Brielle Davis
Born1984
OriginSydney, Australia
GenresPop
Years active1996–present
Labels
  • ICAM
  • Rhythmic Muse
  • LGM/Sony
WebsiteBrielleDavis.com

Brielle Davis (born 1984) is an Australian recording artist, known for her song "Serial Thriller" (2006) which reached the top 50 on the ARIA Singles chart.

Biography

Davis grew up with her mother Anne in Sylvania,[1] where she played netball and jazz dancing.[1] Her first album, Brielle (1996 ICAM Records) was produced by Mark Bryan.[1] She appeared in The Fame Game (1997), a documentary about the professional and personal costs of sudden and intense notoriety.[2]

She recorded September's Sweet Child (Graeme Connors)[3][4] in January of 1998, then by mid-1998 she released Brielle via LGM/Columbia and distributed by Sony Music Australia.[5][6] Entertainment magazine, Billboard's Christie Eliezer and Glenn A. Baker noted Davis as an "artist to watch."[6] Rosie's Reviews observed, "instrumentation on this 12 track album is faultless, as are the vocals... however I will be far more interested in what she does in several years time."[7]

Davis was nominated for New Talent of the Year at the 1999 Country Music Awards of Australia, making her the youngest nominee ever for the Golden Guitar Award.[8] She was the first performer to sing the Australian National Anthem at Stadium Australia.[4] Davis was a NSW semi-finalist in the 1999 and 2000 Young Australian of the Year Awards and was a semi-finalist on Australian Idol singing "Even God Must Get The Blues".

Davis returned in 2006 with her first studio release since 1998's "Girl's in Love". "Serial Thriller" (co-written by Divinyls' front woman Chrissy Amphlett) debuted on the ARIA chart at No. 44.[9][10] The song had an electro-rock beat, contrasting Davis' older material.

The follow-up single "Take It Off" was released in March 2007 and peaked at #11 on the ARIA Club Chart after remix treatment by US house producer Andy Caldwell. It also gained national airplay as part of the Nova network's Unsigned initiative and in radio ads for the Leukemia Foundation's World's Greatest Shave campaign. A second album, The Other Side, was proposed in May 2007[11] but was not released. In the following month Davis toured Solomon Islands, supporting Jet, to entertain Australian troops stationed there for Operation Anode.[12][13] An extended play, Crossing the Line, was released later in 2007.[12] It featured acoustic versions of "Serial Thriller", "Oxygen", The Other Side's unreleased tracks "Cybersexual" and "Mine". plus new tracks, "Crossing the Line", "Bang Bang".

In early 2008, Davis was one of a group of entertainers who toured and performed for Australian troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. The tour was covered on Australian Story on ABC1 as a two-part documentary.[14] In July-September 2009 she took the role of Elaine Harper in the play Arsenic and Old Lace at Cronulla's Arts Theatre.[15] In 2012 Davis, on lead vocals and guitar, joined alternative Country, Americana band, Not Good with Horses. The group issued its debut album, Faultlines, on 29 March 2018.[16]

Discography

Albums

List of albums, with selected details
Title Details
Brielle
  • Released: 1998
  • Format: CD
  • Label: LGM P/L (4895732)

Extended plays

List of EPs, with selected details
Title Details
Crossing the Line
  • Released: 2007
  • Format: CD

Singles

List of singles, with selected chart positions
Title Year Peak chart positions
AUS
[17]
"September's Sweet Child" 1998 —
"Girl's in Love" —
"Serial Thriller" 2006 44
"Take It Off" 2007 —

References

  1. 1 2 3 Gripper, Ali (7 November 1996). "Music world's next big thing ... and she's simply Brielle". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 30 July 1997. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
  2. ↑ "The Fame Game (1997) – The Screen Guide". Screen Australia, Trove. Archived from the original on 16 November 2017. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
  3. ↑ "Meet our Australia Day Ambassador – Local News – News – General". Braidwood Times. 22 January 2003. Archived from the original on 18 October 2009. Retrieved 1 June 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. 1 2 Watson, Chad (9 July 1998), "Little Wonder", Newcastle Herald
  5. ↑ Jarvis, Sue (7 June 1998), "Brielle Sings from School to Fame", Sun Herald
  6. 1 2 Eliezer, Christie; Baker, Glenn A. (17 October 1998). "Australia – Artists to Watch". Billboard. p. 70. Retrieved 1 June 2022 – via Google Books.
  7. ↑ "Reviews #1". Rosie's Reviews. 3 July 2000. Archived from the original on 1 October 2000. Retrieved 7 June 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
  8. ↑ Baynes, Jim (15 January 1999). "Brielle, 14, Makes Country History". The Sydney Morning Herald.
  9. ↑ Holmes, Peter (28 May 2006), "Singer gets Divinyl help", Daily Telegraph
  10. ↑ Steffen, Hung. "Discography Brielle Davis". Australian Charts Portal. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
  11. ↑ "City Watch", MX (Sydney, Australia), 28 February 1999
  12. 1 2 Byrnes, Holly (24 January 2008), "Country star sings the drink driving blues", Daily Telegraph
  13. ↑ Eliezer, Christie (15 May 2007). "Music Business News: Tanks for the Memories #1: Jets, Brielle off for Solomons". themusic.com.au. Archived from the original on 22 February 2010. Retrieved 7 June 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
  14. ↑ "Stars behind battlelines", Gold Coast Bulletin, 12 May 2008
  15. ↑ "Arts Theatre Cronulla :: 2009 Season". Arts Theatre Cronulla. 2009. Archived from the original on 13 September 2009. Retrieved 7 June 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
  16. ↑ "Faultlines". Spotify. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
  17. ↑ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 75.
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