Zoë Badwi (born 4 May 1978) is an Australian singer and songwriter.
[Q & A With Zoe Badwi](_blank)
Crushable. Retrieved 2010-08-28.
Early life
Badwi was born in Germany but later moved to
Melbourne, Victoria
Melbourne ( , ; Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung/ or ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city of the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Victori ...
in Australia, where she was raised.
[In May 201]
refers to Zoe as a "24-year-old". She is half
Irish people, Irish, one-quarter
Egyptian
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** Egyptian culture, a complex and stable culture with thousands of year ...
, and one-quarter
Saudi Arabian. Before her career in music began, Badwi spent time modelling and featured in a series of television commercials including advertisements for
Telstra
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and
Mars Bars.
[Interview: Zoe Badwi](_blank)
Auspop. Retrieved 2010-12-10. She made her acting debut appearing in the Australian drama series ''
Raw FM
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'', which she took part in for eight months. Badwi is a cousin of
Little Mix
Little Mix are an English girl group that formed on the eighth series of ''The X Factor (British TV series), The X Factor.'' They are the first group and the only girl group to win the original UK series. The lineup consisted of Leigh-Anne Pin ...
member
Jade Thirlwall
Jade Amelia Thirlwall (born 26 December 1992) is an English singer. Her music career began at the age of 15, when she auditioned for ''The X Factor (British TV series), The X Factor UK'' on three occasions before rising to prominence as a member ...
.
Career
In 2001, Badwi became a member of the Australian girl group Sirens, replacing the original third member who left to pursue a career in modelling.
[Sirens Biography](_blank)
Band Shop. Retrieved 2010-12-10. They had minor success with the singles "Like Fire, Like Rain" and the cover version of
The Pointer Sisters
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' "
I'm So Excited
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" featuring
Sara-Marie Fedele
Sara-Marie Fedele (born 18 August 1978) is a former Australian television reality show contestant, on '' Big Brother Australia 2001'', who gained fame as being one of the loudest and most flamboyant housemates. She is also a plus-size model.
...
from the first series of ''
Big Brother Australia
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''.
Badwi later left the group to pursue a solo career.
After being discovered by
Grant Smillie
Grant Smillie (born 3 May 1977) is an Australian house music producer and DJ from Melbourne.
Biography
Smillie often plays sets in clubs around Australia.
Smillie and Ivan Gough make up the production outfit TV Rock and toured with the Future ...
, a member of the Australian duo
TV Rock
TV Rock were an Australian dance music duo consisting of Grant Smillie and Ivan Gough.
Biography
TV Rock entered the mainstream in February 2006 with their hit " Flaunt It" featuring Seany B which reached #1 for five weeks, spent 39 weeks ...
at a venue in
Melbourne
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,
Badwi went on to sign with Neon Records and released her debut solo single "
Release Me" in November 2008. The single reached number one on the
ARIA Clubs Chart and received two award nominations for "Best Dance Release" at the
2009 ARIA Music Awards
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 ...
and also "Dance Work of the Year" at the 2010
APRA Awards.
In July 2010, Badwi released her fourth single, "
Freefallin
"Freefallin" is a song performed by Australian singer-songwriter, Zoë Badwi. The dance-pop song was written by Cameron Denny, Amy Pearson and Paul Zala and produced by Denzal Park. ". It reached a peak of number nine on the
ARIA Singles Chart
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and was eventually certified platinum. In September 2010, it was announced that she had signed to US record label,
Atlantic Records
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.
"
Accidents Happen" was released on 24 January 2011, as Badwi's fifth overall single. While filming the music video for the song, a resident in the street where the clip was filmed fired a catapult at Badwi, who was unharmed. It is not known whether her singing was a motive for the attack. The video shoot went on afterward with no incident and no one was apprehended over the matter.
Badwi's sixth single, "Carry Me Home", featuring
Grant Smilie
Grant Smillie (born 3 May 1977) is an Australian house music producer and DJ from Melbourne.
Biography
Smillie often plays sets in clubs around Australia.
Smillie and Ivan Gough make up the production outfit TV Rock and toured with the Future ...
, was released on 3 June 2011. The song failed to impact the ARIA Singles Chart, but managed to peak at number six on the ARIA Club Chart. Badwi's self-titled debut album was released in Australia on 5 August 2011.
Badwi worked on the album with
Static Revenger,
TV Rock
TV Rock were an Australian dance music duo consisting of Grant Smillie and Ivan Gough.
Biography
TV Rock entered the mainstream in February 2006 with their hit " Flaunt It" featuring Seany B which reached #1 for five weeks, spent 39 weeks ...
, Stuart Crichton,
Rogue Traders
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,
[Cameron Adams (22 October 2010]
It's fallin' into place for Zoe
''Herald Sun
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''. Herald and Weekly Times. Retrieved 2010-10-23. and
Amy Pearson.
The following single, "Shoot Me Down" was released on 21 September 2012. The single has only managed to chart on Australia's official Radio Airplay chart at #58
AUM Report. Retrieved 2013-1-13
In 2011, saw the
ABC Television (Australian TV network), ABC Television's new music show ''Stay Tuned'' with Joel Phillips talks to across dance pop singing sensation Zoe Badwi will air on
ABC3
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.
In June 2016, Badwi was the featured artist on three new-released singles.
The Potbelleez
The Potbelleez are a three-member Irish-Australian electro-house and dance music group, which formed in 2003 as a duo by DJs Dave Goode (a.k.a. David Greene) and Jonny Sonic (Jonathon Murphy). In 2005 they were joined by rapper Blue MC (Ma ...
with a cover of "
Horny", Paki and Jaro with "I Must Have Died" and Tenzin with "Love Me Baby".
In 2017, Badwi was the support act for the dates of
Little Mix
Little Mix are an English girl group that formed on the eighth series of ''The X Factor (British TV series), The X Factor.'' They are the first group and the only girl group to win the original UK series. The lineup consisted of Leigh-Anne Pin ...
's Glory Days Tour in Australia and New Zealand.
In 2020, Bawdi performed with Greg Gould on the song "
Crush
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" from Gould's album ''1998''.
Discography
Studio albums
Singles
Notes
Awards and nominations
References
External links
Official SiteFacebook Page
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1986 births
APRA Award winners
Australian dance musicians
Australian women pop singers
Australian house musicians
Australian people of Egyptian descent
Australian people of Irish descent
Australian people of Saudi Arabian descent
German emigrants to Australia
Living people
Singers from Melbourne
21st-century Australian women singers
Australian women singer-songwriters
People educated at Mentone Girls' Grammar School
21st-century Australian singer-songwriters