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Biography

Georgi Kay began playing lead guitar for rock group, The Vains, at the age of fourteen. Within a year she also took on the lead vocal duties. By 2009, Kay was playing solo shows and recording some of her original material for release. Kay released her debut EP, ''Strange Things'' in March 2010. In 2010, Kay became the youngest ever winner of the

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Award, winning in 2010 with "Breakfast in Bedlam". In 2011 Kay won another WAM Song of the Year Award for her collaboration "Free" with The Stoops. In May 2011 Kay released her debut album, ''Backwardsforwards''. Kay wrote and featured on the track "In My Mind", released on Axtone Records in January 2012, in collaboration with Australian house music producers Feenixpawl and Ivan Gough. Flo Rida released a remix titled "In My Mind, Part II". The track marks Kay's first appearance on a major label international album. "In My Mind" was chosen by

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Motors for their 2013 US advertising campaign titled "Bringing Down The House" and the launch video made its debut on over 18,000 movie screens during the MTV Video Music Awards on 6 September. In February 2012, Kay played the role of Melissa in the

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'', filmed in Otago, New Zealand. In the penultimate episode, she performs a cover of the song "

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" by Björk, and in the final episode one of her own original songs, "Ipswich". At the

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, " In My Mind" won the ARIA Award for Best Dance Release. At the APRA Music Awards of 2013, "In My Mind" won Dance Work of the Year. In December 2014, Kay wrote, produced and recorded "Head Full of Lies" as the theme music for the opening/closing credits for the three-part Netflix dystopian miniseries ''

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, "Head Full of Lies" was nominated for Best Original Song Composed for the Screen. In December 2015, she released the single "God of a Girl" from her EP ''Origins''. In February 2016 she released the single "More Than This". ''Origins'' was released in February 2016. In 2017, Kay wrote, produced and recorded "Mark VI" in collaboration with Charles Scott IV as the theme music/closing credits for ''

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'', the American science fiction drama film about a street magician in Los Angeles. The film, directed by J. D. Dillard, written by Dillard and Alex Theurer and starring Jacob Latimore, Seychelle Gabriel, Dulé Hill, Storm Reid, Sasheer Zamata and Michael Villar. The film was released on 28 April 2017, by WWE Studios and Blumhouse Tilt. The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $4 million worldwide, against its $250,000 budget. In early 2018, Kay wrote, recorded and produced the track "Lone Wolf" in Los Angeles. In November 2018, the album ''Where I Go to Disappear'' was released.

Discography

Albums

Extended plays

Singles

As lead artist

As featured artist

Awards and nominations

APRA Awards

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, " In My Mind" (Aden Forte, Ivan Gough, Georgi Kay, Joshua Soon) , Dance Work of the Year , , - , "In My Mind (Part 2)" (Tramar Dillard, Aden Forte, Ivan Gough,Georgi Kay, Joshua Soon)
(performed by Flo Rida) , Urban Work of the Year , , - , 2015 , "Head Full of Lies" (Georgi Kay, James Earp) (for Residue) , Best Original Song Composed for the Screen , , -

ARIA Music Awards

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, "In My Mind" by

Ivan Gough Ivan Gough (born 19 May 1969) is an Australian house music producer and DJ. His first release, a remix of Pendulums "I Need You" became an instant club anthem, being played by the likes of Paul Oakenfold and Pete Tong in the United Kingdom. H ...

and Feenixpawl featuring Georgi Kay , ARIA Award for Best Dance Release , , -

WAM Song of the Year

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References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kay, Georgi 1993 births Living people APRA Award winners ARIA Award winners Australian dance musicians Australian pop musicians Australian women guitarists Australian songwriters English emigrants to Australia People from Ascot, Berkshire Musicians from Perth, Western Australia 21st-century Australian singers 21st-century Australian women singers 21st-century guitarists Musicians from Berkshire 21st-century women guitarists