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Children of Zeus (UK)

Astral People & Handsome Tours proudly present the return of Children Of Zeus.

The return of Manchester’s finest. Cool out n get lifted as Children of Zeus deliver their smoothed out, future-leaning brand of British street soul across Australia and New Zealand this November.

The dynamic duo of Konny Kon and Tyler Daley have carved out their own distinct lane of r&b and hip hop. The formula - a strong flavour of gritted soul described no better than themselves: “We make classic soul for Hip Hop heads”.

Both storied journeymen in their own right, the combination of Children Of Zeus burst into the public eye following the release of their debut album Travel Light in 2018. Dropping via cult UK imprint First Word, the album perfectly gives both referential nods of nostalgia while also looking forward, featuring in numerous 'Album of the Year' lists. After two years extensively touring the UK, Europe, Australia and South Africa - then came the pandemic.

With shows on ice, Children of Zeus took the time to mature their sound. The result - 2021’s brilliant sophomore album Balance. Taking the blueprint of their debut and evolving it into a deeper, more refined body of work. Konny’s laidback flow and Tyler’s buttery vocals return with a masterful piece encompassing hip hop, neo-soul, gospel and r&b. Balance has cemented the duo as one of the world’s most compelling hip hop / soul acts attracting a legion of fans.

Over the past few years, they’ve garnered praise far and wide; from Jazzie B to Jazzy Jeff. They've done performances for the likes of Soulection, BBC, and Colors in addition to hosting their monthly NTS Radio show and collaborating with artists like Beat Butcha, Black Milk and Goldie.

The Children of Zeus sound is now fully grown. It's time to bring 'Balance' into the universe. This is unashamedly big people music to be played out of big speakers. Catch headline shows in Brisbane, Sydney, Perth, Auckland, Wellington plus a special appearance at Strawberry Fields this November.

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Carl Panuzzo

Carl Pannuzzo, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist autodidact. From Bob Sedergreen, Opera Australia, Mia Dyson, Stephen Magnusson, Paul Grabowsky, Vika and Linda Bull, Kavisha Mazzella, Cirque du Soleil, Fred Smith, Tripod, Checkerboard, Acapelicans and Music Outback. As a creator, interpreter and improviser, Carl is recognised as a sensitive, dynamic and fearless singer, a quickfire musical mind.

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Infinity Song (USA)

Infinity Song is a Soft Rock band based in New York City comprised of 4 siblings, Abraham, Angel, Israel, and Momo Boyd. With a blend of tight vocal harmonies, dreamy lyricism and sublime guitar riffs, the band creates a transcendent experience for the audience on every stage and in their recorded music.

Homeschooled academically and musically, along with their 5 other brothers and sisters, by parents who founded the Boys & Girls Choirs of Detroit, the siblings have performed in front of audiences since Pre-K. They were raised on classical, gospel and jazz, like Pat Methany, Marvin Gaye, The Winans Family and many others. Infinity Song’s journey was a labored yet adventurous climb. In 2006, the Boyd patriarch, John Boyd, relocated the entire family from Detroit to New York and they began performing publicly all around the city. Singing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the morning, on 5th Avenue in the afternoon and Times Square at night, eventually Central Park’s Bethesda Fountain became a permanent stage for the next 12 years of their lives. After several years of developing a following and turning casual park visitors into loyal fans, the group was introduced to JAY Z.

In 2016, the band was signed to Roc Nation by JAY Z, who advised them to not conform to the label’s artistic culture, but rather allow Roc Nation’s artistic culture to catch up to them. 4 years later in 2020, the siblings made a giant splash with their debut album “Mad Love” and several viral videos that amassed millions of views across all social media sites, garnering attention and support from some of Hollywood’s biggest names. Now again in 2023 - 2024 Infinity Song is reeling from the reception of their newest viral singles, Haters Anthem & Slow Burn, from their latest EP METAMORPHOSIS. Their catchy singles are making waves all around the world. Even leading many listeners to compare the band to legendary 70s groups such as Fifth Dimension, The Mamas and The Papas, and ABBA. With this amount of excitement surrounding their project, Infinity Song is ready to continue to solidify their place in the space where great music is being created in today’s culture.

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Andrew De Silva

Andrew Conrad De Silva (born 23 November 1974) is an Australian R&B and Rock music singer. He was a member of the band CDB from 1993 to 1998, when he left to undergo treatment for cancer. De Silva won Australia's Got Talent in 2012, which included a cash prize of $250,000.

Andrew De Silva formed CDB with Brad Pinto and Gary Pinto. Between 1991 and 1999, the group released two studio albums and won an ARIA Music Award. They disbanded in 1999.

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WILSN

Australian singer/songwriter WILSN has always known a thing or two about being assertive and standing up for herself and others; she’s proved it time and again over the past seven-plus years. Yet never before have we heard the artist quite as confident, as unapologetic, or as astoundingly self-assured as she is on her latest single. Cinematic and smoldering, “If You Wanna Love Me” is a searing rush of raw passion channeled through a timeless soul-soaked rock sound.

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CJ Commerford & The Supertones

The Mornington Peninsula’s CJ Commerford & The Supertones’ have the power to
ease your mind, sweeping you back to the golden era of 70s soul.
A celebration of all moments analogue, beautifully human in one’s life, CJ channels this
into a soulful blues-rock sound written from his deep love and grounding connection to

vintage music.

It’s this wholesome vibration that makes every performance feel as tactile as the last,

allowing listeners to step into a world of sepia-toned warmth.

‘The Supertones’ are the five-piece backbone to CJ’s vintage sound, allowing for those

vintage moments to be fully realised onstage and in the studio.

It’s that ‘greater than the sum of its parts’ combination of members. Guitarist Lennie
Farchione, bassist Aidan Efron, drummer Alex Keser, trumpet player Dave Flynn and
keys/saxophonist Sebastian Farchione together with CJ create a sonic wash ‘that feels

simultaneously grounded and explorative’ (Happy Mag, 2020).

From their roots in seaside tales to the ever-present modern-vintage flavour, their
latest single ‘Sugar’ heightens this spirit with hooky riffs, sultry melodies and

undeniable positive energy to liquefy your troubles.

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Rod Paine & The Fulltime Lovers

Out front on vocals and harmonica, the charismatic Rod Paine is a stylish showman with one of the most soulful and inspiring voices in this land. Charming audiences for over 30 years, he has walked the stages throughout the country delivering a sound somewhere between Muscle Shoals and mid-sixties electric Blues. Add the broken-up harp sound emanating from his little 40-year-old amp, and he is hard to draw a comparison with.

Ray Tully and Tony Harwood form a dynamic rhythm section that is the backbone of the act. Performing together for over 34 years, this tight unit has graced various line-ups such as The Sensational Rocket 88’s, The Redliners, The Detonators and Straight 8’s to name just a few. In 2014, the Fulltime Lovers welcomed the extraordinary Co Tipping to take over guitar duties, wielding the Fender Stratocaster in a way very few can. This important inclusion signalled a shift in the band’s sound and an extension of its broad appeal.

The recent addition of Michael Shannon on Hammond organ has added colour and depth to the repertoire, where his incredible musical knowledge shows through. In 2013, Rod Paine & The Fulltime Lovers won the prestigious MBAS Blues Performer of the Year Award. They subsequently represented the MBAS in 2014 at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis USA, where they competed with the world’s best to impress an international audience.

Check out some of Rod Paine and The Fulltime Lovers below thanks to the fantastic MBAS:

(124) Rod Paine & Fulltime Lovers @ MBAS May 31st 2022 - YouTube

This is a General Admission show with choice of limited seating upon arrival into George Lane. Support for the evening is still to be announced.

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Daniel Serpa

Foremost a bass guitarist, producer, and songwriter, the hard-to-categorise 18-year-old Filipino-Colombian musician is from the western suburbs of Melbourne. He released his self-made debut EP from 2022, “Gem”, made entirely on his iPhone and gave listeners a glimpse into the world of his talent and passion for making music, with songs like his fan favourite “Wonchuuu”.

Since then, Serpa has been creating in the shadows, opting to obsess over every new sound that came out of his psyche. Now, his work has paid off and has blossomed into his currently untitled and soon-to-be-released first album, full of tracks that sparkle and get carried away in their inherent smoothness, tight rhythms, and catchy melodies.

“mmmmmm this is cool" - Frank Sativa (365k monthly Spotify listeners) on Serpa’s music.

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Tyson Yoshi

Ben Cheng Tsun Yin (Chinese: 程浚彥; born 17 July 1994), better known by his stage name Tyson Yoshi, is a Hong Kong independent singer, songwriter, and MV director. He made his debut in 2018 with his single To My Queen.

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Tyson Yoshi attended Sedbergh School in the United Kingdom and later studied interior architecture at the University of Brighton. In 2018, he started producing music in Taiwan and debuted with the single, To My Queen. In July 2019, he became famous with Christy, a song written to his girlfriend. Christy went on to accumulate more than one million views on YouTube, the first of his songs to do so.

The name "Tyson Yoshi" derives from his first name's initialism, "T.Y". "Tyson" was one of his middle-school nicknames, and "Yoshi" is from Yoshinoya, a food chain found widely across Hong Kong.

Tyson Yoshi started as an independent singer in 2018. His first album, 1st, was released in 2019. He is one of Hong Kong's best-known hip hop artists and rappers, with over two million streams on Spotify in more than 100 countries in 2019. In 2021, his popularity surged again after his performance in Music is Live with Terence Lam, Keung To and Jer Lau. As of 2022, Christy has garnered more than 20 million views on YouTube.

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Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey, (born March 27, 1969/70, Huntington, New York, U.S.), American pop singer, noted for her remarkable vocal range. She was one of the most successful female performers of the 1990s and remained popular into the early 21st century.

Depending on the source, Carey was born in 1969 or 1970. Her mother was a vocal coach and former opera singer, and Carey began performing as a child. After graduating (1987) from high school in Greenlawn, New York, she moved to New York City to pursue a singing career. Carey made a demo tape that led Tommy Mottola, an executive at Columbia Records, to sign her in 1988; the couple married in 1993. Her debut album, Mariah Carey (1990), showcased her incredible vocal range and blended several musical genres, including gospel, pop, and rhythm and blues (R&B). It was a huge success, and in 1991 Carey won Grammy Awards for best new artist and best female pop vocalist. That same year the title track from her follow-up album, Emotions, became her fifth consecutive chart-topping single. Subsequent hit albums included Music Box (1993) and Daydream (1995), both of which sold some 10 million copies in the United States, as well as the holiday-themed Merry Christmas (1994). All the recordings were accompanied by music videos that helped make Carey a fixture on the cable network MTV.

Despite such success, Carey grew tired of the sweet and wholesome image that her label had developed for her. After announcing her separation from Mottola in 1997 (they divorced in 1998), she released Butterfly (1997), which reflected her new independence. The album was heavily influenced by hip-hop and rap, and the related music videos revealed a more sexual Carey. The single “Heartbreaker” (featuring Jay-Z) topped the charts in 1999, making Carey the first artist to hit number one on the Billboard singles chart in each year of a decade. The achievement underscored her status as one of the best-selling vocalists in the world that decade.

In 2001 Carey signed an $80 million contract with Virgin Records that made her the highest-paid recording artist. Her career was soon interrupted, however, when she suffered a breakdown and was hospitalized following erratic behaviour. (Carey revealed in 2018 that she had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.) She starred in Glitter (2001), but both the semiautobiographical film and its accompanying album did not fare well. In 2002 Virgin terminated its contract with Carey. Later that year she signed with Island/Def Jam, but her first album for the label, Charmbracelet (2002), was a disappointment. However, her follow-up, The Emancipation of Mimi (2005), was a critical and commercial success, becoming the top-selling album of the year in the United States, with more than six million copies sold. It also earned three Grammy Awards, including best contemporary R&B album. “Touch My Body,” from E=MC2 (2008), became Carey’s 18th number one song on the Billboard singles chart, moving her past Elvis Presley on the all-time list and leaving her just two short of the Beatles’ record. Her later recordings included Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel (2009), a second Christmas album (2010), Me. I Am Mariah…The Elusive Chanteuse (2014), and Caution (2018).

In addition to her recording career, Carey continued to act. After appearing in the drama Tennessee (2008), she earned praise for her portrayal of a social worker in the critically acclaimed Precious (2009). Her later film credits included Lee Daniels’ The Butler (2013) and Girls Trip (2017). In 2013 she joined the television talent show American Idol as a judge for its 12th season, and two years later she began a series of residencies in Las Vegas.

Her memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey (written with Michaela Angela Davis), was published in 2020.

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