24 Facts About Daryl Braithwaite

Daryl Braithwaite was born on 11 January 1949 and is an Australian singer.

Daryl Braithwaite was the lead vocalist of Sherbet.

In 2017, Daryl Braithwaite was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame.

Daryl Braithwaite and his twin brother, Glenn, were born on 11 January 1949 and raised in a working-class family in Melbourne, Australia.

Daryl Braithwaite 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 decided to pursue a musical career instead.

Daryl 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.

Daryl Braithwaite's 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.

Daryl Braithwaite started a parallel solo career alongside his work in Sherbet.

Daryl Braithwaite's next single was a cover of Ronnie Lane and Steve Marriott's song "Afterglow ", originally recorded by the Small Faces, in October 1977.

Daryl Braithwaite recorded that album in the United States with Steve Kipner and Terry Shaddick producing.

At this point, Daryl Braithwaite put his solo career on hold to concentrate on work with his bandmates.

Daryl Braithwaite went on to have a number of solo hits in the early 1990s, including the Australian No 1 "The Horses", a cover of a Rickie Lee Jones recording written by Jones and Walter Becker.

Daryl Braithwaite made his first US chart appearance as a solo artist at No 47 with the 1991 single "Higher Than Hope", a song he co-wrote with Simon Hussey.

Daryl Braithwaite then worked alongside Jef Scott, Simon Hussey and James Reyne to create the 1992 self-titled album Company of Strangers.

Daryl Braithwaite sang lead or co-lead vocals on four of the album's tracks, including two Australian top-40 singles: "Motor City " and "Daddy's Gonna Make You a Star".

The suit was successful, and Daryl Braithwaite essentially had to give up all the revenue he made from Edge and Rise as well as a portion of the revenue from his next album, 1993's Taste the Salt; and, after a 1994 best-of collection was released, Daryl Braithwaite was dropped by his record company.

Daryl Braithwaite did not record another album for 12 years.

Daryl Braithwaite was a member of A Current Affair's "Kokoda Challenge" in 1996, where he travelled to Papua New Guinea and did a 100-kilometre, nine-day trek of the Kokoda Trail with other celebrities Angry Anderson, Grant Kenny, Colette Mann and Dermott Brereton to retrace the steps of Australian Diggers to mark the end of World War II, 51 years previously.

In 2006, Daryl Braithwaite sang on two new Sherbs tracks specially recorded for a greatest-hits compilation, Super Hits; they were The Sherbs' first new recordings in 22 years.

Daryl Braithwaite then resumed his solo career with the 2008 release of The Lemon Tree, an album of acoustic reworkings of both solo and Sherbet hits, and a few covers.

In 2007, Daryl Braithwaite performed "One Summer" on the soap opera Neighbours.

At the ARIA Music Awards of 2017, Daryl Braithwaite was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame by Jimmy Barnes.

In June 2020, Daryl Braithwaite released the single "Love Songs", which became his first top-50 single in 27 years.

On March 4,2023, Daryl Braithwaite joined pop-star, Harry Styles, on stage at the Accor Stadium in Sydney, Australia.