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Brooke Fraser

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With a career commencing at the age of just 18, Brooke Fraser has clocked up a remarkable number of achievements, including over 16 Platinum Album sales discs and over 245,000 album sales in New Zealand alone and 700,000 worldwide, making her one of New Zealand’s most-loved artists of the past decade.

Her 2003 debut album What To Do With Daylight was an eight-times platinum success story in her native New Zealand that earned Brooke her first pair of New Zealand Music Tui Awards and saw her share the stage with artists like David Bowie, opening on his New Zealand tour in 2004.

The title track to her 2006 follow-up album Albertine celebrated her passion for Africa while the songs spread further across the airwaves. Radio stations in Australia and America were in the thrall of Shadowfeet. An Editors Choice at iTunes in the US helped Albertine climb as high as #5 on the charts and the album clocked up five times platinum sales in New Zealand, matching her debut effort’s gold sales in Australia. With the album title track winning New Zealand’s prestigious songwriting award, the APRA Silver Scroll and a further three Tui’s at the NZ Music Awards.

Flags, released in 2010 opened the international floodgates for Brooke with the release of her worldwide smash hit, Something In The Water. The infectiously charming single hit platinum in Germany and New Zealand and Gold in Italy. Also reaching the Top 10 in Austria and Switzerland, Top 20 in Holland and Belgium, and held the top spot on the BBC Radio 2 playlist in the UK as well as being the ninth most played track of 2011 on the German airwaves. Something in the Water propelled Flags to triple platinum album sales in her home country, Gold again in Australia, and also reached #6 in the German top 10 Album charts, peaking at #59 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the USA.

Touring relentlessly across Europe, North America and Australasia, Brooke performed to packed out crowds, sharing not just the hits but her legendary dry wit and warm stage presence, filling the rooms with laughter as she twisted her natural New Zealand vowel sounds around her odd pronouncements in foreign languages.

Four years on from the release of Flags it was Brooke’s musical evolution that was one of the most exciting musical discoveries of 2014, with the release of her fourth studio album Brutal Romantic. Producing a work that sets Fraser’s strong melodies against an altogether different palette than fans may be used to, singles Kings & Queens and Magical Machine brilliantly highlight her talent for thoughtful hooks and charming pop songs.

Written over 18 months, collecting fragments in New York, Los Angeles, Sydney, Stockholm, a garage in Maida Vale and an 18th century barn conversion on the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea, Fraser ultimately landed on the doorstep of co-producer David Kosten (Bat For Lashes, Everything Everything). The duo crafted this album in Kosten’s West London studio through the early months of 2014, venturing to the cavernous Abbey Road to record Brutal Romantic’s epic orchestral moments.

June 2015 saw Brooke complete her touring cycle for the album, having visited North America, Australia, parts of Asia and Europe before finishing up in New Zealand. Receiving rave reviews from the likes of the AU Review who referred to Brooke’s performance as “a super stunning and perfect experience,” with the Seattle Music News also commenting that Brooke, “has so much electronic soul.”

November 2016 saw the release of A Sides, a compilation album that brought together fourteen singles from Brooke’s fourteen-year career, along with a brand new single, Therapy, recorded with Joel Little in Los Angeles. The single later winning Brooke her second New Zealand On Air Radio Airplay Award at the Pacific Music Awards in 2018.

Following the cherished A Sides collection with a deeper delve into Brooke’s catalogue, November 2018 saw the release of B Sides, a special collection of previously unreleased demos, covers and live recordings. Trawling through her archives, these songs combine to give a fresh insight into the artistry that marks her remarkable career. Stretching back to a version of Joni Mitchell’s Woodstock recorded in Auckland in 2004, to the triumphant live recordings from the climax of the Albertine tour before diving into a group of tracks recorded as demos for the follow-up, Flags. A number of songs come from a period Brooke spent living and writing in Sweden in a nomadic time of her life that preceded the recording of Brutal Romantic.

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go-te-tautiamu

Joined: 31/05/07
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Location: Bay of Plenty
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Shes aight
Posted: Sat Jun 9, 2007 8:03 pm
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I like her song um shadow feet Very Happy
 

polystylz

Joined: 28/03/04
Posts: 77
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RE: Nice Video Clip!
Posted: Sat Jan 1, 2005 12:48 am
Is this the new song 'Without you'? I am mad about that song, lol and shes a pretty kool chicksta...luvn hur! Very Happy
 

P.I Fabulous

Joined: 26/12/04
Posts: 20
Location: Auckland
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RE: Nice Video Clip!
Posted: Sat Jan 1, 2005 12:41 am
Ya Brooke is an awsome chick aye i reackon she'll be big.
 

P.I Fabulous

Joined: 26/12/04
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RE: Who saw her at Auckland town hall?
Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2004 3:49 pm
ya i was downstairs and up front she put on a really good performance aye (sorry for posting on such an old topic Mr Green )
 

polystylz

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RE: brooke fraser is the shizzzzzzzzz :D
Posted: Fri Nov 5, 2004 10:30 pm
brooke fraser is cooler than cool....
shes ice!! Laughing
 

scribe_layne_conpsy

Joined: 24/10/03
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Who saw her at Auckland town hall?
Posted: Thu Nov 4, 2004 8:13 pm
Brooke was playing liek the man there aye haha it was awesome!
Was anyone sitting upstairs or could see upstairs?? did ne1 see teh littel girl dancing and doing teh actions to sum songs? saving teh world especially? haha shite that was funny everyone upstairs was copying her haha aww she was so cute! hehe
 

scribe_layne_conpsy

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RE: brooke fraser is the shizzzzzzzzz :D
Posted: Thu Nov 4, 2004 8:11 pm
Shite yea, that girls awesome, did teh mean gig in Auckland... not too fond of that first band that played tho, i guess it was just cos i didnt know them, haha yea man shes cool
 

dragonorchid

Joined: 25/02/03
Posts: 125
Location: Auckland
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RE: brooke fraser is the shizzzzzzzzz :D
Posted: Thu Nov 4, 2004 12:53 am
I totally agree! she is one of the nicest people in person too. I was stoked when i got to talk to her after a gig she did up here in Auckland. She was really friendly and lovely. GO GIRL!! your my hero Very Happy
 

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RE: I need a profile
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 10:30 am
You will find all this information on the internet under Brooke's fan website http://www.brookefraser.tk/
 

foxxygurlee

Joined: 09/10/04
Posts: 4
Location: Southland
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I need a profile
Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 10:11 pm
Hey I'm doing a project at school and decided 2 do it on Brooke Fraser and was wondering if anyone could possibly give me a profile on her. Like age, date of birth, place of birth etc etc. Coz I can't find anything lyk tht on the net. Very Happy
 

marissa

Joined: 20/08/04
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Location: Auckland
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brooke fraser is the woman!
Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2004 10:21 pm
awesome as artist! the koolest song ever is Arithmetic!!!!!!!!!
 

polystylz

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RE: brooke fraser is the shizzzzzzzzz :D
Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 5:53 pm
ohhhh.... Embarassed

shux...fanx!!
 

dixie45

Joined: 21/06/04
Posts: 24
Location: Auckland
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RE: brooke fraser is the shizzzzzzzzz :D
Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 3:56 pm
i am in luv wif her (not liturally) she is a normal chic we luv her go u !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cool Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy Happy Mr Green Mr Green Wink

go polystylz
 

polystylz

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RE: brooke fraser is the shizzzzzzzzz :D
Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 10:36 pm
of couse bro, of course!!! Laughing
 

zorba the greek

Joined: 07/05/04
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Location: Canterbury
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RE: brooke fraser is the shizzzzzzzzz :D
Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 4:03 pm
Embarassed She sure is mate
 

Shade
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Brooke Fraser In Australia
Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2004 11:56 am
19 April - Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne Park, Melbourne

20 April - Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Adelaide

22 April - Belvoir Theatre, Perth
 

polystylz

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brooke fraser is the shizzzzzzzzz :D
Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2004 12:52 am
hey sup!!!!

i gotta hand it 2 her.....brooke fraser is da bomb Very Happy !!!! man she is sooooo the shizz and has the best voice a girl could ever have!!! man im jealous. and 2 top it all off she is like da kindest person in da world and she just reckons shes like any other nz'er and she doesnt consider herself famous. bro, its nice to see some pacific islanders out there in new zealand music. GO ALL DA WAY BROOKE...U RULE DA WORLD!!! Cool
 

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Brooke and Bowie
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2004 8:19 pm
Rugby offspring Brooke Fraser has been confirmed as the support act for David Bowie’s only concert in New Zealand, this weekend at the Westpac Stadium in Wellington.

Marketing Manager Steven Thompson says, "At 20 years old, Brooke is already an incredible talent who writes beyond her years and is poised for a long and stellar career. The fact that she is one of Wellington’s own just puts the icing on what will be a magical event for the city."
 

.x2.

Joined: 27/12/03
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Nice Video Clip!
Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2003 2:19 am
Wow! When i first saw her Vid on T.v i thought i was a US made clip and thought she was from there too!! Nz muzic is so getting up there!
Shot Brooke
 

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