| Name |
Paul Dempsey |
| Height |
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| Naionality |
Australian |
| Date of Birth |
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| Place of Birth |
Melbourne, Australia |
| Famous for |
Singing |
Paul Dempsey is an Australian musician, best known as the lead singer, guitarist and principal songwriter of Australian rock group Something for Kate. He has released a solo album and has also produced and co-written albums for other artists.
Dempsey formed Something for Kate six months after leaving high school in 1994 with school friend, drummer Clint Hyndman. They recruited bass player Julian Carroll after advertising in a record store, played two shows and released a demo tape before being signed to Sony subsidiary label Murmur Records by A&R representative Chris Dunn. All members were 19 years old.
Dempsey wrote all songs and lyrics, and after releasing two EPs, the band went to New Zealand to record their first album, Elsewhere for Eight Minutes. The second Something for Kate album, Beautiful Sharks (1999), earned a Music Critics' Award for Best Australian Album and Best Australian Live Band and two ARIA nominations. It gained critical acclaim for Dempsey's insightful lyrics and unique and understated observations on science, physics, astronomy and a general questioning nature.
Echolalia, Something for Kate's third album, established Dempsey as one of Australia's most gifted songwriters. He was voted Best Male Vocalist in Rolling Stone and the album was nominated for five ARIA Awards. It debuted at #2 on the ARIA Charts and has gone on to sell double platinum, or more than 140,000 copies.
Dempsey began suffering writer's block and depression and toured the U.S. and Europe with the band while he tried to write lyrics for the band's fourth album. It was not until 2003 that The Official Fiction was released. Debuting at #1, it displayed Dempsey's lyrical talent and maturity and a sense of anger at the political events of the time.
In 2005, after another bout of writer's block and debilitating depression, Dempsey and the band went to Los Angeles to work on their fifth album, Desert Lights. The album was released in 2006 and again debuted at #1.
