Daniel Paul Merriweather (born 17 February 1982) is an Australian
R&B recording artist. Merriweather's debut solo album, ''
Love & War'', was released in June 2009. It entered the
UK Albums Chart
The Official Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and (from March 2015) audio streaming in the United Kingdom. It was published for the first time on 22 July 1956 and is compiled every week by the Official Charts C ...
at number two. It was preceded by two singles, "
Change
Change or Changing may refer to:
Alteration
* Impermanence, a difference in a state of affairs at different points in time
* Menopause, also referred to as "the change", the permanent cessation of the menstrual period
* Metamorphosis, or change, ...
" and "
Red
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", which both made the top 10 on the related
singles chart. Merriweather has won two
ARIA Music Awards
The Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (commonly known informally as ARIA Music Awards, ARIA Awards, or simply the ARIAs) is an annual series of awards nights celebrating the Australian music industry, put on by the Austr ...
,
Best Urban Release in 2005 for "She's Got Me" and
Best Male Artist in 2009 for ''Love & War''.
In addition to his solo career, he has worked as a featured vocalist for other well-known artists. His guest vocals are included on album tracks by
Disco Montego
Disco Montego (earlier known as Kaylan) was an Australian R&B and dance music trio. The Dowlut brothers Dennis and Darren, together with Tony Vass formed Kaylan in Melbourne in 1995. They released an R&B album '' No Commandments'' in 2000, whic ...
,
Mark Ronson
Mark Daniel Ronson (born 4 September 1975) is a British-American DJ, songwriter, record producer, and record executive. He is best known for his collaborations with artists such as Duran Duran, Amy Winehouse, Adele, Lady Gaga, Lily Allen, Robbi ...
and
Phrase
In syntax and grammar, a phrase is a group of words or singular word acting as a grammatical unit. For instance, the English expression "the very happy squirrel" is a noun phrase which contains the adjective phrase "very happy". Phrases can consi ...
. His collaborations with Ronson led to working in the United Kingdom including lead vocals on 2007 Ronson's hit "
Stop Me", a cover version of "
Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
"Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before" is a song by the English rock band the Smiths, written by singer Morrissey and guitarist Johnny Marr. The song was first released on the group's 1987 album ''Strangeways, Here We Come''. Marr ...
", a song by
The Smiths
The Smiths were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1982. They comprised the singer Morrissey, the guitarist Johnny Marr, the bassist Andy Rourke and the drummer Mike Joyce. They are regarded as one of the most important acts to emerg ...
. In November 2019, Daniel announced his first single for ten years titled 'Everything I Need', followed up by an album announcement. Merriweather played a couple of sold out London gigs too.
Since 2017, Merriweather has been in a relationship with lawyer Coleen Mensa. In 2020 Merriweather announced his engagement to Coleen and later that year the couple gave birth to Zion Daniel Kojo Merriweather
Biography
Personal life
Daniel Paul Merriweather was born the eldest of three boys for teacher parents, and grew up in the Melbourne suburb of
Sassafras
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in the
Dandenong Ranges
The Dandenong Ranges (commonly just The Dandenongs) are a set of low mountain ranges, rising to 633 metres at Mount Dandenong, approximately east of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The ranges consist mostly of rolling hills, steeply weathere ...
.
Both his parents are teachers and he has two brothers.
His maternal grandfather,
Ted Ellis, was also an
Australian rules football
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er for
North Melbourne
North Melbourne is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, north-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Melbourne local government area. North Melbourne recorded a population of 14,953 at the ...
and
Footscray, while Daniel is an
Essendon Essendon may refer to:
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*Electoral district of Essendon
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*Essendon, Victoria
**Essendon railway station
**Essendon Airport
*Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League
United King ...
supporter.
Merriweather attended The Patch Primary School,
Billanook College,
Blackburn High School
Blackburn High School is a public secondary school for both girls and boys in years 7 to 12 in Blackburn North, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, founded in 1956.
The school has performed in prestigious music events such as The Victo ...
and
Swinburne Senior Secondary College
Swinburne Senior Secondary College is a co-educational government secondary college located at 505 Burwood Road Hawthorn Victoria which caters for Years 11 and 12 students. The College offers Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE), Vocational Ed ...
(for year 11) and left school when he was aged 17.
His musical education began with violin lessons at the age of four;
he started guitar at age 13;
his music grades at Blackburn High were average.
As a teen, he was in a social environment that cultivated violent tendencies and on one occasion was charged with assault.
After dropping out of school, he focused his attention on music, taking vocal lessons and performing in clubs around Melbourne.
Merriweather spent much of his time between New York and London, and as from 2009 resided in
East Harlem
East Harlem, also known as Spanish Harlem or and historically known as Italian Harlem, is a neighborhood of Upper Manhattan, New York City, roughly encompassing the area north of the Upper East Side and bounded by 96th Street to the south, F ...
.
Since the age of 18, Merriweather has had a tattoo on his inside-right forearm bearing the Latin phrase for "love or money".
Merriweather indicated in 2009 that he planned another tattoo for his back – a 100-word excerpt from the last verse of the poem "
Jim Jones
James Warren Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was an American preacher, political activist and mass murderer. He led the Peoples Temple, a new religious movement, between 1955 and 1978. In what he called "revolutionary suicide", ...
", quoted in
Robert Hughes' book ''
The Fatal Shore
''The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding'' by Robert Hughes is a history of the early years of British colonisation of Australia, and especially the history and social effects of Britain's convict transportation system. It also ad ...
'', which includes "For night and day ... we toil and toil".
Music
Daniel Merriweather's first commercially released recording was a guest appearance on the track "All I Want" for Australian dance act
Disco Montego
Disco Montego (earlier known as Kaylan) was an Australian R&B and dance music trio. The Dowlut brothers Dennis and Darren, together with Tony Vass formed Kaylan in Melbourne in 1995. They released an R&B album '' No Commandments'' in 2000, whic ...
's self-titled album in September 2002. The album peaked at No.17 on the
ARIA Albums Chart
The ARIA Charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling songs and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA became the offici ...
.
He signed with the local label,
Marlin Records
Marlin Records was one of the record labels set-up by Henry Stone before he launched the successful TK Records.
See also
* List of record labels
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,
which led to work with
Mark Ronson
Mark Daniel Ronson (born 4 September 1975) is a British-American DJ, songwriter, record producer, and record executive. He is best known for his collaborations with artists such as Duran Duran, Amy Winehouse, Adele, Lady Gaga, Lily Allen, Robbi ...
, a United Kingdom DJ and guitarist, on the latter's debut album, ''
Here Comes the Fuzz
''Here Comes the Fuzz'' is the debut studio album by British producer Mark Ronson. The album was released on 8 September 2003, led by the lead single, " Ooh Wee". Unlike Ronson's later releases his debut album focuses more on the genre of hip h ...
'', ("She's Got Me" and "NYC Rules") in September 2003. Merriweather signed with Ronson's label,
Allido Records
Allido Records is a record label and production company. The company was started by DJ and producer Mark Ronson and Rich Kleiman, a television, internet and music businessman. The label got its name "Allido" from the Stevie Wonder song "All I Do" ...
, and worked on his debut solo single, "City Rules", as a revised version of "NYC Rules".
It was produced by Ronson and featured raps from New York MC
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and was issued in early 2004. Other musicians on the single are
?uestlove,
The Black Eyed Peas
Black Eyed Peas (also known as The Black Eyed Peas) is an American musical group consisting of rappers will.i.am, apl.de.ap, Taboo. The group's line-up during the height of their popularity in the 2000s featured Fergie, who replaced Kim Hil ...
' horn section and members of
Beck
Beck David Hansen (born Bek David Campbell; July 8, 1970) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He rose to fame in the early 1990s with his Experimental music, experimental and Lo-fi music, lo-fi style, and became ...
's backing band.
He received an
ARIA Award
The Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (commonly known informally as ARIA Music Awards, ARIA Awards, or simply the ARIAs) is an annual series of awards nights celebrating the Australian music industry, put on by the Austr ...
nomination for "City Rules" in the
Best Urban Release category at the
2004 ceremony.
"She's Got Me" was released as Merriweather's second single. While neither charted on the ARIA Top 50 Singles Chart,
both became favourites in clubs and urban music circles. "City Rules" won the Most Performed Dance Work category at the
APRA Awards of 2005
The Australasian Performing Right Association Awards of 2005 (generally known as APRA Awards) are a series of awards which include the APRA Music Awards, Classical Music Awards, and Screen Music Awards. The APRA Music Awards ceremony occurred o ...
and "She's Got Me" won the Best Urban Release category at the
ARIA Music Awards of 2005
The 19th Annual Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (generally known as ARIA Music Awards or simply The ARIAS) were held on 23 October 2005 at the Sydney Superdome at the Sydney Olympic Park complex, thus continuing the pre ...
.
"City Rules" obtained some airplay on the major Australian commercial radio stations
FOX FM (Melbourne)
Fox FM (call sign: 3FOX) is a commercial FM radio station broadcasting in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, on a frequency of 101.9 MHz, and is the flagship station on Southern Cross Austereo's Hit Network. The station's transmitter is shared wi ...
/
2Day FM
2Day FM (call sign 2DAY) is a commercial FM radio station broadcasting in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, on a frequency of 104.1 MHz, and is part of Southern Cross Austereo's Hit Network.
History
1980s
2Day FM was one of three radio st ...
and
B105 B105 or B-105 may refer to:
* B105 FM (call sign: 4BBB), a Mainstream CHR radio station broadcasting out of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
* B105, one of the B roads in Zone 1 of the Great Britain numbering scheme
* WUBE, a country music radio sta ...
.
In 2005, he co-wrote and co-produced much of
Phrase
In syntax and grammar, a phrase is a group of words or singular word acting as a grammatical unit. For instance, the English expression "the very happy squirrel" is a noun phrase which contains the adjective phrase "very happy". Phrases can consi ...
's debut album ''
Talk with Force
Talk with Force is the debut studio album by Australian rapper Phrase. It was released on September 26, 2005 by Universal Music Australia
Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd. (UMA) is the largest Australian music corporation. It is a division ...
'', also lending vocals to three tracks including the single "Catch Phrase". In March 2006, ''Undercover News'' reported that Merriweather was recording his debut album, ''The Fifth Season'', with Ronson producing.
However, in August 2011, Merriweather recalled: "It was 12 songs out of a whole bunch of songs that I'd written. I came up with the idea of calling it ''The Fifth Season'' and someone put it on Wikipedia. But it wasn't really an album – it was just a collection of songs. There's a difference".
In early 2007, Ronson featured Merriweather's lead vocals on a cover version of
The Smiths
The Smiths were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1982. They comprised the singer Morrissey, the guitarist Johnny Marr, the bassist Andy Rourke and the drummer Mike Joyce. They are regarded as one of the most important acts to emerg ...
' song "
Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
"Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before" is a song by the English rock band the Smiths, written by singer Morrissey and guitarist Johnny Marr. The song was first released on the group's 1987 album ''Strangeways, Here We Come''. Marr ...
" released as "
Stop Me". It was
re-composed with additional lyrics from the song "
You Keep Me Hangin' On
"You Keep Me Hangin' On" is a song written and composed by Holland–Dozier–Holland. It was first recorded in 1966 by American Motown girl group the Supremes, reaching number one on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. American rock band Vanilla Fudge ...
" by
The Supremes
The Supremes were an American girl group and a premier act of Motown Records during the 1960s. Founded as the Primettes in Detroit, Michigan, in 1959, the Supremes were the most commercially successful of Motown's acts and the most successful ...
. Merriweather admitted in an interview with ''
The Guardian
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'' that he was not familiar with the Smiths song prior to recording the revised version: "Mark said, 'I want you to sing on this - it's my favourite Smiths song', so I listened to it. I'd heard it once before, but I was never a Smiths fan. But I thought it was beautiful".
It was issued as a single in April on
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music, Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese Conglomerate (company), conglomerate Sony. It was founded on Janua ...
and appeared on Ronson's compilation album ''
Version
Version may refer to:
Computing
* Software version, a set of numbers that identify a unique evolution of a computer program
* VERSION (CONFIG.SYS directive), a configuration directive in FreeDOS
Music
* Cover version
* Dub version
* Remix
* ''Ve ...
'' that same month. It was a commercial success in Ronson's native United Kingdom, where it reached number two on the
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart (currently titled Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-s ...
.
It peaked in the top 40 on the
Swiss
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* the adjectival form of Switzerland
* Swiss people
Places
* Swiss, Missouri
* Swiss, North Carolina
*Swiss, West Virginia
* Swiss, Wisconsin
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*Swiss-system tournament, in various games and sports
*Swiss Internation ...
and
Italian Singles Chart
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s.
Merriweather performed it during
Glastonbury 2008.
Merriweather's debut solo album, ''
Love & War'', also produced by Ronson, was released in June 2009, which reached number two on the
UK Albums Chart
The Official Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and (from March 2015) audio streaming in the United Kingdom. It was published for the first time on 22 July 1956 and is compiled every week by the Official Charts C ...
and peaked in the top 10 on the Swiss Albums Chart.
It was preceded by the singles "
Change
Change or Changing may refer to:
Alteration
* Impermanence, a difference in a state of affairs at different points in time
* Menopause, also referred to as "the change", the permanent cessation of the menstrual period
* Metamorphosis, or change, ...
" (February) and "
Red
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" (May), which both made the top 10 on the UK Singles Chart. "Change" appeared in the top 10 on the Swiss Singles Top 75.
While "Red" was a top 10 hit on the
Danish
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* Something of, from, or related to the country of Denmark
People
* A national or citizen of Denmark, also called a "Dane," see Demographics of Denmark
* Culture of Denmark
* Danish people or Danes, people with a Danish a ...
and
Irish Singles Chart
The Irish Singles Chart is the Republic of Ireland's music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA) and compiled on their behalf by the Official Charts Company. Chart rankings are bas ...
s.
On the ARIA Albums Chart, ''Love & War'' reached the top 40 and "Change" peaked in the top 50 on the related singles chart.
At the
ARIA Music Awards of 2009
The 23rd Annual Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (generally known as ARIA Music Awards or simply The ARIAs) took place on 26 November 2009 at the Acer Arena at the Sydney Olympic Park complex. The ceremony was telecast on ...
, he won the
Best Male Artist category for ''Love & War''.
Merriweather was featured on Australian hip-hop artist
Urthboy's single, "
Naïve Bravado", in 2012. In that same year, Merriweather featured on hip-hop outfit
Diafrix
Diafrix are an Australian hip hop duo, Azmarino (Khaled Abdulwahab) and Momo (Mohammed Komba), which formed in 2001. Their music mixes funk, soul, reggae and dancehall.
At the EG Awards of 2009, the won Best New Talent.
Biography
Azmarino (K ...
's single, "Simple Man". In 2013, Australian-American rap group
Bliss N Eso
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worked with Merriweather on the track "
Can't Get Rid of This Feeling". He appeared with DJ
Mark Ronson
Mark Daniel Ronson (born 4 September 1975) is a British-American DJ, songwriter, record producer, and record executive. He is best known for his collaborations with artists such as Duran Duran, Amy Winehouse, Adele, Lady Gaga, Lily Allen, Robbi ...
in
Glastonbury 2015 singing an earlier hit "
Stop Me".
Merriweather cites
Stevie Wonder
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,
Prince
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,
Jeff Buckley
Jeffrey Scott Buckley (November 17, 1966 – May 29, 1997), raised as Scott Moorhead, was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. After a decade as a session guitarist in Los Angeles, Buckley amassed a following in the early 1990s by ...
and
Herbie Hancock
Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American jazz pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, and composer. Hancock started his career with trumpeter Donald Byrd's group. He shortly thereafter joined the Miles Davis Quintet, where he help ...
as his major influences.
In November 2019, Daniel announced his first single for ten years titled 'Everything I Need', followed up by an album announcement. On 3 April 2020 Merriweather released 'Rain'. Merriweather played a couple of sold out London gigs too.
Tours
In January 2004, Merriweather headlined the City Rules Tour of Australia with
Mark Ronson
Mark Daniel Ronson (born 4 September 1975) is a British-American DJ, songwriter, record producer, and record executive. He is best known for his collaborations with artists such as Duran Duran, Amy Winehouse, Adele, Lady Gaga, Lily Allen, Robbi ...
,
Scribe
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The profession of the scribe, previously widespread across cultures, lost most of its promi ...
and
P-Money
Peter Wadams, better known by his stage name P-Money, is a New Zealand hip-hop DJ and producer. One of his best-known works is "Everything", featuring New Zealand R&B singer Vince Harder, which reached number one on the New Zealand Singles ...
.
In March 2006, Merriweather supported
Kanye West
Ye ( ; born Kanye Omari West ; June 8, 1977) is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and fashion designer.
Born in Atlanta and raised in Chicago, West gained recognition as a producer for Roc-A-Fella Records in the ea ...
on his Australian tour.
He opened for
Biz Markie
Marcel Theo Hall (April 8, 1964 – July 16, 2021), known professionally as Biz Markie, was an American rapper, singer, songwriter, DJ, and record producer. Markie was best known for his 1989 single "Just a Friend", which became a Top 40 hit in ...
in Brooklyn and
Justin Timberlake
Justin Randall Timberlake (born January 31, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, and actor. He is one of the world's best-selling music artists, with sales of over 88 million records. Timberlake is the recipient of numerous awards and ac ...
in London;
He has performed live on various radio and television programs, including ''
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
''Late Night with Conan O'Brien'' is an American late-night talk show hosted by Conan O'Brien. NBC aired 2,725 episodes from September 13, 1993, to February 20, 2009. The show featured varied comedic material, celebrity interviews, and music ...
'',
Triple J
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's ''Hip Hop Show'', Radio 1's ''
Live Lounge
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'' show, and Australian TV show, ''
Sunrise
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Terminology
Al ...
''.
He has performed at various
festivals
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and events including the
Montreux Jazz Festival
The Montreux Jazz Festival (formerly Festival de Jazz Montreux and Festival International de Jazz Montreux) is a music festival in Switzerland, held annually in early July in Montreux on the Lake Geneva shoreline. It is the second-largest annual ...
(alongside
Erick Sermon
Erick Sermon (born November 25, 1968) is an American rapper, musician, and record producer. He is best known as one-third—alongside PMD & DJ Scratch—of 1980s/1990s hip hop group EPMD and for his production work.
Career
Sermon started prof ...
), the 2004
St Kilda Festival
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and 2004 Melbourne
World AIDS Day
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Concert.
During 2007, he toured the
UK with Mark Ronson (as well as performing several solo shows). He also performed with Ronson and the
BBC Concert Orchestra
The BBC Concert Orchestra is a British concert orchestra based in London, one of the British Broadcasting Corporation's five radio orchestras. With around fifty players, it is the only one of the five BBC orchestras which is not a full-scale symp ...
at the 2007
BBC Electric Proms. He also performed at the
MTV Video Music Awards
The MTV Video Music Awards (commonly abbreviated as the VMAs) is an award show presented by the cable channel MTV to honour the best in the music video medium. Originally conceived as an alternative to the Grammy Awards (in the video category) ...
on 9 September 2007 alongside Ronson who acted as the official
DJ for the proceedings. On 22 February 2008, he appeared on
BBC Radio One
BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC. It specialises in modern popular music and current chart hits throughout the day. The station provides alternative genres at night, including electronica, dance, ...
with Ronson to perform a special version of his track "Stop Me", as part of the
Chris Moyles
Christopher David Moyles (born 22 February 1974) is an English radio and television presenter, author and presenter of ''The Chris Moyles Show'' on Radio X.
Previously he has presented ''The Chris Moyles Show'' on BBC Radio 1 from 2004 to 20 ...
breakfast show.
He also played at the 2008
Brit Awards
The BRIT Awards (often simply called the BRITs) are the British Phonographic Industry's annual popular music awards. The name was originally a shortened form of "British", "Britain", or "Britannia" (in the early days the awards were sponsored ...
alongside Ronson. Also, he sang "Stop Me" on stage during Ronson's
Glastonbury
Glastonbury (, ) is a town and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated at a dry point on the low-lying Somerset Levels, south of Bristol. The town, which is in the Mendip district, had a population of 8,932 in the 2011 census. Glastonbury ...
2008 set. Merriweather performed in Australia for the first time since 2006 at the
Global Gathering
Global Gathering was an annual dance music festival by Angel Festivals Limited. Festivals are held in countries such as the UK, Poland, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and feature leading electronic music artists from around the globe. The festival ran ...
shows in November 2008 with Mark Ronson's Version Players.
At the 2009
O2 Wireless Festival in Hyde Park London, Merriweather headlined the second stage where Ronson supported him for half a set on guitar. Merriweather has appeared on
television program
Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, e ...
mes such as ''
The Justin Lee Collins Show
''The Justin Lee Collins Show'' is a British television chat show presented by Justin Lee Collins that aired on ITV2 between 19 March 2009 and 21 May 2009. Collins has a small band on the show and a continuing theme is to mention Labi Siffre
...
'' and ''
Britain's Got More Talent
''Britain's Got Talent'' (often abbreviated to ''BGT'') is a televised British talent show competition, and part of the global ''Got Talent'' franchise created by Simon Cowell. Presented by Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly (colloquial ...
''. He performed his single "Red" on T4 on the Beach 2009 in
Weston-super-Mare
Weston-super-Mare, also known simply as Weston, is a seaside town in North Somerset, England. It lies by the Bristol Channel south-west of Bristol between Worlebury Hill and Bleadon Hill. It includes the suburbs of Mead Vale, Milton, Oldmixon ...
.
Merriweather appeared as the musical guest on ''
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
''Late Night with Jimmy Fallon'' is an American late-night talk show hosted by comedian Jimmy Fallon.[ About pag ...](_blank)
'' on 14 July 2009, performing "Change", and Letterman on 18 February 2010 when he performed "Red".
In Spring 2010, Merriweather toured as the opening act for British light jazz and
R&B singer
Corinne Bailey Rae
Corinne Jacqueline Bailey Rae (; born 26 February 1979) is an English singer and songwriter. She is best known for her 2006 single "Put Your Records On". Bailey Rae was named the number-one predicted breakthrough act of 2006 in an annual BBC po ...
.
Discography
* ''
Love & War'' (2009)
Awards
References
External links
*
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1982 births
Living people
APRA Award winners
Australian male singers
Australian hip hop musicians
Australian contemporary R&B singers
Australian soul singers
ARIA Award winners
J Records artists
Australian people of English descent
Australian people of Irish descent
Allido Records artists
Neo soul singers
Musicians from Melbourne
Australian male rappers
Australian expatriates in the United States
Australian expatriates in the United Kingdom
People from East Harlem
People educated at Blackburn High School
People from Yarra Ranges