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Christine Anu (born 1970) is an Australian pop singer from Cairns, Queensland. She is of Torres Strait Islander descent. 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ...
Pop music, in popular and contemporary parlance, is a subgenre of popular music. ...
Cairns is a regional city and Local Government Area located in far north Queensland, Australia. ...
Torres Strait Islanders are the indigenous people of the Torres Strait Islands, part of Queensland, Australia. ...
Musical career
Descended from the indigenous inhabitants of Saibai Island and Mabuiag Island, Anu began performing as a dancer. She then began singing backup vocals for The Rainmakers, which included Neil Murray of the Warumpi Band. Mabuiang Island is an Island on which Torres Straight Islanders live. ...
The Rainmakers refers to either of 2 late 20thCentury music groups: the Rainmakers, a Southern California-based original rock band whose members included: Bruce Bloom; Brad Spitz; Jerry Davies; Ron Levy; Hal Maithonis; Jon Schwartz; and the Rainmakers, an Australian band whose members included: Christine Anu Neil Murray (Australian musician...
The Warumpi Band was an Australian band from the bush, coming from Papunya, Northern Territory, Australia. ...
She began recording in 1993 with "Last Train", dance remake of a Paul Kelly song. The follow-up, "Monkey and the Turtle", was based on a traditional story. After "My Island Home", she released her first album, Stylin' Up which garnered some mainstream success, especially the dance single "Party", and also gained her a position as a spokeswoman for Aborigines. 1993 (MCMXCIII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...
Paul Kelly is a musician, singer and songwriter, born in South Australia in 1955, but long based in - and associated with - Melbourne, Australia. ...
In 1995, Neil Murray won an Australian Performing Rights Association songwriting award for writing "My Island Home". Christine Anu won an ARIA Award for best female recording artist as well as a Deadly Sounds National Aboriginal & Islander Music Awards Award in 1996 for best female artist. This article is about the musical term aria. ...
Baz Luhrmann asked her to sing on the song "Now Until The Break Of Day" on his album Something For Everybody album. It was released as a single and the video then won another ARIA award. Baz Luhrmann (born Mark Anthony Luhrmann, New South Wales, September 17, 1962) is an Australian film director. ...
It took five years for a follow-up to Stylin' Up to be released; Come on Down made her a mainstream star. The single "Sunshine On A Rainy Day" was a Top 40 hit for 13 weeks in Australia.
Acting and TV career Christine Anu has also had a notable acting and TV career. She appeared in Dating The Enemy, a 1996 Australian film starring Guy Pearce and Claudia Karvan. She then appeared in an Australian stage version of The Little Shop Of Horrors in the same year. Guy Pearce Guy Pearce (born October 5, 1967) is an English-born Australian actor. ...
Claudia Karvan (born May 19, 1972) is an Australian actress popular for her roles in the television series The Secret Life of Us and, more recently, Love My Way. ...
The Little Shop of Horrors is a 1960 dark comedy/horror film produced by Roger Corman, later adapted as a stage musical and then a 1986 musical film and a 1991 animated television series Little Shop. ...
Anu's stage career developed with a starring role in Rent in 1998 and 1999. Anu was offered a role in a Broadway production of this musical but had to decline due to commitments in recording her second album. Her links with Baz Luhrmann led to him offering her a part in Moulin Rouge!. In 2003, she appeared as Kali in The Matrix Reloaded and played the character on the video game Enter The Matrix. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...
Moulin Rouge! is a 2001 musical film which tells the story of a young British poet, Christian, who falls in love with the star of the Moulin Rouge cabaret, Satine. ...
Kali is a fictional character appearing in The Matrix Reloaded and Enter the Matrix played by Christine Anu. ...
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Enter the Matrix is a video game and part of The Matrix series. ...
In 2004, she became a judge on Popstars Live, a television quest broadcast on the Seven Network at 6.30pm on Sunday night in Australia along the lines of Australian Idol. The program failed to achieve a similar level of success leading network executives to pressure the judges to offer harsher criticism of the contestants. Christine Anu refused to offer harsher criticism leading to her resignation as a judge in April 2004. In a statement issued on her departure, she said: "I chose to play a positive role model and wanted to encourage these young people in their endeavours, rather than criticise them. Although leaving Popstars Live was a difficult decision for me to make, I do feel somewhat relieved that I can now focus on my music." Popstars Live was an Australian talent quest program similar to Australian Idol that aired on the Seven Network in early 2004. ...
The Seven Network is Australias largest television network, avaliable in major markets across Australia. ...
Australian Idol is the Australian version of the British TV hit show Pop Idol. ...
Anu is mother of two children- Kuiam (b. 1996) and Zipporah Mary (b. 2002).
Discography Singles: Monkey & the Turtle, Come On, Island Home, Party Singles: Sunshine on a Rainy Day, Jump To Love, 'Coz I'm Free Singles: Talk About Love
Acting/TV Career - Dating The Enemy (1996)
- Little Shop of Horrors (1997)
- Rent (1998-99)
- Moulin Rouge (2001)
- The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
- Enter The Matrix (2003)
- Popstars Live (2004)
External links - Christine Anu web site
- Christine Anu Internet Movie Database article
- All Music Guide Christine Anu entry
- Sydney Morning Herald article on her departure from Popstars Live
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