Julia Stone
{{short description|Australian singer-songwriter}}
{{Use Australian English|date=December 2012}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Julia Stone
| image = Angus & Julia Stone @ Sir Stewart Bovell Park (1 1 2011) (5356668456).jpg
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| caption = Stone performing at the 2011 Southbound Festival in Busselton
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1984|4|13|df=y}}
| birth_place = Sydney, Australia
| occupation = Musician, singer-songwriter
| instrument = Vocals, guitar, mandolin, piano, trumpet
| years_active = 2005–present
| label = EMI, Flock/PIAS, Nettwerk, Discograph
| associated_acts = Angus & Julia Stone, Angus Stone
| website = {{URL|juliastonemusic.com}}
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Julia Stone (born 13 April 1984) is an Australian folk singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She is the sister of Angus Stone, with whom she has collaborated in professional music, and is also a solo musician. Her debut solo album, The Memory Machine, was released in September 2010. Her second solo album, By the Horns, was released in May 2012, and peaked at No. 11 on the ARIA Albums Chart.
Early life
Julia Stone was born on 13 April 1984 and grew up in Sydney. Her parents, Kim and John Stone, were both folk musicians.{{cite news | last = Murfett | first = Andrew | date = 3 September 2010 | title = Stone Hearts Renewed | url = http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/music/stone-hearts-renewed-20100902-14r1y.html | work = The Age | access-date = 12 December 2012 }} Stone's older sister is Catherine (born ca. 1982) and her younger brother is Angus Stone (born 27 April 1986). Stone attended Newport Primary School and Barrenjoey High School. At primary school she joined the school band with her father teaching and her siblings accompanying. At family gatherings when the children performed, Stone played trumpet, Catherine saxophone and Angus trombone with Kim singing and John on keyboard or guitar.{{cite news | last = Murfett | first = Andrew | title = Angus & Julia Stone | url = http://www.theage.com.au/news/gig-previews--reviews/angus--julia-stone/2007/10/16/1192300745813.html?page=fullpage | work = The Age | date = 16 October 2007 | access-date = 9 December 2012 }}
Career
=2005–present: Julia and Angus=
{{main|Angus & Julia Stone}}
After finishing secondary school and while on a holiday with her brother in South America, Stone was impressed by his musical talent. "[Angus] was writing amazing songs ... [he] had shown me how to play guitar in Bolivia, and those songs had gotten me through that year." Subsequently, Stone started writing her own songs. By 2005 Stone was playing at open mics; sometimes Angus performed backing vocals – at their first such gig, at the Coogee Bay Hotel, they performed "Tears".{{cite news | url = http://jasontreuen.wordpress.com/2007/10/24/frankie-first-and-last-times-with-julia-stone/ | title = First and Last Times with Julia Stone | work = frankie | publisher = Morrison Media | last = Treuen | first = Jason | date = 24 October 2007 | access-date = 10 December 2012 }} After playing split sets with each singing backing vocals to the other's material, in 2006, they started a duo, Angus & Julia Stone. In March that year the pair recorded their debut extended play, Chocolates and Cigarettes, which was released in August. Since then the group has released five EPs, a compilation album and four studio albums.
File:AngusAndJuliaStone.jpg (Julia at left) performing at Falls Festival, Marion Bay, Tasmania, December 2007]]
Angus & Julia Stone's second album, Down the Way (March 2010), debuted at number one on the ARIA Albums Chart and was certified 3× platinum in 2011.{{cite web|url=http://www.australian-charts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Julia+Stone |title=Discography Julia Stone |publisher=Australian Charts Portal. Hung Medien (Steffen Hung) |last=Hung |first=Steffen |access-date=13 December 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140802003844/http://australian-charts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Julia%2BStone |archive-date=2 August 2014 }}{{Cite certification |region=Australia |type=album |certyear=2011 |access-date=13 December 2012 }} It was the highest-selling album by an Australian artist for 2010.{{cite web | url = http://www.aria.com.au/pages/aria-charts-end-of-year-charts-top-100-albums-2010.htm | title = ARIA Charts – End of Year Charts – Top 100 Albums 2010 | publisher = Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) | access-date = 10 December 2012 }}{{cite web|title=Angus & Julia Stone |url=http://www.discograph.com/angusandjuliastone/ |website=discograph.com |publisher=Discograph |access-date=1 May 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120427160241/http://www.discograph.com/angusandjuliastone/ |archive-date=27 April 2012 }} At the ARIA Music Awards of 2010 the duo won ARIA Album of the Year for Down the Way and ARIA Single of the Year for "Big Jet Plane".{{Cite web|url=http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history-by-year.php?year=2010 |title=ARIA Awards 2010 : History: Winners by Year 2010: 24th Annual ARIA Awards |publisher=Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) |access-date=9 November 2010 }}{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} The track "Big Jet Plane" was voted number one in the Triple J Hottest 100 in 2011 by the station's listeners.{{cite web | title = Hottest 100 2010 | date = 26 January 2011 | url = http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100/10/countdown/cd_01.htm | publisher =Triple J. Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) }}
=2010–present: Solo career=
Despite reaching critical acclaim as a duo, Stone had initially embarked on her musical career to become a solo musician.{{cite news | title = Siblings Angus and Julia Stone reveal their solo singles | url = http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/music/siblings-angus-and-julia-stone-reveal-solo-singles-broken-brights-and-lets-forget-all-the-things-that-we-say/story-e6frfn09-1226301123565 | work = The Daily Telegraph | date = 16 March 2012 | access-date = 13 December 2012 }} In September 2010, after five years of recording and touring with the duo, Stone released her debut solo album, The Memory Machine, which charted on the ARIA Albums Chart into the top 100.{{cite news | url = http://www.aria.com.au/Issue1073.pdf | archive-url = https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20101010130000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23790/20101011-0000/Issue1073.pdf | url-status = dead | archive-date = 2010-10-10 | title = ARIA Report – 20th September 2010 | publisher = Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) | issue = 1073 | date = 20 September 2010 | access-date = 13 December 2012}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} It was well received by fans and critics. Poppy Reid of The Music Network found that "Julia uses clever vintage horror film posters painted by UK artist Caroline Pedler. The posters depict themes from each song; all of them of course, starring Julia as herself".{{cite web |last = Reid|first = Poppy|title = Album Review: Julia Stone, The Memory Machine|url = http://www.themusicnetwork.com/reviews/album/2010/09/21/album-review-julia-stone-the-memory-machine/|website = The Music Network |date = 21 September 2010|access-date = 13 December 2012}}
In June 2011, she sang backing vocals on "Do You Realize" for The Flaming Lips and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros at a sunrise concert at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.{{cite web|title=In Case You Missed It: Julia Stone with Flaming Lips and Edward Sharpe in LA |url=http://www.nettwerk.com/news/case-you-missed-it-julia-stone-flaming-lips-and-edward-sharpe-la |publisher=Nettwerk |date=3 August 2012 |access-date=13 December 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110805165033/http://www.nettwerk.com/news/case-you-missed-it-julia-stone-flaming-lips-and-edward-sharpe-la |archive-date=5 August 2011 }} In August that year Stone supported her collaborator, Doveman, at shows in California and New York.{{cite news | last = Payne | first = Jenny | title = Doveman | url = http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2012/04/13/doveman | work = Columbia Spectator | date = 13 April 2012 | access-date = 13 December 2012 }}
On 25 May 2012, Stone released her second solo album, By the Horns, simultaneously around the world, which debuted at No. 11 on the ARIA Albums Chart. Stone described writing the songs and temporarily parting with Angus: "[w]e had already been working on a new record together but it didn’t feel right ... I was thinking 'I'll make it now and we'll figure out what happens when it happens{{'"}}.{{cite web |title=New Noise: Julia Stone|url=http://www.wonderlandmagazine.com/2012/04/new-noise-julia-stone/ |work = Wonderland Magazine|date=16 April 2012 }} "Then Angus and I were talking on the phone and he'd been working on more stuff on his own as well and we both just agreed – we were both in the same place, ready to put together a collection of our own songs". She worked on the album in California, France, Australia and India.{{cite web|last=Chan |first=Su-Yin |title=The Story |url=http://juliastonemusic.com/story.html |publisher=Original Matters |access-date=1 May 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120501185233/http://juliastonemusic.com/story.html |archive-date=1 May 2012 }}
Originally released in 2010, Julia's cover version of "You're the One That I Want" has been featured on UK and Irish TV channel Sky's identification ad. The track entered the UK iTunes charts after airing on the commercial.{{cite web|title = Julia Stone – You're The One That I Want|url = http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/music/popmusic/single/Julia+Stone-239357.html|access-date = 17 May 2012|date = 15 May 2012|website = femalefirst.co.uk}}
In 2015, Stone was featured on Jarryd James' single "Regardless", which peaked at number 48 in Australia in August.{{Cite web|title = Jarryd James & Julia Stone Collab on Lush New Single 'Regardless'|url = http://musicfeeds.com.au/news/jarryd-james-julia-stone-collab-on-lush-new-single-regardless/|website = Music Feeds|access-date = 9 January 2016|date = 5 August 2015|first = Tom|last = Williams}}
In February 2020, Stone released a cover version of "Beds Are Burning". The song is the lead single from the collaborative album Songs for Australia, released on 5 March 2020.{{cite web|url=https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/news/latest-news/julia-stone-announces-collab-lp-with-cover-midnight-oils-beds-are-burning|title=Julia Stone announces collaborative album with cover of Midnight Oil's "Beds Are Burning" |website=The Line of the Best Fit|date=17 February 2020|access-date=25 February 2020}}
In July 2020, it was confirmed that Stone had signed with BMG Australia{{cite web|url=http://www.noise11.com/news/julia-stone-signs-with-bmg-20200714|title=Julia Stone Signs With BMG |website=noise11|date=14 July 2020|access-date=18 July 2020}} and on 31 October 2020, Stone announced that her third studio album, Sixty Summers, would be released on 30 April 2021.{{cite web|url=https://music.apple.com/au/album/sixty-summers/1534041507|title=Sixty Summers by Julia Stone|website=Apple Music|access-date=16 April 2021|archive-date=23 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201223145023/https://music.apple.com/au/album/sixty-summers/1534041507|url-status=dead}} In November 2021, Stone announced the release of a Christmas album titled Everything Is Christmas.{{cite web|url=https://musicfeeds.com.au/news/julia-stone-is-releasing-a-christmas-album-next-month/|title=Julia Stone Is Releasing a Christmas Album Next Month|date=22 November 2021|access-date=24 November 2021}} In an accompanying statement, Stone said "Christmas music has always been such a beautiful and nostalgic part of my life. This is a record I've always wanted to make. It has been in me for so long."
In March 2023, Stone featured on Peking Duk's Like a Version of Crowded House's single "Fall At Your Feet" with Dean Brady. The song reached number 64 on the Triple J Hottest 100 2023.{{Cite web |date=2023-03-09 |title=Peking Duk cover Crowded House 'Fall At Your Feet' for Like A Version |url=https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/like-a-version/peking-duk-cover-crowded-house-fall-at-your-feet-for-like-a-vers/102058572 |access-date=2024-03-13 |website=triple j |language=en-AU}}
Activism
In September 2012, she featured in a campaign, 30 Songs / 30 Days, to support Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, a multi-platform media project inspired by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's book of the same title.{{cite web | url = http://www.halftheskymovement.org/blog/entry/30-songs-30-days-for-half-the-sky1 | title = 30 Songs / 30 Days for Half the Sky | website = Half the Sky Movement | date = 30 August 2012 | publisher = Maro Chermayeff | access-date = 13 December 2012 | url-status = usurped | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121014103757/http://www.halftheskymovement.org/blog/entry/30-songs-30-days-for-half-the-sky1 | archive-date = 14 October 2012 | df = dmy-all }}
Discography
{{main|Julia Stone discography}}
- The Memory Machine (2010)
- By the Horns (2012)
- Sixty Summers (2021)
- Everything Is Christmas (2021)
Awards and nominations
=APRA Awards=
The APRA Awards are presented annually from 1982 by the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA), "honouring composers and songwriters".{{cite web|url=http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/APRAAwards/MusicAwards.aspx |title=APRA Music Awards 2012 |publisher=Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) | Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS) |access-date=20 December 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140625051905/http://apra-amcos.com.au/apraawards/musicawards.aspx |archive-date=25 June 2014 }}
{{awards table}}
|-
|rowspan="2" | 2011 || Angus & Julia Stone (with Angus Stone) || Songwriter of the Year{{cite web | title = Winners for the 2011 APRA Music Awards Announced | url = http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/news/allnews/Winnersforthe2011APRAMusicAwardsannounced.aspx | publisher=Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) | Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS) | access-date = 20 December 2012 }} || {{won}}
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| "Big Jet Plane" (with Angus Stone) || Song of the Year || {{won}}
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|rowspan="3" |2015 || "Get Home" (with Angus Stone) || Blues & Roots Work of the Year{{cite web | url = http://apraamcos.com.au/awards/2015-awards/apra-music-awards/blues-and-roots-work-of-the-year/ | title = Blues & Roots Work of the Year | publisher = Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) | Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS) | year = 2015 | access-date = 23 March 2016 }} || {{nom}}
|-
|rowspan="2" | "Heart Beats Slow" (with Angus Stone) || Blues & Roots Work of the Year || {{won}}
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| Song of the Year{{cite web|url=https://musicfeeds.com.au/news/apras-song-of-the-year-shortlist-is-here/|title=APRA's Shortlist Of The Top Aussie Songs Of 2014 Is Hereng of the Year!|website=Music Feeds|date=15 January 2015|access-date=28 April 2022}} || {{shortlisted}}
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| 2018
| "Snow" (with Angus Stone)
| {{shortlisted}}
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|2019 || "Chateau" (with Angus Stone) || Blues & Roots Work of the Year{{cite web|url=http://www.noise11.com/news/2019-apra-awards-nominees-announced-20190327|title= 2019 APRA Awards nominees announced|publisher=noise11|date= 27 March 2019|access-date=29 March 2019}} || {{won}}
|-
{{end}}
=ARIA Music Awards=
The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music.
{{awards table}}
! {{Abbr|Ref.|Reference}}
|-
| 2008
| Angus Stone, Julia Stone and Josh Groom for "Just a Boy" by Angus and Julia Stone
|rowspan="2" | Best Video
| {{nom}}
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| 2021
| Jessie Hill for Julia Stone – "Dance"
| {{nom}}
| {{cite web |url=https://themusicnetwork.com/2021-aria-awards-nominees/ |title=ARIA Awards nominees revealed: Amy Shark & Genesis Owusu lead the charge |work=The Music Network |date=20 October 2021 |access-date=24 October 2021 |author=Kelly, Vivienne |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211020000045/https://themusicnetwork.com/2021-aria-awards-nominees/ |archive-date=20 October 2021 |url-status=live}}
|-
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=EG Awards / Music Victoria Awards=
The EG Awards (known as Music Victoria Awards since 2013) are an annual awards night celebrating Victorian music. They commenced in 2006.
{{awards table}}
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| 2012{{cite web|url=https://tonedeaf.thebrag.com/awards-2012-nominations-announced-induct-weddings-parties/|title= EG Awards 2012 Announce Nominations, Induct Weddings, Parties, Anything|website=Tone Deaf|date=3 October 2012|accessdate=19 August 2020}}{{cite web|url=http://www.noise11.com/news/the-temper-trap-oh-mercy-win-eg-awards-20121121|title=The Temper Trap, Oh Mercy Win EG Awards|website=noise11|date=21 November 2012|accessdate=19 August 2020}}
| Julia Stone
| Best Female
| {{nom}}
|-
{{end}}
References
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