Penny Flanagan is an Australian singer-songwriter and author.

Career

Music

Penny Flanagan's musical career began in 1989 as one half of the folk-pop duo Club Hoy. The duo released the 1991 album ''Thursday's Fortune'' before Flanagan went solo. The first single from her debut album, ''Bravado'', was "Lap It Up" which hit No. 52 in the

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on drums. She also received significant radio and

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play for her cover of

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's " When You Were Mine" from her EP ''Seven Flights Up'' which was released on her own independent label, Penny Dreadful Records. In 1997, she contributed an offbeat cover of

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" to the soundtrack of the Australian film ''Dust Off The Wings'' and released a music video for the song that aired on

and ''

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''. Her next release, ''Light Sleeper'', was praised by Australian ''

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'' magazine as "a mature and intelligent release from a genuine talent, deserving of wider success." The album was produced by

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of the Church and featured a duet with

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on the track "Into the Sun". After the release of ''Light Sleeper'' she retreated from performing to focus on raising her three children.

Writing

In 1994 Flanagan published ''Changing The Sky'', a children's book. She published the adult novels ''Sing to Me'' (1998) and ''Surviving Hal'' (2018).

Personal life

Her father, John Flanagan, is an Australian author best known for the ''

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'' novel series.Showbiz a family affair for Flanagan , Illawarra Mercury 26 June 2012. Retrieved 13 June 2013
/ref> She is the sister of actress and comedian

Kitty Flanagan Kitty Flanagan (born July 18th 1970) is an Australian comedian, writer and actress. She is known for portraying Helen Tudor-Fisk in the television comedy program '' Fisk'', which she also co-created, co-wrote and co-directed. She spent eight ye ...

and since 2010 has toured with Kitty as part of her stand-up comedy shows. She writes original music for and performs songs in Kitty's show. Purrfect sister act , Newcastle Herald 19 April 2012. Retrieved 12 June 2013
/ref> She also has a brother, who is a chef and runs a coffee shop in the snowfields of Japan.

Discography

Albums

Extended plays

Charting singles

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Flanagan, Penny 1970 births Living people 20th-century Australian novelists Australian children's writers Australian women novelists Australian male singer-songwriters Singers from Sydney 20th-century Australian women writers 21st-century Australian singers 21st-century Australian women singers People educated at Monte Sant'Angelo Mercy College 21st-century Australian women writers 21st-century Australian writers Australian women singer-songwriters 21st-century Australian singer-songwriters