BRIEF HISTORY:
Sharon was born in NELSON, NEW ZEALAND and signed to CBS Records, (now SONY Music) as a singer/songwriter in 1978. After enjoying major success in her home territory she was “moved” as an artist to Australia to further her career, which indeed she did. Her debut was as opening act for Boz Scaggs in every major city.
HIGHLIGHTS
Numerous accolades as “Most Popular Female Artist”/”Queen of Pop” in both New Zealand and Australia, the APRA SILVER SCROLL award in New Zealand for “Face In A Rainbow” from her debut album “This Heart….This Song”, BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE IN A VIDEO in Australia for the song “Power”, gold and platinum “record” sales and albums recorded with prominent and inspiring producers. Some of these include John Boylan (Linda Ronstadt), Peter McIan (Men At Work), Alan Mansfield (Dragon). During these sessions many noted guests lent their talents such as Don Henley, Timothy B Schmit, Don Felder (“Eagles”), Bill Payne, Karla Bonoff, Tom Scott…to name a few. Other highlights include performing her songs at both the Seoul and Tokyo Song Festivals.
As a songwriter alone, her songs have been recorded by Dragon, Jimmy Barnes, Robert Palmer and various artists in Europe, Japan, Hong Kong, Canada and the U.S.A. Her most recent co-write was with Robert Palmer and Alan Mansfield on Roberts’s last single “TRUE LOVE”. Performance highlights include sharing the stage with Elton John, Robert Palmer, Jimmy Barnes, Angry Anderson, Marc Hunter, Mark Williams and Jon Stevens.
DISCOGRAPHY
“THIS HEART…THIS SONG”, “WORDS”, “MAYBE”, “SMASH PALACE”, (soundtrack to the movie of the same name), “FOREIGN AFFAIRS”, “DANCED IN THE FIRE”, “EDGE OF WINTER”…also the
lead-off single and various tracks on the ABC 0-9 collection of children albums, contributing songs to the soundtracks for “STREET HERO”, “COOLANGATTA GOLD”, with BILL CONTI and for the television series “SWEET AND SOUR” (penning the Top Ten single of the same name), “DANCING DAZE” and “JUST FRIENDS”……
SO WHAT’S NEW?
The future includes a relationship with “PEER MUSIC” PUBLISHING INTERNATIONAL…handling select past and future compositions.