1. Lisa Mitchell finished sixth in the 2006 season of Australian Idol.
20 Facts About Lisa Mitchell
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Lisa Mitchell won the 2009 Australian Music Prize of $30,000 for the album.
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Lisa Helen Mitchell was born on 22 March 1990 in Canterbury, England.
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The Lisa Mitchell family had moved to Australia when she was three and she grew up near Albury on a 20-hectare farm.
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Lisa Mitchell began guitar lessons at 12, and leaned towards the folk and rock genres.
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Lisa Mitchell performed in local cafes and events as well as with a cover band, Chrome, with "three of my best friends".
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Lisa Mitchell was later based in Sydney, London and then Melbourne.
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From August to October 2006, Lisa Mitchell rose to national prominence as a contestant on Australian Idol Season 4, performing cover versions and two of her own compositions, which were "See It in Your Eyes" and "Too Far Gone".
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On 5 January 2008 Lisa Mitchell appeared on an episode of SBS-TV's celebrity music quiz show, RocKwiz, where she performed "Incomplete Lullaby", solo, and then duetted with Quan Yeomans on "Raspberry Beret".
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Lisa Mitchell followed in the next month by her second headlining tour with support acts Ashleigh Mannix and Leroy Lee.
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Paul Lester of The Guardian declared Lisa Mitchell to be New Band of the Day as "there's more to [her] than an ability to hold a note, although she does that very well indeed, even if her voice is perhaps too idiosyncratic for one of those reality programmes, a little too quavery, kooky and girly".
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In June Lisa Mitchell performed at the Glastonbury Festival 2009, which included fellow Australian artists, The Temper Trap.
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Lisa Mitchell performed at Australia's Big Day Out festival series in January 2010.
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Lisa Mitchell released a single, "Spiritus", on 27 March 2012 and undertook a national tour of church venues, Heavenly Sounds, in June with Georgia Fair supporting her.
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On 28 September 2014, Lisa Mitchell released a new song "Wah Ha" as a limited free download, premiering the single on Richard Kingsmill's show on triple j Mitchell followed the release with a video produced with friend and collaborator Kirrilee Bailey, and sold-out shows in London.
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Lisa Mitchell performed for the show at the end of 2014.
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In September 2017 Lisa Mitchell released her 4th EP, featuring '90s covers, titled When They Play That Song.
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On 31 July 2020, Lisa Mitchell released a cover of Gillian Welch's "Everything is Free".
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On 29 September 2021, Lisa Mitchell released a new song "Zombie".
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On 28 January 2022, Lisa Mitchell announced the title of her fourth studio album as A Place to Fall Apart.