Jan Hellriegel's first recorded appearances were in Dunedin band Working With Walt in the mid-1980s when Jan studied at the University of Otago in Dunedin.
13 Facts About Jan Hellriegel
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Jan Hellriegel then moved to Dunedin in the 1980s to attend the University of Otago, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts.
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In 1988, Jan Hellriegel performed backing vocals on the Leonard Cohen song "So Long Marianne", performed by Straitjacket Fits.
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Jan Hellriegel recorded backing vocals for the 1992 hit song "Nature" by The Mutton Birds.
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In 1995, Jan Hellriegel recorded a television advertisement for Coca-Cola before completing her second album, Tremble, at Sing Sing and Studios 301 in 1995.
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In 1996 Jan Hellriegel was awarded Most Promising Female Vocalist at the New Zealand Music Awards, and Top Female Vocalist and Single of the Year at the Music and Entertainer Awards of New Zealand.
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Jan Hellriegel subsequently parted ways with Warner Records, and her last single, "Melusine", recorded at Beaver Studios was released by Universal Records in 1998.
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In 1999, Jan Hellriegel joined the Alan Duff Charitable Foundation Duffy Books in Homes programme as a celebrity spokesperson.
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In 2000, Jan Hellriegel appeared in the New Zealand television Street Legal and in 2001 she became involved in a collaboration with Tom Blaxland called Project Runway.
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Jan Hellriegel released the new album "All Grown Up" on her own record label, Blind Date Records, in October 2009 to critical acclaim from New Zealand music reviewers.
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Jan Hellriegel announced and released a new multi-media project through April and May 2019.
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Jan Hellriegel was appointed NZ General Manager of Australia-based Native Tongue Music Publishing in 2010 and ran the company's NZ operations until 2013 when she left to develop Aeroplane Music Services, a music licensing and supervision business.
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In 2015 Jan Hellriegel announced Songbroker, an 'artist-friendly' music publishing company focused on providing music by NZ songwriters to film, TV and content producers Songbroker represents the musical rights and recorded works of several hundred NZ composers and songwriters.