1. Kate Melina Miller-Heidke is an Australian singer and songwriter.
38 Facts About Kate Miller-Heidke
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Kate Miller-Heidke signed to Sony Australia, Epic in the US and RCA in the UK, but since 2014 has been an independent artist.
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Kate Miller-Heidke represented Australia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv, Israel, with her song, "Zero Gravity".
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Kate Miller-Heidke is the only person to have sung at Coachella, the New York Metropolitan Opera, and Eurovision.
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Kate Melina Miller-Heidke was born on 16 November 1981 in Gladstone, Queensland.
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Kate Miller-Heidke's mother, Jenny Miller, was a ballet dancer and then a dance teacher and her father, Greg Heidke, is a high school principal.
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For secondary education Kate Miller-Heidke attended Kelvin Grove State College, Brigidine College, Indooroopilly prior to graduating from St Aidan's Anglican Girls' School in 1998.
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Kate Miller-Heidke completed a Bachelor of Music degree in Classical Voice from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music at Griffith University on full scholarship, followed by a Master of Music degree at Queensland University of Technology.
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Kate Miller-Heidke briefly played keyboards in Pete Murray's backing band, and started her solo career in 2003.
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Kate Miller-Heidke performed at an annual event, Women in Voice, three times: in 2002,2004 and 2005, where she shared the stage with Pearly Black, Margret RoadKnight, Jenny Morris and Chrissy Amphlett.
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Kate Miller-Heidke became known in Brisbane from these performances and her 2005 appearance in Women in Voice 14 won her the Helpmann Award for Best Performance in an Australian Contemporary Concert.
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In June 2004 Kate Miller-Heidke independently recorded and distributed her first EP, Telegram; from its seven tracks, five were written or co-written by her and two by her then-boyfriend, Keir Nuttall.
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Nuttall and fellow Transport members have worked as part of Kate Miller-Heidke's backing band since 2004.
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Kate Miller-Heidke was preparing to sing the role of Mabel in Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance with Opera Australia in late 2005.
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Kate Miller-Heidke was invited by Australian singer-songwriter Deborah Conway to take part in the 2006 Broad Festival project during August, with three other Australian female artists, they performed their own and each other's songs.
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Kate Miller-Heidke followed with her debut album, Little Eve, on 26 May 2007.
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At the ARIA Music Awards of 2009 in November, the Kate Miller-Heidke performed and was nominated four more times, Single of the Year for "The Last Day on Earth", Best Video for "The last Day on Earth" and Best Female Artist and Best Pop Release for Curiouser.
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Kate Miller-Heidke toured throughout the US, United Kingdom and continental Europe as support act for Ben Folds.
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Kate Miller-Heidke featured on UK singer Passenger's album Flight of the Crow.
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Kate Miller-Heidke had formed the project as a short-term, alternative pop duo with Nuttall.
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Kate Miller-Heidke performed the role again at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in October 2014.
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Kate Miller-Heidke sang the screen-role of Amber in the world premiere of Michel van der Aa's opera Sunken Garden for the ENO in April 2013.
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Kate Miller-Heidke broke the record on Pledge for the fastest target achievement: in three days the album was paid for and donations for the reef continued.
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Kate Miller-Heidke was co-commissioned by Lyndon Terracini of Opera Australia in late 2014 to write an opera, The Rabbits, based on John Marsden's children's novel of that name, to be performed in 2015.
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Kate Miller-Heidke took on the role of "female protagonist" in van der Aa's interactive song cycle film, The Book of Sand, based on the short story of the same name from 1975, by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges.
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Kate Miller-Heidke debuted as a TV actress in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation comedy opera miniseries, The Divorce in the role of Caroline.
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Kate Miller-Heidke received two more ARIA nominations in 2017: Best Classical Album for the album and Engineer of the Year for Bob Scott's work.
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At the ARIA Music Awards of 2018 Kate Miller-Heidke sang alongside Missy Higgins and Amy Sheppard on their rendition of "Ain't No Little Girl" in honour of that year's ARIA Hall of Fame inductee, Kasey Chambers.
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Kate Miller-Heidke won the Australian candidacy in February for the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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Kate Miller-Heidke received the Marcel Bezencon award in the Artistic category, given to the best artist as voted on by the commentators of the contest.
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Kate Miller-Heidke appeared in episode 2 of the 2021 ABC TV comedy show Preppers as herself and a fantasy character, the Penrith panther, singing her song, "I Am My Own Panther Now".
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Kate Miller-Heidke sang the national anthem before the 2023 AFL Grand Final and appeared in the half-time show.
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In February 2024, Seven Network announced that Kate Miller-Heidke would be joining the thirteenth season of the singing competition show The Voice Australia as a coach, replacing Jessica Mauboy.
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Kate Miller-Heidke performed along tenor Rosario La Spina and soprano Rachelle Durkin at Opera Queensland's 2024 Festival of Outback Opera in Winton, singing Vivaldi's motet In furore iustissimae irae, arias from her opera The Rabbits, and her "Zero Gravity".
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On stage and in the studio Kate Miller-Heidke was backed by members of Brisbane-based rock band Transport from 2003: Nuttall on lead guitar and backing vocals, Scott Saunders on bass guitar and Steve Pope on drums.
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Kate Miller-Heidke's backing band initially included multi-instrumentalist and singer, Emma Dean, who left in 2006 to pursue a solo career.
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From April to June 2007 while Transport were working in the US and UK, Kate Miller-Heidke's touring band was Campbell joined by Mark Angel on guitar, Ben McCarthy on bass guitar and backing vocals and Joachim Alfheim on drums.
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Kate Miller-Heidke started dating the other group's lead singer and guitarist, Keir Nuttall, in the early 2000s while both attended Queensland Conservatorium of Music.