Also produced by Porter, it sold over 500,000 copies. Her first album, The Sound of White, was released in September, and debuted at No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart. Her four-track single "Scar'" was released in July 2004 and debuted at No. 1 on the ARIA Charts. She toured Australia, supporting Pete Murray and John Butler Trio. She travelled to the US to work with John Porter, who produced her first EP, The Missy Higgins EP, which was released in November and entered the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Singles Chart Top 50 in August 2004. Higgins was the support act on a 2003 Australian tour by folk rock band The Waifs and rock band george. Such radio exposure attracted the attention of American record labels and, by year's end, an international recording deal with Warner Bros. Watson later disclosed that "Missy's the only time in my career I knew after 90 seconds I really wanted to sign her." The backpacking trip had been planned with a friend for years and the pair spent most of 2002 in Europe while Higgins was travelling, "All for Believing" started to receive airplay on Los Angeles radio station KCRW. Higgins' manager is Eleven's John Watson, who also managed rock band Silverchair. She signed with Eleven, partly because they agreed that she would not be "made into a pop star" and partly because they were happy for her to take time off for a backpacking holiday. Two record companies showed an interest in Higgins- Sony and Eleven. The song won the competition and was added to the station's play list. In 2001, Missy's sister Nicola entered "All for Believing" on her behalf in Unearthed, radio station Triple J's competition for unsigned artists. She wrote more songs and worked with the Kool Skools project, which enables students to record music. She approached a Melbourne record company and was told that they wanted more than one song. The assignment earned an A and she performed her song in front of classmates. Īt 15, while attending Geelong Grammar's Timbertop, she wrote "All for Believing" for a school music assignment, completing it just hours before the deadline. Introverted by nature, Higgins found that piano practice helped her cope with living at boarding school. At Geelong, Higgins took up the piano again, this time playing jazz and performing with her brother David's group on weekends. Hoping for more freedom, she urged her parents to send her to Geelong Grammar School, an independent boarding school that her siblings attended. Bored with practice, she gave up playing piano at that time. Higgins learned to play classical piano from age six, following in the footsteps of Christopher and David, but realised she wanted to be a singer at about 12, when she appeared in an Armadale Primary School production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Her sister, Nicola, is seven years older and her brother, David, six years older. Higgins was born in Melbourne, to Christopher Higgins, an English-Australian general practitioner, and Margaret (née Morrison), an Australian childcare centre operator. 1.6 2015–present: Solastalgia, The Special Ones and Total Control.In 2010 she made her acting debut in the feature film Bran Nue Dae and also performed on its soundtrack. Higgins' fourth studio album, OZ, was released in September 2014 and consists of cover versions of Australian composers, as well as a book of related essays.Īlongside her music career, Higgins pursues interests in animal rights and the environment, endeavouring to make her tours carbon neutral. As of August 2014, Higgins' first three studio albums had sold over one million units. Her third album, The Ol' Razzle Dazzle, was released in Australia in June 2012 (July 2012 in the US). In 2005, she was nominated for seven more awards and won five. Higgins was nominated for five ARIA Music Awards in 2004 and won 'Best Pop Release' for "Scar".
Her Australian number-one albums are The Sound of White (2004), On a Clear Night (2007) and The Ol' Razzle Dazzle (2012), and her singles include " Scar", " Steer" and " Where I Stood". Melissa Morrison Higgins (born 19 August 1983), known professionally as Missy Higgins, is an Australian singer-songwriter and musician.
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