1. Megan Alexanda Washington was born on 7 January 1986 and is an Australian musician, songwriter and voice actor who has worked mononymously as Washington.
36 Facts About Megan Washington
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Megan Washington has released four studio albums, I Believe You Liar, There There, Batflowers, and Hot Fuss.
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Megan Washington's music was described on I-D Vice as "sexy synth-laden pop" and in 2019 The Sydney Morning Heralds Anna Rose said of her intimate tour run, that "Washington's impressive command of her relatively small stage gave proof her music can work anywhere, anyway, any time".
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Megan Alexanda Washington was born on 7 January 1986 in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea to Australian parents.
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Megan Washington grew up with her father, Rick Washington, a part-time DJ for "weddings, parties and balls"; her mother, Karen Amos, and an older sister named Sarah.
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Megan Washington studied for a Bachelor of Music degree at the Queensland University of Technology and then jazz voice at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music.
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Megan Washington supplied lead vocals, with Foran on piano, John Parker on drums, Chris Pickering on guitar and Sam Vincent on double bass; Pickering recorded and mixed the tracks.
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Megan Washington followed with a second EP, Bennetts Lane, a collaboration with pianist Paul Grabowsky, which appeared in 2007.
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Megan Washington worked as keyboardist and backing vocalist for indie pop artist Ben Lee.
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In late 2008, Megan Washington launched her mononymous band, Megan Washington, with backing members John Castle on guitars, drums and bass guitar, Lance Ferguson, Ross Irwin on vocals, Ryan Monro on bass guitar and Des White.
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Megan Washington observed that "You might think that most people get their information from the charts or something like that but I had so much great feedback after being on those shows".
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In October 2010, Megan Washington performed live during YouTube Play, curated in partnership by YouTube and the Guggenheim Museum.
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Megan Washington received further nominations for Album of the Year, Best Adult Alternative Album and Engineer of the Year for I Believe You Liar and the Single of the Year award for "How to Tame Lions".
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Megan Washington was a mentor for the inaugural season of Australia's version of TV talent show, The Voice, for members of Keith Urban's team.
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Megan Washington wanted to incorporate a "late-60s, early-70s, gold lame Shirley Bassey sound with trumpets and James Bond-y melodies" for her album.
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Megan Washington felt it was recorded in a "spirit of honesty".
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Megan Washington had performed with Miller-Heidke at the Darwin Festival in 2012.
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Megan Washington explained that "My Heart Is a Wheel" was inspired by Kanye West's "Runaway".
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Megan Washington released a single and music video, "Saint Lo", in November 2016.
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In 2018, Megan Washington started supplying the voice of Calypso, the title character's primary school teacher, on the ABC Kids TV cartoon series Bluey.
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Megan Washington launched an online song featuring Climate change advocate Greta Thunberg late 2019, according to Junkee, she created a "Passionate and angry work of art".
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In May 2020 Megan Washington released a single and lyric video, "Dark Parts".
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Megan Washington issued the album's second single, "Switches", which uses a visualiser containing a title character from the album artwork for Batflowers.
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Megan Washington gave a live rendition of the track on YouTube which coincided with the announcement of her involvement in the 2020 Brisbane Festival.
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Joseph Earp of Junkee observed, "It is a breathless album, like the entirety of Megan Washington's career condensed into one multi-coloured burst; a magnum opus, torn from somewhere very precious and important".
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In early 2021, Megan Washington released a cover of Powderfinger's "My Happiness" as a promotional advertisement for Brisbane, Australia.
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In December 2022, Megan Washington released Hot Fuss, a cover versions studio album of her renditions of the Killers' 2004 album of the same name.
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Megan Washington made a turn to film screenwriting by co-writing the screenplay to the 2024 drama How to Make Gravy, adapted from the song of the same name by Paul Kelly.
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Megan Washington played a supporting role in the film and made contributions to the film's soundtrack, with one of the contributions, "Fine", winning Megan Washington the AACTA Award for Best Original Song.
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Megan Washington moved from Brisbane to Sydney and followed with a relocation to Melbourne later in 2007.
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Megan Washington explained, "I knew I had to move out of home, move to Melbourne and grow up".
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Megan Washington had a brief domestic relationship with Tim Rogers.
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Megan Washington described how, "He's a great performer and I guess whatever history we share I've never been able to see him work, so it was amazing to see how good he is".
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Megan Washington reflected on her acting aspirations, "I had always acted through high school and at uni, and there was a time when I thought that was what I wanted to do, but then I got bitten by the jazz bug and here we are".
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Megan Washington explained that she no longer sought therapy through her music, due to a relationship with a "good therapist": "My art doesn't have to play that role any more and probably my next record will be a disco record about trying to find a car park".
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In 2017, Megan Washington announced her marriage to filmmaker Nick Waterman, and the couple has a child, born around 2018.