Name Alita Fahey | Role TV actress | |
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Alita Fahey is an Australian former TV actress and reporter who appeared on Simon Townsend's Wonder World (Network 10), The Ossie Ostrich Video Show (Nine network) and the children's show Antenna (ABC). She also had roles on The Restless Years and Sons and Daughters and The Boy in the Bush (ABC). Fahey appeared in many Australian films and commercials, has sung professionally for many years both in Australia and overseas, and is an accomplished singer/songwriter. She formed her own production company which specialised in children's musical entertainment and theatre in education shows for schools. She is an avid songwriter, director and musician. Her re-release of her single of the classic ballad Banks of the Ohio has been played on radio stations around the country.
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Fahey has won eight Canberra Country Songwriting Awards some with her co-writers teen country trio 'Brothers3', and Colin MacKenzie.
Fahey received the TSA Songwriters Awards for Best Children’s Song in 2013 (I Should Have Listened), 2012 (Tony's Farm), and was nominated in the same category in 2010 (Where The Eagles Fly). She was a finalist in the Australian Songwriting Competition for Songs for Children in 2011 (Tony's Farm) and for Boy from Cooroy (with Colin Mackenzie) in 2014. She also was a runnerup in the USA Songapalooza songwriting competition 2012 for her song Vodka and Pen which she co-wrote with Colin MacKenzie.