Christine+Anu

Christine Anu is one of the most successful indigenous performers and one of Australia’s most popular recording artists. She is a strong public speaker who motivates people of all ages, she has won aria awards and her first studio album stylin up went platinum. She also supports charities like oaces and the Catherine freeman charity. She was born in 1970 in Cairns, Queensland Australia, and as a kid she grew up in the Torres-strait islands where her dad taught her the island songs, which inspired her to become a singer, and they still do. She was trained as a dancer at the national aboriginal and islander skills development association. She got her associates degree in 1992 and toured part of the world, but after about a year she turned to singing and song writing. After being the backup singer for the band rainmakers, her first single was released with song writer Paul Kelly called last train, she then signed with mushroom label and released her borrowed single called my island home which led to the release of her first album stylin up which later went platinum. She made the song island home much more famous by performing it to billions of people all over the world by singing it at the closing ceremony at the Olympics in the year 2000.

Over the next few years she started her acting career whilst raising her child Kuiam, but she soon came back with her song sunshine on a rainy day. Some of the movies and Broadway productions she was in were little shop of horrors in 1997, Moulin rouge in 2001; the matrix reloaded and enter the matrix in 2003 and playschool in 2004

She has won many awards over the last few years, mainly aria awards like best video, breakthrough artist, best indigenous release, album of the year… and many more, her latest one being in 2000 for engineer of the year with her song sunshine on a rainy day and was nominated in 2007 for best children’s album with chrissy’s island family. Christine Anu is a motivational and amazing singer, she is an idol for many and she has lead an amazing life, she has been nominated and won many aria awards and performed to billions at the Olympic games in the year 2000. She is a role modal to not only aboriginal Australians but for all Australians. 