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Infobox musical artist | name = Troy Cassar-Daley| image = TroyCassar.jpg|350px| caption = Troy Cassar Daley in concert| image_size =| background = solo_singer| alias =| origin = Surry Hills, New South Wales|Surry Hills / Grafton, New South Wales|Grafton | instrument = Guitar , harmonica | genre = Country music | years_active = 1993–present| label = Sony Music | associated_acts =| website = http://www.troycassardaley.com.au/ Troy Cassar-Daley website Troy Cassar-Daley (born 18 May 1969) is a multi-award-winning Australian country music|country musician from New SouthWales , Australia.
He released his first Extended play|EP , Dream Out Loud , in 1994 and was nominated for his first Country Music Awards of Australia|Golden Guitar for Best Male Vocalist the same year. He has won many awards, including the 1995 ARIA Award for Best Country Record, 1996 Best Male Vocal Award at the Country Music Awards in Tamworth, Best Male Vocal at the 2000 CMAA Awards and Song of the Year for "They Don't Make 'Em Like That Anymore" and almost a decade's worth of Deadly Awards. He won the ARIA Music Awards|ARIA Music Award for Best Country Album in ARIA Music Awards of 2006|2006 , and once again won the ARIA for Best Country Album in ARIA Music Awards of 2009|2009 for his album I Love This Place . http://www.troycassardaley.com.au/ Troy Cassar-Daley web site
He has been a regular at the Tamworth Country Music Festival (where he first performed at the age of eleven), The Deadlys and a visitor to Nashville, Tennessee , where he performed in the Australian Country Music Showcase.
Early life and career
Cassar-Daley was born in the Sydney suburb of Surry Hills, New South Wales|Surry Hills to a Malta|Maltese - Australian father and an Indigenous Australians|Aboriginal mother.cite news|url= http://www.abc.net.au/tv/talkingheads/txt/s2554373.htm|title=Troy Cassar-Daley|work=Talking Heads|publisher= Australian Broadcasting Corporation |date=4 May 2009|accessdate=12 July 2011 At a very young age, he moved with his mother to Grafton, New South Wales|Grafton in north-eastern New SouthWales . At eleven, Troy went to the Tamworth Country Music Festival and returned the next year to busk on the streets. http://au.yahoo.com/it-takes-two/couples/bio/troy-cassar-daley/ Troy Cassar-Daley - It Takes Two At 16 he and his band, Little Eagle, were touring the North Coast (New South Wales)|North Coast of New SouthWales and he made the top 10 in Tamworth, New South Wales|Tamworth 's "Star Maker" quest. He won the 1986 "Search for a Star" competition and then toured with Brian Young for seven months in which he began to develop his songwriting skills. After returning home he replaced James Blundell (singer)|James Blundell as leader of country music band The Blue Heeler Band.
Later career
The first single "Dream Out Loud" was released in 1994 by Sony Music and reached number-one on the Australian country music charts. The album was released in January 1995 and Troy won the 1995 ARIA Award for Best Country Record. At the 1996 Country Music Awards, in Tamworth, Troy won Best Male Vocalist. He also made a cameo appearance in the motion picture Race the Sun in which he performed a song in a bar scene.
In June that year Troy was part of the Australian Country Music Showcase in Nashville. The Showcase included Lee Kernaghan , Gina Jeffreys and Tommy Emmanuel . As a result Troy returned to the States to record his new album True Believer (Troy Cassar-Daley album)|True Believer with Steve Dorff.
Troy Cassar-Daley partnered up with Kate Ritchie for the singing competition It Takes Two (Australian television)|It Takes Two aired on Seven Network in 2006. In May 2007 Troy re-appeared on the same show, http://au.yahoo.com/it-takes-two/ It Takes Two official website this time partnered with Krystal Forscutt, http://au.yahoo.com/it-takes-two/couples/bio/krystal-forscutt/ Krystal Forscutt - It Takes Two a former contestant on Network Ten 's Big Brother (Australia)| Big Brother program . The same year, Troy was featured in a The Wiggles|Wiggles music video for the song "Old Dan Tucker".
Cassar-Daley performed the national anthem at the 2003 NRL grand final .
Cassar-Daley with Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson played together at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 14 March 2009 for Sound Relief which was a proposed multi-venue rock music concert in support of relief for the February 2009 Victorian bushfires|Victorian Bushfire Crisis .cite web|url= http://www.premier.vic.gov.au/premier/artists-unite-for-sound-relief-bushfire-benefit.html|title=Artists Unite For 'Sound Relief' Bushfire Benefit - Premier of Victoria, Australia|last=Brumby|first=John|authorlink=John Brumby|publisher=Premier of Victoria|date=2009-02-24|accessdate=2009-02-25cite news|url= http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25099180-661,00.html|title=Coldplay, Kings of Leon to headline bushfire relief concerts|last=Mitchell|first=Geraldine|work= Herald Sun |publisher= The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd |date=2009-02-24|accessdate=2009-02-25Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot The event was held simultaneously with another concert taking place at the Sydney Cricket Ground . All the proceeds from the Melbourne Concert went to the Red Cross Victorian Bushfire Relief Appeal.cite web|url= http://www.soundrelief.com.au/melb/index.php|title=Latest News|publisher=Sound Relief|accessdate=2009-02-25Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot
Personal life
Troy is married to country singer and radio DJ Laurel Edwards with whom he has two children, Clay and Gem.
Awards and nominations
APRA Awards
APRA Awards of 2008|2008 Country Work of the Year APRA Awards|APRA Award win for "Everything's Going to be Alright", performed by Cassar-Daley and co-written with Don Walker (musician)|Don Walker , was presented by Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA).cite web | url = http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/apraawards/musicawards/history/2008Winners.aspx | title = 2008 Winners - APRA Music Awards | publisher = Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) | accessdate = 28 April 2010
APRA Awards of 2010|2010 Country Work of the Year win and Song of the Year nomination for "Big, Big Love", performed and written by Cassar-Daley.cite web | url = http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/apraawards/musicawards/history/2010Winners.aspx | title = 2010 Winners - APRA Music Awards | publisher = Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) | accessdate = 24 June 2010 cite web | url = http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/APRAAwards/MusicAwards/Nominations/SongoftheYear2010.aspx | title = Nominations for Song of the Year - 2010 | publisher = Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) | accessdate = 27 May 2010
Discography
Dream Out Loud (1994) by Sony Music http://www.troycassardaley.com.au/index.php? page=Discography
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