Luke Steele (singer)

Infobox musical artist
Name = Luke Steele

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Background = solo_singer
Birth_name = Luke Steele
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Born = February 25
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Instrument = guitar
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Genre = Rock Music
Occupation = musician, singer, songwriter, guitarist
Years_active = 1998-present
Label = Capitol
Virgin
Astralwerks
EMI
Associated_acts = The Sleepy Jackson
Empire of the Sun
Hathaway/Palmer
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Luke Steele, born in Perth, Western Australia, is the current vocalist and songwriter of alternative rock band, The Sleepy Jackson. Steele is one member of a musical family - Steele's sister, Katy, is the vocalist of Perth indie rock band Little Birdy and Steele's brother Jake is a member of another Perth band, Injured Ninja. [cite news|publisher="The Age"|title=Reach for the stars |url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/music/reach-for-the-stars/2006/06/22/1150845291460.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2 |accessdate=2008-09-20|date=2006-06-23] cite news|publisher="The Sunday Times (Western Australia)"|title=Steele moving on |url=http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,23212952-5005381,00.html |accessdate=2008-09-20|date=2008-02-13]

Steele cites his musical influences as including Elliott Smith, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Brian Wilson, Carole King, James Taylor, The Four Freshmen and Cole Porter.cite news|author=Jay Hanna|publisher="The Sunday Times (Western Australia)"|title=Steele moving on |url=http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,21353085-5005381,00.html |accessdate=2008-09-20|date=2007-03-10]

Collaborations

While in New York in 2006, Steele contributed a track, "I'm Moving On", to Yoko Ono's "Yes, I'm a Witch" album.cite news|author=Jay Hanna|publisher="The Sunday Times (Western Australia)"|title=Steele moving on |url=http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,21353085-5005381,00.html |accessdate=2008-09-20|date=2007-03-10]

Steele's father, Rick, is also a musician and father and son collaborated on an album released in February, 2008, titled "Through My Eyes".cite news|publisher="The Sunday Times (Western Australia)"|title=Steele moving on |url=http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,23212952-5005381,00.html |accessdate=2008-09-20|date=2008-02-13]

In 2008, Steele and Pnau's Nick Littlemore collaborated on a side project, Empire of the Sun, and released one single - "Walking on a Dream" - as a prelude to the similarly titled album, "Walking on a Dream". [cite news|author=Simon Collins|publisher="The West Australian"|title=Smile...it’s Pnau |url=http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=5&ContentID=96008 |accessdate=2008-09-20|date=2008-09-04] Pnau feature Steele in their track 'With You Forever', from their third album 'PNAU'. Steele also spent time in 2008 recording with Daniel Johns of Silverchair. Although no plans have been made to release the recordings as yet, it has been revealed the collaboration has been named 'Hathaway/Palmer'. [http://chairpage.com/news *Reported by Silverchair official website] [cite news|author=Jonathon Moran|publisher="The Daily Telegraph (Australia)"|title=Single Daniel Johns finds himself a duo |url=http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23864476-5009160,00.html |accessdate=2008-09-20|date=2008-06-15]

In August 2008 Steele embarked on his first national solo tour, performing (in an intimate acoustic guitar mode) songs from both The Sleepy Jackson albums "Lovers" and "Personality - One Was a Spider, One Was a Bird", as well as a selection of new songs from his current projects. [cite web|url=http://elevenmagazine.com.au/2008/07/08/luke-steele-names-solo-dates/ |title=Luke Steele names solo dates|publisher=Eleven magazine|last=Kachor|first=Kate|date=2008-07-08|accessdate=2008-10-09]

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