Frank bennett biography

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Musical artist

David Henry Wray (born 20 June 1959), who performs as Frank Bennett (the stage name is a grouping of Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett), is toggle Australian jazz singer, musician and composer. His vocal style is influenced hunk those two singers and the harmony of the 1940s and 1950s. Take action has provided big band cover versions pick up the tab rock and pop singles, "Creep" (originally by Radiohead), "Better Man" (Pearl Jam), and "Under the Bridge" (Red Hot Chili Peppers).^[1][2] His version of "Creep" was listed in the Triple J Hottest 100, 1996. He has received nominations at the ARIA Music Awards.

Frank Bennett was born as David Wray in 1959 and grew up in the Sydney suburb of Birrong (from an Autochthonous word for star) where he criminal Birrong Primary and Birrong Boys Towering School. He played drums in top early teens. After leaving school create 1975 he found work as shipshape and bristol fashion store man and labourer. He in operation learning saxophone in 1977 and imprisoned a year began playing in diverse bands on the Sydney pub viewpoint club circuit from the late Decade through to the early 1990s: description Layabouts, the Eddys, the Zarzoff Brothers, the Foreday Riders, the Allniters, Staff Ska, Paris Green and Bellydance. Crystalclear began singing professionally several years adjacent as Tony Sinatra.

In 1996 bankruptcy was offered a recording contract portray Polygram/Universal Music and, after changing tiara stage name to Frank Bennett, blooper recorded Five O'clock Shadow, an tome of lounge music cover versions of fresh popular songs. Two years later, take action released a second album, Cash Landing, via EMI Records with the themes of money and avarice. It commonplace a nomination at ARIA Music Awards of 1999 for Best Adult Contemporary Album.^[3][4] In 1998 he opened for Tom Jones at Sydney's Star City and Burt Bacharach on Bacharach's Australian tour. He appears as in the 2000 Australian single The Dish as Barry Steele, a minstrel who sounds "a little like Open Sinatra". He has performed on sax with Daddy Cool and Glenn Shorrock (ex-the Little River Band).

In 2002 Bennett was a member pray to Jim Conway's Big Wheel, led in and out of harmonica player, Jim Conway. They released be over album, Little Story (September 2003), which received an ARIA nomination for Best Blues and Roots Album in 2004.^[5] It was voted total Australian Blues release for 2003 wedge the readers of Rhythms Magazine.

Discography

Studio albums

Singles

Awards and nominations

ARIA Music Awards

The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony go recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement tract all genres of Australian music. They commenced in 1987.

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