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Born in the bush, Corryong, Victoria, in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains high country is where Lee's life began. The son of a truck driver and later multi-platinum recording artist Ray Kernaghan, Lee spent his formative years growing up in the Riverina country of Southern NSW. Lee's Grandfather was a third generation drover of sheep and cattle and his experiences on the road with his Pop ran deep, producing a string of hits that began with the release of his first album the ARIA award winning " Outback Club" in 1992. His first number one hit "Boys from the Bush" became an anthem, a celebration of a way of life that would change the face of Australian country music forever.

Lee Kernaghan has dominated the charts with successive hit albums including "Three Chain Road", "1959", "Hat Town" and "Electric Rodeo" making him Hit Maker of the Decade and creating a new musical landscape along the way. He has done to country music in Australia what Garth Brooks did in the USA..... he blurred the line and took country music out of the box that it had existed in for decades.... He added a spectacular live show and along the way has sold over one million albums, won 24 Golden Guitars, 3 Aria Awards, 21 number 1 hits, 8 hit albums and now with the release of his 9th album 'Spirit of the Bush' he's done it again, his stellar career continues. - www.leekernaghan.com

Career

In 1969 Lee's first public performance was on the Chickadees radio singing "Two Little Boys" by Rolf Harris. The years rolled by and in 1975 Lee, his brother Greg and friend Glen Simpson formed the band "The Blue Devils". He won the prestigious Starmaker quest in Tamworth as a youngster but it wasn't until 1986 things started shaping up. He had just performed at Fanfair in Nashville and Through songwriter Reece Kirk-Lee met with Garth Porter and the two become lifelong friends and work mates. Garth managed to rope a bit of money from Warner Chappell and they recorded his first solo LP. Rolf Harris, CBE, AM (born 30 March 1930) is an Australian musician, composer, painter, and television host. ... Garth Porter (born September 24, 1948 in Hamilton, New Zealand) is a Country music songwriter who co-wrote some of the songs, with Lee Kernaghan, for the live Musical theatre production The Man From Snowy River: Arena Spectacular. ...

The release of “The Outback Club” in 1992 was a defining point in Lee's music career, not only beginning his long career but also reviving the dream he had given up in the Christmas of 1990. As Lee recalls "I’d given it the last ten years of my life, pretty well full on and I was doing shows like the Carriers Arms in Wodonga and nobody turned up. Not a soul.” Lee's mate had real estate agency and Lee traded his R.M. Williams for a suit tried to settle down. He was nearly 27 years old and borrowing money from his Dad. After co-writing "Boys from the Bush" with Garth he went back to Albury while Garth looked for a deal. Many turned Lee down, one saying the song was too sexist. Finally ABC signed him and the rest is history.

In 2007, Lee received four Golden Guitars for his album, "The New Bush", bringing his total CMAA Awards to 24 and his number one songs to 22. Lee also recieved a CMA award for 'Best Global artist' in 2003.

Collaborations

Lee Kernaghan is a talented songwriter and wrote many of the songs, as well as taking part personally, in the live stage production of "The Man from Snowy River: Arena Spectacular". He gave an impressive performance as "the Balladeer", narrating the story of the Arena Spectacular, and also sang some of his own songs, and songs he co-wrote with Garth Porter. Songs written by Lee Kernaghan (and songs written by Lee Kernaghan with Garth Porter) which were heard during the Arena Spectacular included: "Spirit of the High Country", "Southern Son", "Snowy Mountains Buck Jump", "The Rope That Pulls the Wind", "Kosciusko Moon", "Boys From the Bush", "Pull the Other One Mate", "Electric Rodeo", "Cobar Line" and "You Rock My World". "A Handful of Dust" can be heard on the audio CD of the show.

Lee has also collaborated with many artists over the years and the can be heard on many of his albums. Artists include, Slim Dusty, Smoky Dawson, Travis Sinclair, Tania Kernaghan, Adam Brand, Troy Casser-Daly, Steve Forde, Anne Kirkpatrick, Catherine Britt, Olivia Newton-John and Trisha Yearwood.

Lee was also featured in a joke collaboration on Australian TV where he was supposed to be with the inept Aussie bushie-balladeer Russell Coight (Glenn Robbins) of All Aussie Adventures. In the scene, Coight is seen arriving at Kernaghan's farm to record a song with him. When Kernaghan realizes Coight is present, he rushes out the backdoor to his Range-Rover, and takes off. All Aussie Adventures (full name: Russell Coights All Aussie Adventures) is an Australian television parody of the outback-adventure television genre. ... Glenn Robbins Glenn Robbins (born 1957) is an Australian comedy performer/writer. ... All Aussie Adventures (full name: Russell Coights All Aussie Adventures) is an Australian television parody of the outback-adventure television genre. ...

Family

Lee Kernaghan's father Ray and sister, Tania are also successful country musicians in Australia. Tania Maree Kernaghan, born 18 July 1968 in Albury, New South Wales, is an Australian Country Music Singer. ...

Discography

• CHEATERS (Released 1983 in a 45 Rpm single format)

• FAMILY TRADITION (Released in 1985 with father Ray)

A Side

Track 1 - Family Tradition - Ray & Lee Kernaghan

B Side

Track 1 - It Never Rains, It Pours - Lee and Ray Kernaghan

Track 2 - Sunday Mornin Comin' Down - Lee Kernaghan

Track 3 - I'll Take you Home Again Kathleen - Lee Kernaghan

Track 4 - I Still Dream About You - Lee Kernaghan

Track 5 - When I Grow Too Old To Dream - Lee Kernaghan

Track 6 - We're Gonna Be Lovers - Lee Kernaghan

• BACK TO STRANGERS (Released 1986 in 45 Rpm single format)

• THE LEE KERNAGHAN COLLECTION (Released in 1986 as cassette)

Back to Strangers

Almost in Love

Some Hearts Learn the Hard Way

We’re Gonna be Lovers

I Still Dream About You

Cheaters

Hotter than Hot

It’s Almost Like I’m Loving You Again

At Never Rains, it Pours

Advance Australia Again

• THE OUTBACK CLUB (May 1992)

Boys From The Bush

High Country

She Waits By The Sliprails (The Bush Girl)

Walkin' Out West

Country Girls

Country's Really Big These Days

You're The Reason I Never Saw Hank Jr Play

Rejected

Scots Of The Riverina

You Don't Have To Go To Memphis

Searchin' For Another You

Tallarook

• THREE CHAIN ROAD (August 1993)

The Outback Club

Three Chain Road

She's My Ute

Dust On My Boots

The Burning Heart

'Cause I'm Country

Collingullie Station

Leave Him In The Longyard (with Slim Dusty)

Southern Son

Back To The Shack

Cobar Line

Western Stars

Bonus Disc:

Save the Land (with Trisha Yearwood)

Copperhead Road

Comin’ Down with You

Boys from Bathurst

Saddle Boy

• 1959 (June 1995)

Scrubbashin'

Janine

Shake On It

Country Crowd

Doctor

Rachel's Bed

Where Country Is

Freedom Road

Skinny Dippin'

This Cowboys Hat

The Rope That Pulls The Wind

1959

Bonus Disc:

Working for the man (with Troy Cassar-Daley)

Young years (with Marc Hunter)

A bushman can't survive (with Tania Kernaghan)

The days of old Khancoban (with Smoky Dawson)

Boys from Bathurst

Embers of the fire

Come back again (with Anne Kirkpatrick)

Mary's boy child

Will the circle be unbroken?

C'mon the cowboys

• HAT TOWN (February 1998) - #7 Australia

Hat Town

Bare Essentials

Goondiwindi Moon (with Trisha Yearwood)

A Few Of Us Left

When The Snow Falls On The Alice

Changi

Bango

Cowgirls Do

Gettin' Gone

Pass The Bottle

'Round The Western Beat

Longreach

Lonelyville

• THE CHRISTMAS ALBUM (November 1998)

Santa Claus Is Back In Town

It Must Be Christmas

Mary’s Boy Child

Merry Merry Christmas

Christmas Waltz

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

Blue Christmas

It Still Feels Like Christmastime to me

O’ Little Town of Bethleham

Silent Night

We Wish You A Merry Christmas

Away In A Manger

• RULES OF THE ROAD (January 2000)

Losin' My Blues Tonight

Darwin Jailhouse Window

Rules Of The Road

Cunnumulla Fella

That's The Kind of Life I Live

Where The Whiteface Cattle Roam

The Glass on the Bar

Winter Winds

Aussie Doghouse Blues

By A Fire of Gidgee Coal

The Overlander Trail

Camooweal

Following the Light

A Bushman Can't Survive

Days of Old Khancoban

Leave him in the Longyard (with Slim Dusty)

• ELECTRIC RODEO (July 2002) - #5 Australia

The Way It Is

Electric Rodeo

Something In The Water

An Ordinary Bloke

Baptise The Ute

Long Night

You Rock My World

A Handful Of Dust (with Olivia Newton-John)

That Old Caravan

Wild Side Of Life

Sing You Back Home

Texas QLD 4385

The Odyssey

Bonus Disc: (Multimedia Edition Only)

I’m from the Country (with Travis Sinclair)

This is the Outback

Spirit of the High Country

Mate

Love Hurts (with Catherine Britt)

Diamantina Drover

Conargo Chicago

Boys from Bathurst

In My Next Life

Great Balls of Fire (live from Gympie Muster)

Electric Rodeo Documentary

• ACCESS ALL AREAS (DVD) (June 2004)

Includes over 2 hours of music videos, behind the scene footage and live performances & interviews.

• MISSIN' SLIM (Special Heritage Single - Tribute to Slim Dusty) (September 2004)

Missin’ Slim (with Colin Buchanan)

• THE BIG ONES: Greatest Hits Vol 1 (October 2004)

Hat Town

Skinny Dippin’

Boys from the Bush

1959

Something in the Water

Gettin’ Gone

Goondiwindi Moon

I’m from the Country

The Way it is

Three Chain Road

Leave Him in the Longyard

She Waits by the Sliprails

She’s My Ute

Texas QLD 4385

When the Snow Falls on the Alice

Electric Rodeo

High Country

The Outback Club

Missin’ Slim

Down Under

• THE NEW BUSH (29th April 2006) - #6 Australia, #1 Australian Country Chart

Where I Come From

Listen To The Radio

The New Bush

Diamantina Dream (with Trisha Yearwood)

Love Shack

Western World

I'll Remember You

Livin' In Australia

Little Men

Like Angels

On The Beach

When Country Comes

Close As A Whisper (The Gift)

• SPIRIT OF THE BUSH (EP) (June 2007)

Spirit of the Bush (with Adam Brand and Steve Forde)

Leave Him in the Longyard

Life Will Bring You Home

Aussie Philosophy

Down To Earth Documentary - Taken From Australian Story (Enhanced)

Spirit of the Bush (Video)

• SPIRIT OF THE BUSH (CD & Bonus DVD) (July 2007)

Sassafras Grass

Only 19 (A Walk in the Light Green)

Three Rivers Hotel

Spirit of the Bush (with Adam Brand & Steve Forde)

Diamantina Drover

Bare Essentials

The Way It Is

Spirit of the High Country

Southern Son

Shelter

When Country Comes

A Bushman Can't Survive (with Tania Kernaghan)

Mate

Tenterfield Saddler

Cunnamulla Feller

Hat Town

Spirit of the Bush (Reprise)

Bonus DVD Tracks:

The New Bush

Listen to the Radio

Love Shack

The Outback Club – Live From Gympie Muster

Spirit of the Bush

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Awards and Nominations

• 1979

Finalist: Starmaker Award In the top 10

Best Male Vocalist – Swan Hill Pioneer Country Music Festival

Best under 16 male singer CMAA Award?

• 1982

Starmaker Award

• 1983

Finalist: Male Vocal Australian Music Awards

Finalist: Best New Talent Australian Music Awards

• 1984

Finalist: Male Vocal Australian Country Music Awards

Finalist: Best New Talent Australian Country Music Awards

• 1986

International Fan Fair, Nashville Ray & Lee Kernaghan selected by CMA to represent Australia

• 1992

ARIA Album of the Year ‘The Outback Club’

• 1993

Male Vocalist of the Year Victorian Country Music Awards

Songwriter of the Year Garth Porter/Lee Kernaghan - Victorian Country Music Awards

APRA Most Performed Country Work Boys from the Bush - Lee Kernaghan, Garth Porter

MO Award - Male Country Performer Lee Kernaghan

MO Award - John Laws Country Performer of the Year Lee Kernaghan

ARIA Best Country Album the Outback Club

Golden Guitar - APRA Song of the Year Boys from the Bush - Garth Porter/Lee Kernaghan (ABC)

Golden Guitar - Album of the Year the Outback Club - Lee Kernaghan (ABC)

Golden Guitar - Male Vocalist of the Year Lee Kernaghan - Boys from the Bush

Best Male - Lee Kernaghan the Victorian Country Music awards

Songwriter - Lee Kernaghan - The Victorian Country Music awards

• 1994

Golden Guitar - APRA Song of the Year Three Chain Road - Garth Porter/Lee Kernaghan (ABC)

Golden Guitar - Album of the Year Three Chain Road - Lee Kernaghan (ABC)

Golden Guitar - Male Vocalist of the Year Lee Kernaghan - Three Chain Road (ABC)

Golden Guitar - Vocal Group or Duo of the Year Lee Kernaghan & Slim Dusty - Leave Him in the Longyard (ABC)

ARIA Best Country Album – Three Chain Road

MO Award - John Laws Country Performer of the Year

MO Award - Male Country Performer Lee Kernaghan

Entertainer of the Year Country Music Magazine Peoples Choice Award

Most Popular Male Entertainer Country Music Magazine Peoples Choice Award

Male Vocalist of the Year Victorian Country Music Awards

Duo of the Year Lee Kernaghan/Slim Dusty - Victorian Country Music Awards

• 1995

The Australian Entertainer of the Year Variety Club Of Australia

Nominee: ARIA Best Country Album – Country Crowd

MO Award - Male Country Performer Lee Kernaghan & Graeme Connors

Golden Guitar - Top Selling Album – Three Chain Road - Lee Kernaghan (ABC)

Golden Guitar - Vocal Collaboration of the Year Australian Family of Country Music - Bridge Of Love (Outback/Larrikin)

• 1996

Golden Guitar - Album of the Year – 1959 - Lee Kernaghan (ABC)

CMAA Entertainer of the Year

Nominee: ARIA Best Country Album – 1959

• 1997

Golden Guitar - Top Selling Album – 1959 - Lee Kernaghan (ABC: Warner/Chappell)

Golden Guitar - Vocal Collaboration of the Year Tania Kernaghan & Lee Kernaghan –A Bushman Can't Survive (ABC:Emusic)

APRA Most Performed Country Work – 1959 - Lee Kernaghan, Garth Porter

• 1999

APRA Most Performed Country Work – Hat Town - Colin Buchanan, Lee Kernaghan, Garth Porter

Golden Guitar - Top Selling Album – Hat Town - Lee Kernaghan - ABC

Golden Guitar - Album of the Year – Hat Town - Lee Kernaghan - ABC

Golden Guitar - Male Vocalist of the Year Lee Kernaghan - Goondiwindi Moon - ABC (Warner/Chappell)

Golden Guitar - Heritage Song of the Year – Changi Banjo - Lee Kernaghan - ABC (Warner Chappell/Control)

Golden Guitar - Vocal Collaboration of the Year Colin Buchanan & Lee Kernaghan - Tough Job - East West/Warner (Rondor/Warner Chappell)

Australian Achiever of the Year Australian of the Year Awards

Hitmaker of the Decade

CMAA Entertainer of the Year

This Is Your Life

CMT Australian Artist of the Year Lee Kernaghan

CMT Best Video Clip Lee Kernaghan - Gettin' Gone

• 2000

Nominee: Australian Club Entertainment (ACE) Award – Country Male Vocalist

Best Live Country Act Australian Live Music Awards (ALMAs)

Nominee: ARIA Best Country Album – Rules of the Road

PPCA Award 2000 Presented by the Phonographic Performance Company of Australia to the local country music artist most played on Australian radio.

• 2001

Nominee: Australian Club Entertainment (ACE) Award – Country Male Vocalist

• 2002

Nominee: ARIA Best Country Album – Electric Rodeo

Golden Guitar - Vocal Collaboration of the Year Josh Arnold and Lee Kernaghan – Thank God I'm a Country Boy - ABC Country

Winner – Australasian Country Music Awards (NSW) – Vocal Collaboration of the Year – Thank God I’m a Country Boy with Josh Arnold

Nominee: TSA Bush Ballad of the Year “The Lad with the Laughing Eyes” – Smoky Dawson & Lee Kernaghan

Inducted into the Walk of Fame in Tamworth

• 2003

Nominee: Australian Club Entertainment (ACE) Award – Country Male Vocalist

Nominee: Toyota Entertainer of the Year: Lee Kernaghan

Nominee: Golden Guitar - Video Clip of the Year the Way It Is

Nominee: Golden Guitar - Male Artist of the Year

Golden Guitar - Album of the Year – Electric Rodeo – Lee Kernaghan - Produced by Garth Porter - ABC Music

Golden Guitar - Top Selling Album of the Year – Electric Rodeo – Lee Kernaghan - ABC Music

CMA Global Artist Award

• 2004

OAM For services to remote and regional communities and to country music

Nominee: Golden Guitar - Vocal Collaboration of the Year – I'm From the Country - Lee Kernaghan & Travis Sinclair

Nominee: Golden Guitar - Male Vocalist of the Year – Lee Kernaghan - Diamantina Drover

Finalist: AHA Australia's Best Entertainment Venue – Lee Kernaghan's Great Western Hotel, Rockhampton, Qld

QHA Best Entertainment Venue Lee Kernaghan's Great Western Hotel, Rockhampton, Qld

Nominee: APRA Most Performed Country Work – Something in the Water - Lee Kernaghan Writer Lee Kernaghan/Garth Porter/Colin Buchanan Publisher Warner Chappell Music Aust Pty Ltd/Rondor Music Aust Pty Ltd

Nominee: APRA Most Performed Country Work – The Way It Is - Lee Kernaghan Writer Lee Kernaghan/Garth Porter Publisher Warner Chappell Music Aust Pty Ltd

Duo - Victorian & National Country Music Awards Lee Kernaghan & Travis Sinclair - I'm From the Country

Finalist: Best Australian Country Music Bush Ballad – Spirit of the High Country - Written by Garth Porter/Lee Kernaghan ACMLA Peoples Choice Awards

Best Country Bush Ballad - ACMLA Peoples Choice Awards Lee Kernaghan – Spirit Of The High Country

• 2005

Best Country Male Artist Lee Kernaghan - ACMLA Peoples Choice Awards

The Trailblazers Heritage Award Lee Kernaghan/Colin Buchanan – “Missin 'Slim” – Victorian Country Music Awards

Nominee: Qld Touring Artist of the Year Queensland Gold Medallion Awards

Nominee: Golden Guitar - Vocal Collaboration of the Year – Missin' Slim

Nominee: Golden Guitar - Single of the Year – Missin' Slim

Nominee: Qld Touring Artist of the Year World Alliance of Radio Presenters (WARP) - Qld Gold Medallion Awards

Golden Guitar - Heritage Song of the Year – “Missin' Slim” - Lee Kernaghan and Colin Buchanan

• 2006

Finalist: ACMLA People's Choice Award for Best Male. (Winners announced 27th January 2006 at West Diggers in Tamworth – won by Troy Cassar-Daley.)

CMR #1 Song of the Year – “The New Bush”

• 2007

Nominee – Golden Guitar – Album of the Year – “The New Bush”

Nominee – Golden Guitar – Male Artist of the Year – “The New Bush”

Nominee – Golden Guitar – Heritage Song – “Close as a Whisper (The Gift) – “The New Bush”

Nominee – Golden Guitar – Video Clip of the Year – “Listen to the Radio”

Nominee – Golden Guitar – Single of the Year – “The New Bush”

Nominee – Golden Guitar – APRA Song of the Year – “The New Bush”

Finalist – Tamworth Songwriters' Association – Contemporary Country Song of the Year – “The New Bush” by Lee Kernaghan, Colin Buchanan & Garth Porter

Top 5 Finalist – People’s Choice Awards – Best Male Vocalist – “The New Bush”

Top 10 Finalist – People’s Choice Awards – Best Album – “The New Bush”

Top 10 Finalist – People’s Choice Awards – Best Male Vocalist – “The New Bush”

Finalist – Victorian Awards – Bluegrass and Traditional Country – “Close as a Whisper (The Gift)”

Winner – Golden Guitar – Album of the Year – “The New Bush”

Winner – Golden Guitar – Male Artist of the Year – “The New Bush”

Winner – Golden Guitar – Heritage Song – “Close as a Whisper (The Gift) – “The New Bush”

Winner – Golden Guitar – Top Selling Album – “The New Bush”

Finalist – Victorian Awards – Bush Ballad of the Year – “Close as a Whisper (The Gift)”

Finalist – Victorian Awards – Best Male Vocalist – “The New Bush”

Finalist – Victorian Awards – Songwriter’s Competition – “The New Bush” (with Garth Porter & Colin Buchanan)

Winner – Victorian Awards – Best Male Vocalist

Winner – Victorian Awards – Shared Songwriter’s Competition for “The New Bush” (with Garth Porter & Colin Buchanan)

Nominee - APRA - Most Performed Country Work - "The New Bush"

Finalist – QLD Gold Medallion Awards – Male Vocalist of the Year

Finalist – QLD Gold Medallion Awards – Touring Artist of the Year

Nominee – MO Award – Silm Dusty Country Perfor

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