1. Troy Cassar-Daley was born on 18 May 1969 and is an Australian country music songwriter and entertainer.
20 Facts About Troy Cassar-Daley
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Troy Cassar-Daley was born on 18 May 1969 in the Sydney suburb of Surry Hills to a Maltese-Australian father and an Aboriginal mother from the Gumbaynggirr and Bundjalung people.
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At eleven, Troy Cassar-Daley went to the Tamworth Country Music Festival and returned the next year to busk on the streets.
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Troy Cassar-Daley won the 1986 "Search for a Star" competition and then toured with Brian Young for seven months in which he began to develop his songwriting skills.
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At the 1996 Country Music Awards, in Tamworth, Troy Cassar-Daley won Best Male Vocalist.
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Troy Cassar-Daley made a cameo appearance in the motion picture Race the Sun in which he performed a song in a bar scene.
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In June 1996, Troy Cassar-Daley was part of the Australian Country Music Showcase in Nashville.
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Troy Cassar-Daley performed the national anthem at the 2003 NRL grand final.
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Troy Cassar-Daley partnered up with Kate Ritchie for the singing competition It Takes Two aired on Seven Network in 2006.
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Troy Cassar-Daley with Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson played together at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 14 March 2009 for Sound Relief which was a multi-venue rock music concert in support of relief for the Victorian Bushfire Crisis.
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Troy Cassar-Daley went on to release the albums Home, The Great Country Songbook with Adam Harvey, and Freedom Ride.
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In 2017 Troy Cassar-Daley was the 50th inductee into the prestigious Australian Roll of Renown.
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In October 2018, Troy Cassar-Daley released his 42-track double album Greatest Hits, along with a new single called "Wouldn't Change A Thing" on the Bloodlines label, part of Mushroom Group.
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In June 2020, Troy Cassar-Daley signed a worldwide label deal with Sony Music Entertainment Australia; he had first signed to the label in 1995.
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Troy Cassar-Daley released the albums Christmas for Cowboys in 2020 and The World Today in 2021, which won the best country album award at that year's ARIA Music Awards.
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Troy Cassar-Daley is married to radio and television presenter Laurel Edwards with whom he has two children.
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Troy Cassar-Daley had been nominated for twelve awards, winning three at the APRA Awards.
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Troy Cassar-Daley has been nominated for thirteen awards, winning five at the ARIA Music Awards.
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Troy Cassar-Daley has won forty-five awards, the most of any artist.
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Troy Cassar-Daley was inducted into the Australian Roll of Renown in 2019.