Clare Bowditch

Clare Bowditch
Clare Bowditch during the songwriters' workshop at The Great Escape music festival, 2006.
Background information
Origin	Melbourne, Australia
Genres	Folk Rock Pop
Instruments	Vocals, guitar
Years active	1999–present
Labels	Island/Universal Music
Website	Official website

Clare Bowditch (born 1975) is an Australian musician, occasional actor (Offspring, Channel 10), radio presenter on 774 ABC Melbourne and the founder of the love-project Big Hearted Business, which aims to teach creative people about business, and business people about creativity, in ways that make sense.

She won an ARIA Awards in 2006 (Best Female), and was nominated for a Logie Award for her work on Channel 10′s Offspring TV series in 2012. She’s had Top Ten albums, been named Rolling Stone Woman of the Year (Contribution to Culture), YEN Young Woman of the Year (Music), toured all over with the likes of Gotye and Leonard Cohen, written for Harpers Bazaar, Rolling Stone and the Drum, and currently hosts an Australian Music Show on Qantas.

Bowditch has released seven albums in total. Her last, The Winter I Chose Happiness, was released on 14 September 2012. In May 2012, Bowditch released the single, "You Make Me Happy", her first Top 40 song, which was featured in Offspring.

Clare is currently an Ambassador for APRA, PPCA and Smiling Mind, and a member of the Government's Live Music Round Table Panel. She was the Secretary of the Music Victoria Board until 2012.

In May 2015, she joined forces with Joost Bakker to put on one of the largest food-waste-free Business (un-)Conferences in the world, in Melbourne Australia.

Bowditch graduated from Melbourne University's School of Creative Arts with a Bachelor of Creative Arts (BCA), a now-defunct degree.

Bowditch began writing songs at the age of three, and continued writing them in private until 1998, when she met John Hedigan and, on the same night, formed a band. They called themselves "Red Raku", and recorded two albums along with producer/drummer Marty Brown, who is now Clare's husband.