Julia Stone (born 13 April 1984) is an

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singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She is a sister of

Angus Stone Angus John Stone (born 27 April 1986) is an Australian musician, singer-songwriter and record producer. He is one half of the musical sibling duo Angus & Julia Stone, with whom he has released five studio albums. His debut solo album, ''Smoking ...

, with whom she has collaborated in professional music, and is also a solo musician. Her debut solo album, ''

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'', was released in September 2010. Her second solo album, ''

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'', was released in May 2012, and peaked at No. 11 on the

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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. Stone's older sister is Catherine (born ca. 1982) and her younger brother is

(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.

Career

2005–present: Julia and Angus

After finishing secondary school and while on a holiday with her brother in

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, Stone was impressed by his musical talent. " nguswas writing amazing songs ... ehad shown me how to play guitar in

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, and those songs had gotten me through that year." Subsequently, Stone started writing her own songs. By 2005 Stone was playing at

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s; sometimes Angus performed backing vocals – at their first such gig, at the Coogee Bay Hotel, they performed "Tears". After playing split sets with each singing backing vocals to the other's material, in 2006, they started a duo,

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. In March that year the pair recorded their debut

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, ''

Chocolates and Cigarettes ''Chocolates and Cigarettes'' is the first EP by Australian singer-songwriter duo Angus and Julia Stone. "Mango Tree" and "Babylon" were used in the American television dramas ''Life'' and ''Army Wives'', respectively. Giorgio Armani also sa ...

'', which was released in August. Since then the group has released five EPs, a compilation album and four studio albums. AngusAndJuliaStone

Angus & Julia Stone's second album, ''

Down the Way ''Down the Way'' is the second studio album by Australian singer-songwriter duo Angus & Julia Stone. It was released on 12 March 2010 in Australia through EMI Music Australia and debuted at number 1 on the ARIA Charts. The physical CD release ( ...

'' (March 2010), debuted at number one on the ARIA Albums Chart and was certified 3× platinum in 2011. It was the highest-selling album by an Australian artist for 2010. At the

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the duo won ARIA Album of the Year for ''Down the Way'' and ARIA Single of the Year for "

Big Jet Plane "Big Jet Plane" is a song written by Australian singer and songwriter Angus Stone, originally recorded under the stage name "Lady of the Sunshine" for his 2009 album '' Smoking Gun''. It was then re-recorded the following year by Stone and his ...

". The track "Big Jet Plane" was voted number one in the Triple J Hottest 100 in 2011 by the station's listeners.

2010–present: Solo career

Despite reaching critical acclaim as a duo, Stone had initially embarked on her musical career to become a solo musician. In September 2010, after five years of recording and touring with the duo, Stone released her debut solo album, ''

'', which charted on the

into the top 100. 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". In June 2011, she sang backing vocals on "Do You Realize" for

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and

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at a sunrise concert at the

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. In August that year Stone supported her collaborator,

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, at shows in

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and

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. On 25 May 2012, Stone released her second solo album, ''

'', simultaneously around the world, which debuted at No. 11 on the ARIA Albums Chart. Stone described writing the songs and temporarily parting with Angus: " 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. "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,

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and

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. Originally released in 2010, Julia's

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of "You're the One That I Want" has been featured on UK and Irish TV channel

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's identification ad. The track entered the UK

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charts after airing on the commercial. In 2015, Stone was featured on

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' single " Regardless", which peaked at number 48 in Australia in August. 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. In July 2020, it was confirmed that Stone had signed with BMG Australia and on 31 October 2020, Stone announced that her third studio album, '' Sixty Summers'', would be released on 30 April 2021. In November 2021, Stone announced the release of a Christmas album titled ''Everything Is Christmas''. 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

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's Like a Version of

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's single "

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" with Dean Brady. The song reached number 64 on the Triple J Hottest 100 2023.

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

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and

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's book of the same title.

Discography

* ''

'' (2010) * ''

'' (2012) * '' Sixty Summers'' (2021) * ''Everything Is Christmas'' (2021)

Awards and nominations

APRA Awards

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2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

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2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

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2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

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2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

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ARIA Music Awards

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is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of

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2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

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EG Awards / Music Victoria Awards

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References

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