17 Facts About Sara Storer

Sara Bettine Storer was born on 6 October 1973 and is an Australian country music singer-songwriter and former teacher.

Sara Storer won a record breaking seven Golden Guitar awards in the Tamworth Country Music Festival in January 2004, and as of 2017, she has won 21 in total.

Sara Storer's older brother, Greg Storer, is a country music singer-songwriter and the siblings have recorded and performed together.

Sara Bettine Storer was born in October 1973 in Wemen where her parents, Lindsay and Fay Storer, farmed wheat and cattle on a 5,000 acres property.

Nine months later, Sara Storer moved to Katherine, Northern Territory, where she taught kindergarten level at Casuarina Street Primary School.

Sara Storer won a talent quest at Adelaide River which provided a scholarship to the College of Country Music, held two weeks before the Tamworth Country Music Festival, in January 2000.

Sara Storer won the Best New Talent category at the 2001 Country Music Awards of Australia for her debut single, "Buffalo Bill", in January of that year.

Sara Storer promoted it by touring with Australian country singer, Troy Cassar-Daley, and United Kingdom singer, Charlie Landsborough, including playing to an audience of over 40,000 people at the Gympie Muster, Queensland.

Sara Storer co-wrote and recorded duets on three tracks: with Greg, Josh Cunningham and Paul Kelly.

Sara Storer joined Conway, Katie Noonan, Ruby Hunter and Clare Bowditch where they performed their own and each other's songs on an Australian tour.

In March 2006 Sara Storer played at the Queens' Lunch during the Melbourne Commonwealth Games.

Sara Storer had encouraged her brother Greg, a cropping farmer from "Strawin" 60 kilometres north-west of Warren, New South Wales, to write music, she has performed his work, including duets with him and she is recorded on his debut single, "When I Was a Boy".

At the ARIA Music Awards of 2010 John Williamson was inducted into their Hall of Fame in October, where Sara Storer performed his tune, "Mallee Boy", in his honour.

In 2015 Sara Storer recorded "Song for Grace", a duet with Lee Kernaghan for his album, Spirit of the Anzacs.

When Sara Storer was 18, her parents moved from Wemen, Victoria to a farming property near Warren, New South Wales.

Sara Storer had lived in Melbourne, moved to Camooweal, North Queensland and then to Katherine and Kalkarindji, Northern Territory in the mid-1990s.

Sara Storer took a break from song writing while focussing on parenting.