Penny Flanagan (born 1970) is an Australian singer and author.

Early life

Flanagan attended high school at Monte Sant' Angelo Mercy College and is a Sydney-based singer, songwriter, musician and novelist. Her musical career began in 1989 as one half of the folk-pop duo

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. The duo released the 1991 album ''Thursday's Fortune'' before Flanagan went solo.

Career

The first single from her debut album, ''Bravado'', was "Lap It Up" which hit No. 52 in the

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. The album was produced by

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and featured Paul Hester from

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on drums. She also received significant radio and

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play for her cover of

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's " When You Were Mine" from her EP ''Seven Flights Up'' which was released on her own independent label, Penny Dreadful Records. In 1997, she contributed an offbeat cover of

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" to the soundtrack of the Australian film ''Dust Off The Wings'' and released a music video for the song that aired on

and ''

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''. Her next release, ''Light Sleeper'', was praised by Australian '' Rolling Stone Australia'' magazine as "a mature and intelligent release from a genuine talent, deserving of wider success." The album was produced by Tim Powles of

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and featured a duet with Steve Kilbey on the track "Into the Sun". After the release of ''Light Sleeper'' she retreated from performing to focus on raising her three children. She has also written three books, the novels ''Sing to Me'' and ''Surviving Hal'', and children's book ''Changing The Sky''.

Personal life

Her father, John Flanagan, is an Australian author best known for the '' Ranger's Apprentice'' novel series.Showbiz a family affair for Flanagan , Illawarra Mercury 26 June 2012. Retrieved 13 June 2013
/ref> She is the sister of actress and comedian

Kitty Flanagan Kitty Flanagan (born 1968) is an Australian comedian, writer and actress who works in Australia and the United Kingdom. She has also performed in France, Germany, the Netherlands, South Africa, and Japan and at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and ...

and since 2010 has toured with Kitty as part of her stand-up comedy shows. She writes original music for and performs songs in Kitty's show. Purrfect sister act , Newcastle Herald 19 April 2012. Retrieved 12 June 2013
/ref> She also has a brother, who is a chef and runs a coffee shop in the snowfields of Japan.

Discography

* ''Bravado'' (1994) * ''Seven Flights Up'' (1996) * ''Light Sleeper'' (1998)

References

External links

Penny @ Last.fm

Penny @ AMO

Club Hoy "Not Like That"
on YouTube]
Official Facebook page
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