Tash Sultana | |
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Birth name | Natasha Sultana |
Born | June 18, 1995 |
Origin | Melbourne |
Years active | 2013–present |
Labels | Lonely Lands |
Website | tashsultana |
Natasha Sultana, known professionally as Tash Sultana, is an Australian musician, singer-songwriter and looping artist from Melbourne. Described as a "one-woman band who brings new meaning to the concept of multi-tasking", she is best known for her 2016 single "Jungle", which was voted into third place in the Triple J Hottest 100, 2016.
Sultana is a Maltese-Australian who has been playing guitar since she was three years old. During her teenage years, she played in a band known as MindPilot from 2008 to 2012 as a guitarist/lead vocalist. She developed drug-induced psychosis at seventeen years old. Her career in music began through busking, and she has been active as a musician on Bandcamp since 2013.
In 2016, Sultana shared a video of herself performing on social media that garnered one million views within five days. In the same year, she won the J Award for Unearthed Artist of the Year and had two of her tracks voted into the Triple J Hottest 100, 2016: "Jungle" (No. 3) and "Notion" (No. 32). Both are singles from her EP Notion. Sultana performed as part of the Strange Little Birds tour, and also at the Woodford Folk Festival, Southbound, and St Jerome's Laneway Festival. She is currently managed by Lemon Tree Music with whom she signed in June 2016.