Dan Sultan
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Dan Sultan (b. 1983) is an Australian singer. He plays what he calls rock'n'roll and is often called world music.[1]
Biography
Daniel Leo Sultan was born in 1983[2] and grew up in Williamstown, Melbourne. His father was Irish and his mother was Aboriginal from the Arrernte and Gurindji people.[3] He started playing guitar aged four and wrote his first song at ten.[4]
With Scott Wilson he has released an album called Homemade Biscuits with the help of John Butler’s Seed program.[3] Sultan won the Single Release of The Year at the 2007 Deadly Awards for his song "Your Love is Like a Song".[5]
His second album, Get Out While You Can, was released in November 2009. It reached #1 on the independent Australian charts[6] and was a Triple J feature album.[7]
His band is made up of Wilson (vocals and guitar), Jarrod Ross (bass), Peter Marin (drums), Gina Woods (keyboards), Steven Veale (horns) and Ben Veale (horns).[8]
Sultan features in the film Bran Nue Dae,[9] together with Geoffrey Rush, Missy Higgins and Jessica Mauboy. Sultan and his band have performed at most major Australian music festivals. Paul Kelly invited Sultan and Wilson to contribute to the Kev Carmody tribute album, Cannot Buy My Soul, as well as the concert of the same name at the Sydney Festival 2008 and Queensland Music Festival 2009.
Sultan is a member of The Black Arm Band, a collection of many of Australia's premier Aboriginal musicians.
Discography
Albums
- Homemade Biscuits - TrueForm Recording (SULT001) (13 March 2006)[10]
- Get Out While You Can - Independent/MGM Distribution (SUL002) (6 November, 2009)[11][12] AUS #90
Singles
- "Your Love is Like a Song" (2009)
Filmography
- Bran Nue Dae - Lester (2009)
References
- ^ The Australian Big picture platform for music
- ^ FasterLouder Dan Sultan, Falls Festival, 01/01/04
- ^ a b The Sydney Morning Herald Dan Sultan - the black Elvis?
- ^ The Northern Star, 6 May 2010, "Dan Sultan is enjoying many of the trappings of rising stardom, but there are limits" by Georgina Bible
- ^ Living Black Profile on Dan Sultan
- ^ Illawarra Mercury, 6 May 2010, "Savouring success" by Emma Spillett
- ^ Canberra Times, 4 March 2010, "Bran nue Sultan of swing" by Matthew Heath
- ^ The Newcastle Herald, 24 January 2008, "He is the Sultan of sing" by Stephanie Bradley
- ^ Sunshine Coast Daily, 1 May 2010, "Sultan's on a career high"
- ^ Sunday Telegraph, 2 August 2009, Homemade Biscuits
review
- ^ Herald Sun, 19 November 2009, "the sultan of simplicity", review by Cameron Adams
- ^ The Age, 20 November 2009, Get Out While You Can review by Jo Roberts
External links
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