TROY CASSAR-DALEY

'Troy Cassar-Daley' is a multi award winning Maltese-Australian & Aboriginal country musician from Grafton, New South Wales.
He has been a regular at the Tamworth Country Music Festival (where he first performed at the age of eleven), The Deadlys and visitor to Nashville, Tennessee. He performed in the Australian Country Music Showcase in Nashville.
He released his first EP, "Dream Out Loud", and was nominated for his first Golden Guitar for Best Male Vocalist in 1994. He has won many awards, the 1995 ARIA Award for 'Best Country Record', 1996 Country Music Awards in Tamworth, Troy won the 'Best Male Vocal' Award, 2000 CMAA Awards Best Male Vocal and Song Of The Year for 'They Don't Make 'Em Like That Anymore' and almost a decade's worth of Deadly Awards. He won the ARIA Music Award for best country album in 2006^[1].

Contents

Early life & career

Later career

Notable duets

Discography

See also

References

Early life & career

At a very young age, Troy along with his mother moved from Surry Hills in Sydney to Grafton, New South Wales. At the age of eleven Troy went to the Tamworth Country Music Festival and returned the next year to busk on the streets^[2]. At 16 he and his band, Little Eagle, were touring the North Coast of New South Wales and he made the top 10 in Tamworth's "Star Maker" quest. He won the 1996 "Search For a Star" Competition and then toured with Brian Young for seven months in which he began to develop his songwriting skills. After returning home he replaced James Blundell as leader of country music band 'The Blue Heeler Band'.

Later career

The first single 'Dream Out Loud' was released in 1994 by Sony Music and reached No.1 on the Australian country music charts. The album was released in January 1995 and Troy won the 1995 Aria Award for Best Country Record. At the 1996 Country Music Awards, in Tamworth, Troy won "Best Male Vocalist". He also made a cameo appearance in the motion picture ''Race the Sun'' in which he performed a song in a bar scene.
In June that year Troy was part of the Australian Country Music Showcase in Nashville. The Showcase included Lee Kernaghan, Gina Jeffreys and Tommy Emmanuel. As a result Troy returned to the States to record his new album ''True Believer'' with Steve Dorff.
Troy Cassar-Daley partnered up with Kate Ritchie for the singing competition ''It Takes Two'' aired on Seven Network in 2006. In May 2007 Troy re-appeared on the same show^[3], this time he partnered with Krystal Forscutt^[4], a former contestant on Network Tens Big Brother program.

Notable duets

Troy has either recorded, composed or performed with other notable artists, some of them are:

★ Jimmy Barnes - One of the most popular and best-selling Australian music artists of all time.

★ Kasey Chambers^[2] - Australian country music musician.

★ Slim Dusty - An iconic Australian country music singer-songwriter.

★ Don Walker (composed with) - Former band member for Cold Chisel^[6]

★ Paul Kelly^[7] - recognised as an icon of Australian rock music.

★ Paulini Curuenavuli - 4th in the first series of Network Ten's Australian Idol.

★ Dave Gleeson - Lead singer of The Screaming Jets.

★ David Campbell - Australian singer and stage performer.

★ Wendy Matthews - Australian-based adult alternative pop singer who has had won seven ARIA awards.

Discography

★ ''Dream Out Loud'' (1994) by Sony Music^[8]

★ ''Beyond The Dancing'' (1995)

★ ''True Believer'' (1997)

★ ''Big River'' (1999)

★ ''Long Way Home'' (2002)

★ ''Borrowed & Blue'' (2004)

★ ''Brighter Day'' (2005)

★ ''Born to Survive: The Best of Troy Cassar-Daley'' (2007) (Greatest Hits album)

See also

★ Guitar

★ Mildura Country Music Festival

References

1. Troy Cassar-Daley web site
2. http://au.yahoo.com/it-takes-two/couples/bio/troy-cassar-daley/
3. It Takes Two official website
4. http://au.yahoo.com/it-takes-two/couples/bio/krystal-forscutt/
5. http://au.yahoo.com/it-takes-two/couples/bio/troy-cassar-daley/
6. http://www.who.com/who/magazine/article/0,19636,7401070129-1579433,00.html
7. http://www.troycassardaley.com.au/index.php?page=News
8. http://www.troycassardaley.com.au/index.php?page=Discography