Darryl Braithwaite
| Daryl Braithwaite | |
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Performing at Caboolture RSL, June 2009.
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| Background information | |
| Born |
11 January 1949 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Origin | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Genres | Pop, country |
| Occupation(s) | Singer |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, keyboards |
| Years active | 1967–present |
| Labels | Festival, Sony, independent |
| Associated acts | Sherbet, Company of Strangers |
| Website | darylbraithwaite |
Daryl Braithwaite (born 11 January 1949) is an Australian singer. He was the lead vocalist of Sherbet (1970–1984), and returned for various reunions. Braithwaite also has a solo career, placing 15 singles in the Australian top 40, including two number-one hits, "You're My World" (October 1974) and "The Horses" (January 1991). His second studio album, Edge (November 1988), peaked at No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart, No. 14 in Norway and No. 24 in Sweden.
Daryl Braithwaite and his twin brother, Glenn, were born on 11 January 1949 and raised in a working class family in Melbourne. His father, a plumber, worked on the Snowy Mountains Scheme in the mid-1950s. Braithwaite attended Punt Road Primary School in South Yarra, then Christ Church Grammar, where the twins sang in the school choir. He later said, "I will always recall the horror of my first solo in the choir singing 'Once in Royal David's City' when the choir master, Leonard Fullard, gave me a note and then suddenly I was on my own. It was terrifying."
In 1961 Braithwaite was in the same class as Olivia Newton-John. In 1963 his family moved to the Sydney beach-side suburb of Coogee where he attended Randwick Boys High School until the end of year 10. He then began a fitter and turner apprenticeship, set up by his father, which he completed in 1969, but decided that this was not the career path for him and left home to pursue a musical career instead. As a teenager he sang in various local pop music groups, first with Bright Lights, in 1967, which included Bruce Worrall on bass guitar. Braithwaite and Worrall were both in House of Bricks and then Samael Lilith.
In March 1970, at the age of 21, he joined Sherbet, a pop band that had already released a single, "Crimson Ships". That group had formed in April 1969 with the line up of Dennis Laughlin on lead vocals (ex-Sebastian Hardie Blues Band, Clapham Junction), Doug Rea on bass guitar (Downtown Roll Band), Sammy See on organ, guitar and vocals (Clapham Junction), Clive Shakespeare on lead guitar and vocals (Downtown Roll Band) and Danny Taylor on drums (Downtown Roll Band). They secured a residency at Jonathon's Disco, playing seven hours a night, four days a week for eight months. Braithwaite was hired as the group's second lead vocalist, but within a few months Laughlin left, and former band mate, Worrall replaced Rea on bass guitar.
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