Name	Clare Bowditch
Height
Naionality	Australian
Date of Birth
Place of Birth	Melbourne, Australia
Famous for	Singing

Clare Bowditch is an Australian musician, writer, coach (creativity and creative-business), social commentator and occasional actor from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. She has released five albums, her fifth, The Winter I Chose Happiness was released on 14 September 2012.

In May 2012, Bowditch released the single, "You Make Me Happy", which was featured in the Network Ten television show, Offspring, a series that she also acts in; the song was Bowditch's first "top 40" (placed in the chart representing the 40 highest-selling songs) single in Australia. Bowditch's creative ventures have extended beyond her own musical career and, as of 2012, she is Secretary of Music Victoria; Bowditch is also an APRA and PPCA Ambassador. In 2013, she will be launching a Creative Business Mentorship through her organisation, "Big Hearted Business". Bowditch is also an Ambassador for Smiling Minds and Life's Little Treasures. Bowditch has also occasionally participated in journalism and has written articles for "Harper’s Bazaar", Rolling Stone, ABC's The Drum, and hosts summer radio shows on the ABC. Bowditch began writing songs early and continued writing in private until 1998, when she met John Hedigan, with whom she formed her first band, Red Raku. Marty Brown, today Bowditch's husband, produced their first EP. Bowditch and Brown had their first daughter, Asha, in 2004, around the same time Bowditch received her first recording grant from Art's Victoria's Music for the Future program. Autumn Bone was recorded in the front room of their house in Melbourne, with Libby Chow and Warren Bloomer. The Feeding Set was a name Libby coined as a joke referring to the meals Bowditch cooked for them every Wednesday night after rehearsal.

Having performed on the Melbourne pub circuit since she was seventeen years old, first with Quarter Acre Dream and then with Red Raku (they recorded two albums), Bowditch first came to prominence in 2005 with the release of her second album What Was Left, which received excellent critical reviews, and high rotation airplay on national radio stations such as Triple J, although her success can be largely credited to the strong support of local independent radio stations throughout Australia, who championed her early work. Bowditch and her partner and drummer Marty Brown, have toured extensively in Australia and, later, in Europe since 2003. Much of this touring Bowditch has been accompanied by her band The Feeding Set. On stage, Bowditch is known best for the beauty of her songs but also for her satirical on-stage humour, and unconventional use of everyday objects (tea-pots, bottles, old casiotone) for sound-effects.