1. Margaret Mary Urlich was a New Zealand singer who lived in Australia for most of her career.
16 Facts About Margaret Urlich
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Margaret Urlich was successful in both New Zealand and Australia, selling over 400,000 albums during her career, ranking her as one of New Zealand's most successful recording artists.
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Margaret Urlich was the cousin of both fellow New Zealand singer Peter Urlich and Australian musician Jen Cloher.
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Margaret Urlich began her career as lead vocalist for the new wave band Peking Man with her brother Pat, Tim Calder, Perry Marshall, Jay F-Bula, Neville Hall, John Fearon.
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Margaret Urlich was later a member of an all-girl pop group in New Zealand called When the Cat's Away.
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Margaret Urlich recorded her debut solo studio album, Safety in Numbers, at Studios 301 in Sydney and released it in New Zealand in 1989 and Australia in March 1990.
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Margaret Urlich won an ARIA Award in 1991 for "Best Breakthrough Artist".
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Margaret Urlich chose not to appear in Braithwaite's film clip as she had just released Safety in Numbers and was working to establish herself as a solo artist.
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Margaret Urlich went to London to co-write with writers such as Rob Fisher, with whom she wrote the album's title track, "Chameleon Dreams".
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Margaret Urlich returned to London, where she co-wrote a number of songs with Simon Law and Tony Swain, before completing the project with three tracks produced by Swain.
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Margaret Urlich attended the awards ceremony and performed "Love Train".
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In 1993, Margaret Urlich was part of Export Music Australia and Austrade's second Wizards of Oz promotion.
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Margaret Urlich toured Japan with fellow singer Rick Price and the group Yothu Yindi.
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Margaret Urlich spent much of 1994 living back in New Zealand and appeared as Mary Magdalene in a major concert production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar.
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Margaret Urlich released a version of "I Don't Know How to Love Him" that reached No 44 on the New Zealand singles charts.
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Margaret Urlich made a special guest performance on series 1, episode 6 of The Micallef Program, performing a comical duet of the Carly Simon classic "You're So Vain" with Shaun Micallef.