Rose Bygrave
| Rose Bygrave | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Roslyn Louise Bygrave |
| Born | 1955 (age 61–62) |
| Origin | Western Victoria, Australia |
| Genres | Folk rock, Folk-pop, Roots music, Indie music, Jazz, Singer Songwriter, World. |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, Songwriter, Keyboardist, Composer |
| Instruments | Vocals, Piano, Keyboards |
| Years active | fl. ca. 1974- present |
| Labels |
WEA Black Market Music, Universal. |
| Associated acts | Goanna |
| Website | Rose Bygrave/Goanna [1] |
| Notable instruments | |
| [ Keyboards,vocals]. | |
Rose Bygrave (born 1955) is an Australian singer/songwriter.
Roslyn Louise "Rose" Bygrave grew up in the small town of Willaura in the Western District of Victoria and later attended Secondary School and Art School in Ballarat and Melbourne, majoring in Painting and Printmaking.
Her career as a professional musician began in 1974 when she began performing in Ballarat then circa 1977 on the Bellarine Peninsula (early band: The Salty Dogs; Blue Grass, Reggae, eclectic ). Bygrave later joined The Goanna Band, rising to prominence as keyboardist/ vocalist/ songwriter alongside Shane Howard, singer-songwriter/ guitarist and Marcia Howard (singer) in the early '80s. The band recorded three albums and toured extensively, performing in some of the remotest areas of Australia and forging strong bonds with Aboriginal people and their culture. Their debut album Spirit of Place won the ARIA Best Album of the Year, 1982, with "Solid Rock" winning Best Single of the Year. They also won the Best new Band category. Her songwriting debut on that album was a haunting ballad called "On the Platform"; the 'B' side to the single 'Solid Rock'. In 1986 she toured briefly playing Reggae/ Jazz/ Blues with Australian Diva Wendy Saddington with Mick 'Python Lee' Liber on Guitar, Angelica Booth on Bass, Javier Fredis on Congas and Dezzy McKenna on Drums.
Bygrave issued a solo single, "Maybe Midnight" in June, 1989 and commenced work on a solo album but nothing eventuated due to artist management difficulties. Bygrave began performing solo in 1991, and worked as a sought after session musician. Around early 1990 she worked with Yothu Yindi's Mandawuy and Gurrumal Yunupingu as vocal collaborator/coach and sang backing vocals on tracks from their first CD 'Tribal Voice' including 'Treaty' ( the first Aboriginal song to make it onto the Australian Music Charts and achieve international recognition ). From the late 90's she toured with Deb Byrne as keyboardist and backing vocalist on several of Byrne's tours around Australia promoting Byrne's foray into Country Music. Other musicians on that tour were Paul Gildea; Guitar (Little River Band and Ice House) Chris Bekker; Bass and backing vocals ( James Reyne, Ross Wilson..) Davy Porter; Drums, James Uluave; Percussion and backing vocals.
From 1998 to 2000 Bygrave contributed several songs to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation television series Seachange.
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