My Life Is A Symphony Kate Ceberano

• 1 Brave 05:01
• 2 Earth & Sky 04:05
• 3 Time to Think 04:43
• 4 Pash 04:56
• 5 Courage 04:45
• 6 Louis' Song 05:00
• 7 Sympathy 04:41
• 8 Sunburn 03:45
• 9 Cherry Blossom Lipstick 05:37
• 10 Champion 04:06
• Total Runtime 46:39

Info for My Life Is A Symphony

Kate Ceberano will take you through her 40-year career, from her own pop anthems 'Brave and Pash' to the iconic songs she has interpreted along the way – 'I Don’t Know How to Love Him', 'Some Day I’ll Fly Away' and more.

Since bursting onto the music scene in 1983, Kate went on to become a superstar of the countdown era and one of the most prolific and illustrious Australian recording artists of her generation — with 13 Platinum and eight Gold albums. Now, in My Life is a Symphony, Kate channels her era-defining hits such as Pash, Brave and I Don’t Know How To Love Him into a truly powerful performance in concert with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

"This album was conceived and the orchestra recorded in the last months before the Covid ‘blackout’!” Ceberano says. “After several years of waiting to complete it, when I finally got to return to the project and record the vocals it was a very emotional experience for me…back in a studio where I had recorded Brave 35 years before - and with my daughter now singing BV’s. I never wanted to take any thing for granted again. I was more committed, bolder, and more willing to back my stories and songwriting. The power of the orchestra, the arrangements by my talented friend Roscoe have given new life to songs that together we cherrypicked from my albums over the years. Songs that are meaningful to me, earmarking personal memories and travelling with me across four decades." (Kate Ceberano)

Kate Ceberano, vocals
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Mark Goldenberg, conductor

Kate Ceberano
One of Australia's most gifted and versatile performers, Kate Ceberano's music crossed several genres and made her one of the most popular female vocalists of the 1980s and '90s. Ceberano first rose to prominence as the teenage lead singer of Australian funk-pop outfit I'm Talking in 1985. Their debut (and as it transpired, only) album, Bear Witness, produced three hit singles, including "Love Don't Live Here Anymore." I'm Talking disbanded in 1987, and Ceberano released her debut solo jazz album in that same year. Kate Ceberano and Her Septet, featuring her brother Phil and veteran session musicians Alex Pertout and Jex Saarelaht, became a huge hit, and was followed in 1988 by You've Always Got the Blues, which featured Ceberano and Wendy Matthews as vocalists. In 1988 the first single from Ceberano's eagerly awaited first pop album was released. "Bedroom Eyes" became the highest-selling Australian single of 1988 and helped Ceberano win two ARIA awards for best female vocalist in 1988 and 1989. The album, Brave, was released in 1989 and went triple platinum. "Young Boys Are My Weakness" was also released as a single from this disc. Another jazz album called Like Now followed in 1990, then her second pop album, Think About It, appeared in 1991. However, it could not build on the success of Brave and failed to produce a strong single. 1992 saw a stage production of Jesus Christ Superstar open in Australia. Ceberano won the part of Mary Magdalene, and performed alongside John Farnham, Noiseworks frontman Jon Stevens, and former Rose Tattoo lead singer Angry Anderson in the show. The Australian cast album went four-times platinum and Ceberano's song from the production — "I Don't Know How to Love Him" — was released as a single. In 1996, another pop album, Blue Box, was released, and this was followed in 1998 with Pash. The '60s-influenced pop of the title track became her biggest hit since "Bedroom Eyes." A best-of collection entitled True Romantic appeared in 1999.

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