Years active 1974–present | Name Graeme Connors | |
Occupation(s) Singer, songwriter, composer, musician Role Singer · graemeconnors.com Albums North - 25 Years On, The Best... 'til Now Similar People Lee Kernaghan, Troy Cassar‑Daley, Sara Storer, Beccy Cole, Slim Dusty | ||
Graeme Connors - Let The Canefields Burn (Live)
Graeme Connors (born in 1956 in Mackay, Queensland) is an Australian country music singer, songwriter, and performer. He is best known for the hits A Little Further North and Let The Canefields Burn. Throughout his music career Graeme has released over fourteen albums and to date has received fourteen Golden Guitar awards among other prestige Australian country music awards. He wrote the lyrics for the Paralympic Anthem. Most recently, he was awarded Album of the Year at the 2011 Tamworth Country Music Festival for Still Walking.
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In 2009 as part of the Q150 celebrations, Graeme Connors was announced as one of the Q150 Icons of Queensland for his role as an "Influential Artists".
Early career and life
Graeme attended school St. Patricks in Mackay. Graeme commenced his music career in the mid-1970s doing support vocals for many well-known acts of the day, including Kris Kristofferson and Sherbet. He eventually recorded his first album And When Morning Comes which received a respectable amount of good reviews.
During the late-1970s through late-1980s, Connors wrote songs that became big hits for Slim Dusty, John Denver and Jon English.
The-eighties
Connors spent the first half of the 1980s writing songs based on truck driving which became hits for Slim Dusty such as "I'm Married To My Bulldog Mack" and "Dieseline Dreams".
By 1988, Graeme had recorded and released the breakthrough single "A Little Further North" to be featured on his first album on the Australian ABC Records label "North". Subsequent singles followed with the releases of "Let The Canefields Burn", "Cyclone Season", "Sicilian Born" and "A Heartache (Or Two)". "North" remains one of the best-selling Australian country albums of all time.