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Born 11 January, 1949 (76 years old).
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Australian singer
| Daryl Braithwaite | |
|---|---|
| Performing at Caboolture RSL, June 2009 | |
| Background information | |
| Born | 11 January 1949 (age 71) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Origin | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Genres | Pop |
| Occupation(s) | Singer |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, keyboards |
| Years active | 1967–present |
| Labels | Festival, Sony, independent |
| Associated acts | Sherbet, Company of Strangers |
| Website | darylbraithwaite.com.au |
Daryl Braithwaite (born 11 January 1949) is an Australian singer. He was the lead vocalist of Sherbet (1970–1984), and returned for various reunions. Braithwaite also has a solo career, placing 15 singles in the Australian top 40, including two number-one hits, "You're My World" (October 1974) and "The Horses" (January 1991). His second studio album, Edge (November 1988), peaked at No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart, No. 14 in Norway and No. 24 in Sweden.
In 2017, Braithwaite was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame.
Biography
Early years
Daryl Braithwaite and his twin brother, Glenn, were born on 11 January 1949 and raised in a working class family in Melbourne. His father, a plumber, worked on the Snowy Mountains Scheme in the mid-1950s. Braithwaite attended Punt Road Primary School in South Yarra, then Christ Church Grammar, where the twins sang in the school choir. He later said, "I will always recall the horror of my first solo in the choir singing 'Hark The Herald Angels Sing' when the choir master, Leonard Fullard, gave me a note and then suddenly I was on my own. It was terrifying."
In 1961 Braithwaite was in the same class as Olivia Newton-John. In 1963 his family moved to the Sydney beach-side suburb of Coogee where he attended Randwick Boys High School until the end of year 10. He then began a fitter and turner apprenticeship, set up by his father, which he completed in 1969, but decided that this was not the career path for him and left home to pursue a musical career instead. As a teenager he sang in various local pop music groups, first with Bright Lights, in 1967, which included Bruce Worrall on bass guitar. Braithwaite and Worrall were both in House of Bricks and then Samael Lilith.
In March 1970, at the age of 21, he joined Sherbet, a pop band that had already released a single, "Crimson Ships". That group had formed in April 1969 with the line up of Dennis Laughlin on lead vocals (ex-Sebastian Hardie Blues Band, Clapham Junction), Doug Rea on bass guitar (Downtown Roll Band), Sammy See on organ, guitar and vocals (Clapham Junction), Clive Shakespeare on lead guitar and vocals (Downtown Roll Band) and Danny Taylor on drums (Downtown Roll Band). They secured a residency at Jonathon's Disco, playing seven hours a night, four days a week for eight months. Braithwaite was hired as the group's second lead vocalist, but within a few months Laughlin left, and former bandmate, Worrall replaced Rea on bass guitar.
Sherbet's second single, "Can You Feel It Baby" (September 1971), featured Braithwaite's gritty-but-polished lead vocals, and became the group's first national Top 40 hit, on the Go-Set singles chart. According to Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, Sherbet were "one of the country's biggest bands over the next ten years" and Braithwaite rose to national fame as their lead singer. His soul-influenced vocals and the group's pop styling was heard on a series of singles and albums throughout the 1970s: they provided an additional 19 hits on the national charts in that decade.
Early solo career: 1973–1979
Braithwaite started a parallel solo career alongside his work in Sherbet. In March 1973 he played the lead role in the Australian musical theatre production of the Who's rock opera, Tommy. In October of the following year, amidst unfounded rumours that he was leaving Sherbet, he issued his debut single, a cover version of "You're My World", which went to No. 1 for three weeks.
His next single, "Cavalry" (August 1975), was co-written with his Sherbet bandmate, Tony Mitchell, which reached No. 13 on the Kent Music Report singles chart. Two more top 20 singles followed, "Old Sid" (April 1976) and "Love Has no Pride"/"Fly Away" (February 1977). His next single was a cover of the Small Faces' "Afterglow (Of Your Love)" in October 1977. An infrequent songwriter, Braithwaite's has largely recorded cover songs. At the TV Week King of Pop Awards he was named King of Pop over the three consecutive years from 1975 to 1977.
Braithwaite's solo recordings from 1974 to 1978 appeared only on 7-inch singles. A compilation album of his singles, Daryl Braithwaite... Best Of, was issued in 1978 on Razzle Records/Festival Records. His debut solo studio album, Out on the Fringe, appeared in the following year, at a time when Sherbet had briefly broken up. He recorded that album in the United States with Steve Kipner and Terry Shaddick producing.
Solo career on hold: 1980–1987
By 1980, the members of Sherbet were back together and had renamed themselves The Sherbs. At this point, Braithwaite put his solo career on hold to concentrate on work with his bandmates. However, The Sherbs had only a very few minor hits and broke up in 1984.
Discography
Main article: Daryl Braithwaite discography
Solo albums
- Out on the Fringe (1979)
- Edge (1988) AUS: No. 1
- Rise (1990) AUS: No. 3
- Taste the Salt (1993) AUS: No. 13
- Snapshot (2005)
- The Lemon Tree (2008) AUS: No. 71
- Forever the Tourist (2013) AUS: No. 47
Compilations
- Daryl Braithwaite... Best Of (1978)
- Higher Than Hope (1991) (An international release combining tracks from Rise and Edge)
- Six Moons: The Best of 1988-1994 (1994) AUS: No. 31
- Afterglow: The Essential Collection 1971–1994 (2002)
- The Essential Daryl Braithwaite (2007)
- Days Go By (2017) AUS: No. 5[19]
Featured on
- Company of Strangers (with James Reyne): Company of Strangers (1993).
- Daft Punk, Random Access Memories (2013).
Awards and nominations
ARIA Music Awards
The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music. They commenced in 1987.
| Year | Category | Nominated artist/work | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Producer of the Year | Edge | Nominated |
| 1991 | Best Male Artist | Rise | Nominated |
| 1992 | Best Male Artist | "The Horses" | Nominated |
| Single of the Year | Nominated | ||
| Highest Selling Single | Nominated | ||
| Producer Of The Year | Won | ||
| 1994 | Engineer of the Year | "Barren Ground" & "The World as It Is" | Won |
| 2017 | ARIA Hall of Fame Inductee | Himself | inductee |
King of Pop Awards
The King of Pop Awards were voted by the readers of TV Week. The King of Pop award started in 1967 and ran through to 1978.[21]
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| Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1975[22] | himself (Sherbet) | King of Pop | Won |
| 1976[22] | himself (Sherbet) | King of Pop | Won |
| 1977[22] | himself (Sherbet) | King of Pop | Won |
TV Week / Countdown Awards
Countdown was an Australian pop music TV series on national broadcaster ABC-TV from 1974–1987, it presented music awards from 1979–1987, initially in conjunction with magazine TV Week. The TV Week / Countdown Awards were a combination of popular-voted and peer-voted awards.[23]
| Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | himself | Most Popular Male Performer | Nominated |
- 1949 births
- Living people
- Australian male singers
- Australian people of English descent
- Singers from Melbourne
- Australian pop singers
- Singers from Sydney
- Twin people from Australia
- CBS Records artists
- ARIA Hall of Fame inductees
- Sherbet (band) members