About Me - My Biography

Award-winning singer and songwriter Kate Ceberano has become an Australian icon and leader within the music industry. Whether it is her soulful voice, her charismatic nature or exotic looks, she has become a legendary Australian icon over the past twenty-five years. A woman widely respected not only by the music industry, but also for her ability to juggle an abundance of other roles.  From television appearances (Dancing with the Stars, Who Do You Think You Are, Getaway), to charity work as an Ambassador for the National Breast Cancer Foundation, Artistic Director of Adelaide Cabaret Festival, not to mention her award winning performance in South Pacific, and of course being mum to Gypsy.

Kate first found fame with her funk band ‘I’m Talking’, a group that was managed by Ken West, who went on to found the Big Day Out with partner Vivien Lees. The group’s album produced three top ten singles, went Platinum and won Best New Talent (1984) at the Countdown Awards where Kate also won Best Female Vocalist (1985) as well as Best Female Singer (1985) at the Australian Record Industry Association (ARIA) Awards. However after just one album, the group broke up and Kate went solo, and it was in the late 80s that she started to gain reputed success for her soul, jazz and pop repertoire.