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Sarah Blasko is a solo artist who hails from Sydney, Australia. She has released five albums under her name; 'The Overture & The Underscore' (2004), 'What The S. Ea Wants, The Sea Will Have' (2006), 'As Day Follows Night' (2009), 'I Awake' (2012), and 'Eternal Return' (2015). She also wrote the score to Bell Shakespeare's theatrical production of 'Hamlet' in 2009, in 2011 released a collaboration with fellow Australian singer/songwriter's Holly Throsby & Sally Seltmann called 'Seeker Lover Keeper' & co-wrote the music for the Sydney Dance Company Production 'Emergence' with Nick Wales in 2013.

Australian songwriter arrived in the U.S. In 2005 with a pedigree that couldn't be ignored. Trailing a list of ARIA Award nominations in the categories of Best Album, Best Female Artist, Best Breakthrough Artist, and Best Pop Release, she distinguished herself with an ethereal, lovelorn delivery alongside graceful arrangements and an overall somber, inward-looking disposition. Raised by missionary parents, sang her first songs in church alongside her tone-deaf mother, but the influences that came across more readily in her music derived from the '80s radio and television she heard as a child:,, and. Those popular acts, combined with the composers her professor father introduced her to --,, and -- formed a pleasing musical jumble she would later pick apart and repackage into digestible, brainy pop. In high school, led a jazz and blues-influenced band with her sister.

That band soon dissolved and other groups would follow, but within the space of a few years was determinedly a solo act. An introductory EP, the six-song, arrived in 2004 and was routinely referred to as 'homespun.' But its promise propelled, who returned later that year with the full-length. After racking up fans in Australia, she made her way to Hollywood. Following the album's 2005 release in America, embarked on tours with the likes of and.

Her second full-length album,, was released in Australia in 2006, debuting at number seven on the ARIA chart. Two years later, she decamped to Sweden and began working with, who produced 2009's. It climbed to number five in Australia and was repackaged with the 15-track Live at the Forum a year later.