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KATE MILLER-HEIDKE

Kate Miller-Heidke

Kate Miller-Heidke

HOMETOWN: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

INFLUENCES: Joni Mitchell,
Queen,  Regina Spektor

ALBUM: Curiouser, out now

WEBSITE: katemillerheidke.com

ESTABLISHED AS A POP STAR IN HER NATIVE AUSTRALIA since 2007, singer and keyboardist Kate Miller-Heidke is poised to make a similar splash in the u.s. she recorded Curiouser over more than two months in Los Angeles, collaborating with guitarist (and husband) Keir Nuttal and producer Mickey Petralia. Miller-Heidke says the album whose sound she describes as “experimental, hooky and unashamedly pop” was born in a burst of collective inspiration. “We went into this album with a vision,” she recalls. “We mapped out how we wanted it to sound—the aesthetic, the spirit of it.” Curiouser is already a platinum-selling hit in Australia, where it snagged several nominations at the country’s Grammy equivalent, the prestigious ARIA awards. the set’s distinctive moniker came from producer Petralia. “Mickey thought ‘Curiouser’ was a noun, something that made you more curious,” she explains. “that’s what made up my mind about the title. Wouldn’t it be great if people listened to this album and it made them curiouser?”

Website: katemillerheidke.com

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