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Our Nathan Kaye

One of Australia’s most talented musicians has journeyed to the Northern Hemisphere for a series of concerts in the UK and Ireland, including Barry’s in Grange.
Nathan Kaye has always had a passion for music and people. He’s been singing since before he could speak.
Since then, his charisma and magnetic performance on stage has taken him on tours through Europe, the UK, Turkey and even behind the great wall of China.
He’s also supported a diverse range of artists including major acts such as The Corrs, and has even recorded a number of solo albums, his latest of which is Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There!.
As a young child, Nathan would often invite the local neighbourhood into his basement, put on old Beatles and Elvis Presley records and perform to them.
“Music’s always been a kind of diary for me. I can remember stuff like where I was at age three when I first heard Bob Marley’s ‘Get Up Stand Up’.
At age eight when he visited his mother, she would often take him to protests for aboriginal landrights. There, he witnessed the injustice of police aggression in the climate of Queensland’s conservative racial repression of the 70s and 80s.
To express what he was witnessing, Nathan started penning his first songs at age 11.
“I was given a guitar at 14 by a Spanish guitar player and taught myself Bob Marley, Beatles, U2 & Cat Stevens songs whilst hanging out fishing with friends at the beach.”
At age 16, he moved to Sydney to attend the Newtown High School of Performing Arts. Nathan was introduced to yidaki/didjeridoo in his early teens by his aboriginal step-father, but began playing at age 17 when a Pintjantjarra tribesman gave him his first didge.
Naturally gifted, he got the complex circular breathing technique within ten days of starting. Whilst finishing school he gained recognition performing in prominent Sydney jazz clubs and music venues, and won numerous awards at the age of 18.
Through this time, he continued his activism in various environmental and political issues, including raising funds for action against uranium-mining at Jabaluka in Arnem Land.
Though his success as an actor grew over the years, including parts in major feature films and television dramas such as Chook and Muriel’s Wedding, he decided to focus on his passion for music.
This led him to the vibrant Byron Bay community in 1998 and the following year, his band Dreamseeds was formed, a firm platform for voicing a positive message, as well as his observations about the human condition and frustrations about the world’s environmental and socio-political dilemmas.
There has been a great buzz about the release of his latest album, Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There! which is already receiving good radio airplay around the country.
The song ‘Silence’, which Nathan wrote for his friend that committed suicide is being used as the suicide prevention theme song in Australia.
With a power-driven roots style of guitar playing, soulful vocal delivery, funky didge-playing and insightful, emotive songwriting, Nathan Kaye is unquestionably an artist to hear and experience.
Whilst Nathan refers to his musical approach as “Earth roots and funky-folk”, his performance is uplifting and pumps with funk rhythms and is spiced with reggae, hip-hop and jazz.
His sound is often described as a fresh mix of Bob Marley, Ben Harper, John Butler, early Lenny Kravitz, Cat Stevens and Jack Johnson all thrown in with a world music flavour.

Posted: Sunday, June 5th, 2005 Under: Gossip. | Home |

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