game in his hometown 15 years ago. A then-14-year old Hines won a vocal competition to sing the National Anthem— both the Canadian and American— at the game and his world opened up before him. “In that moment, it all seemed possible,” he recalls. “The performance eliminated any stage fright.” 

Hines has thrived all his life against odds that would daunt someone with a less indomitable spirit.  Hines has Larsen Syndrome, a joint dislocation condition that confines him to a wheelchair.   “The reality is I don’t really look at my situation as that big a deal,” he says. “We all have our things that challenge us, just some people’s are a little more visible in the forefront. Mine is very apparent, whereas others wear it on the inside.”

That natural optimism permeates much of his American debut, “Days to Recall,” (available now) the singer/songwriter’s collection of heartfelt songs about life and love. “I don’t want to pretend that dark times don’t exist, but I have a hard time leaving things negative,” he says. “I think every challenging situation leads to something better. When I’m writing I don’t do it consciously in the songs, it’s just how they evolve.”