Missy Higgins (born Melissa Morrison Higgins 19 August 19832) is an Australian pop singer-songwriter, best known for her albums The Sound of White and On a Clear Night, and the hit singles "Scar", "The Special Two", "Steer" and "Where I Stood". Born in Melbourne to a musical family, Higgins played the piano and sung from an early age. While at boarding school, she wrote a song for a music assignment which was subsequently entered into a national radio competition for unsigned bands. Higgins won the competition and got recording contracts with Eleven and Warner Bros. After taking time off to go backpacking in Europe, she recorded her first album The Sound of White, which was released in 2004. The album, and its first single, "Scar" both went to #1 on the ARIA Charts. "The Special Two" went to #2. Higgins was nominated for five ARIA Music Awards that year and won the award for Best Pop Release for "Scar". In 2005 she was nominated for seven ARIA Awards and won five.
In 2006, she wrote new material for her second album, and following a US tour she recorded On a Clear Night. It was released in April 2007, giving her another #1 single with "Steer" and the ARIA Award for Best Female Artist. Higgins has experienced significant success in Australia with several tours and performances in high-profile events Live Earth and WaveAid. She has toured internationally and lived and worked in the United States. Her song "Where I Stood" has been used in several television shows. Along with her music career, Higgins pursues interests in animal rights and the environment, endeavouring to make all of her tours carbon neutral. In 2007, following press speculation about her sexual orientation, she came out as bisexual. In 2009 she made her acting debut in Australian feature Bran Nue Dae.
Biography
Early life
Missy Higgins was born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1983 to an English-Australian doctor and an Australian childcare centre operator.3 She has an older sister, Nicola and an older brother, David.4 She learned to play classical piano from age six, following in the footsteps of her general practitioner father and her brother and realised she wanted to be a singer at about 12 when she appeared in a school production of Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.5 It was about this time that she gave up playing the piano, bored of being "forced to practise."6 Hoping for more freedom than she had at home, she begged her parents to send her away to Geelong Grammar School, the independent boarding school that her siblings had previously attended. At Geelong she took up the piano again, this time playing jazz. Somewhat introverted at school, she found that practising the piano helped her to cope with the "intensity" of being at boarding school.6 At weekends she performed in her brother's jazz group.7
At 15, she wrote "All for Believing" for a school music assignment, completing it hours before the deadline. The song earned her an A for the assignment, and the chance to perform in front of her classmates.6 She followed the advice of a family friend and went to a Melbourne record company, but they wanted more than the one song she had to offer.6 She wrote more songs and worked with the Kool Skools project which enables students to record music.8 In 2001 Higgins' sister entered "All for Believing" on her behalf into Unearthed, radio station triple J's competition for unsigned bands. The song won the competition and was added to the station's playlist.9 Two record companies showed an interest in Higgins — Sony and Eleven.6 She signed with Eleven, partly because they agreed that she would not be "made into a pop star"10 and partly because they were happy for her to take time to go backpacking.6 The trip had been planned with a friend for years and she spent most of 2002 in Europe.11 While she was travelling, a recording of "All for Believing" started to be played by Los Angeles radio station KCRW.12 This brought attention from US record labels and, by the end of 2002, an international record deal with Warner Bros.13
2003–2005: The Sound of White
Higgins performing at the Apple Store,
San Francisco, United States in 2005
In 2003, Higgins embarked on an Australian tour with folk rock band The Waifs and rock band george.13 She travelled to the US to work with Eleven manager John Watson, recording her first EP Missy Higgins.14
In 2004 Higgins toured Australia, supporting Pete Murray and The John Butler Trio.15 Her second EP Scar was released in August 2004, with the title track, co-written with Kevin Griffin, debuting at #1 on the Australian ARIA Charts.16 Her first album, The Sound of White, was released in September 2004, also going straight to #1.14 Produced in the US by John Porter, it sold over 500,000 copies.17 The album's second single "Ten Days" was co-written with Jay Clifford and documents Higgins' separation from her boyfriend while she was travelling in Europe.18 Released in November, it peaked at #12 on the ARIA Charts.19
September also saw her nominated in five categories at the ARIA Music Awards for "Scar"; Best Female Artist, Single of the Year, Best Pop Release, Breakthrough Artist — Single and Best Video.20 At the awards ceremony on 17 October she received the award for Best Pop Release, beating Delta Goodrem, The Dissociatives, Kylie Minogue and Pete Murray.2122
On 29 January 2005 Higgins performed with other local musicians including Nick Cave and Powderfinger at the WaveAid fundraising concert at the Sydney Cricket Ground.23 They raised AUS$2.3 million for four charities supporting the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.24
In March Higgins performed at the MTV Australia Awards and won the award for Breakthrough Artist of the Year.25 The following month she released her third single, "The Special Two". It was a hit on Australian radio and reached #2 on the ARIA charts.26 "The Special Two" EP was released on an EP which included Higgins' cover of the Skyhooks song, "You Just Like Me Cos I'm Good In Bed", which she recorded for Triple J's 30th anniversary. The song had been the first track played on triple J when it launched (as Double J) in 1975.27 She continued touring in mid-2005 and released her fourth single, "The Sound of White", in August.19
She was nominated for a further seven ARIA Awards for The Sound Of White and in October won Album of the Year, Best Female Artist (for "Scar"), Best Pop Release, Breakthrough Artist — Album Release and Highest Selling Album.28 In late 2005 she teamed up with Australian singer Ben Lee for a national tour.29
2006–present: On a Clear Night
In 2006, Higgins lived alone in Broome, Western Australia for six months writing new material.30 The relaxed lifestyle she found there, and time away from the entertainment industry, helped her to focus on her next album.31 The landscape made a big impression on her and she later said "It was the first place I'd ever felt honestly connected with my country, with the physical land of my country".32 The move inspired her to write the song "Going North". She then toured the United States and South Africa, writing more material on the road.33 In September she based herself in Los Angeles to record her second album, On a Clear Night, with producer Mitchell Froom.34 "Steer", the first single from that album was released on 4 April 2007 and the album followed on 28 April 2007.1931
On 7 July 2007, Higgins participated in the Live Earth concert in Sydney, performing her own set before joining Paul Kelly, Kev Carmody and John Butler on stage for the song "From Little Things Big Things Grow".35 Writing for The Sydney Morning Herald, Emily Dunn said that the song "could have been the event's anthem".36 Dan Lander from Rolling Stone cited it as a highlight, saying that the "whole crowd sung along – all eleven verses."37
In August, Higgins returned to Los Angeles to focus on the US market.38 She spent September and October 2007 touring the US, still relatively unknown there.39 On 26 October, backed by the Sydney Youth Orchestra, she headlined the annual Legs 11 concert, a breast cancer benefit held in The Domain, at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney.40 On 28 October, she attended the 2007 ARIA Music Awards, where she had been nominated for four awards; Best Pop Release, Best Female Artist, Highest Selling Album and Highest Selling Single (for "Steer").20 She performed at the ceremony and won the award for Best Female Artist.41 On 31 October, she was a guest at television music channel MAX's inaugural Concert For the Cure, a private concert for people affected by breast cancer. She sang lead vocals to headline act Powderfinger's "Sunsets" with front man Bernard Fanning and joined in with the encore of "These Days".42 She spent the last two months of 2007 on a national tour of Australia called For One Night Only, taking in Cairns, Sydney and Perth. She was joined on some of the dates by You Am I lead singer Tim Rogers.43
On a Clear Night, was released in the US on 28 February 2008 with a tour in March to coincide with the release. Her stay in Los Angeles, which lasted for the first half of 2008, was designed to promote the use of her music in films and television shows.34 Her first US single "Where I Stood" was particularly successful in this regard and was featured in US series including Grey's Anatomy, One Tree Hill and So You Think You Can Dance.44
During 2008, Higgins supported Ben Folds and the Indigo Girls on their US tours.45 February and March 2009 saw her co-headlining a US tour with Canadian Justin Nozuka.46 On 31 March she released an EP in Australia featuring cover versions of "More Than This" by Roxy Music, "(I'm) In Love Again" by Cy Coleman, "Breakdown" by Tom Petty and "Moses" by Patty Griffin.47
Other projects
In June 2008 Higgins was voted #48 in The 2008 AfterEllen.com Hot 100; a list of the "hottest/most beautiful women" chosen by readers of the lesbian-focused website.48 In April 2009, she made the AfterEllen.com Hot 100 list again, this time at #42.49 Higgins was also voted #16 on the site's 2009 Hottest Out Women list.50 That same year she featured in the top 20 "Sexiest Vegetarians" of Australia in a poll run by PETA.51
Higgins made her acting debut in 2009 film Bran Nue Dae directed by Rachel Perkins. Released in Australia on 14 January 2010, the film is an adaptation of the 1990 musical also called Bran Nue Dae, "Australia's first Aboriginal musical".52 Higgins plays the character of Annie, a hippie. She has said that she has no further plans to pursue an acting career.53
Personal life
Higgins is a vegetarian; She appeared in a 2005 advertising campaign for the animal rights group PETA, promoting the health benefits of not eating meat.54 She has also taken part in an anti-fur campaign for the group.55 She is passionate about environmental issues and is involved with the Sierra Club, a grassroots organisation based in California.55 Closer to home, she has spoken out against the proposed industrialisation of the Kimberley region of Western Australia and donated royalties from her 2009 EP More Than This to the cause.47 In order to make her tours carbon neutral, she purchases green energy to power venues, uses bio-diesel tour buses in the US and purchases carbon offsets.56
Until 2007, Higgins' sexual orientation was the subject of speculation from some journalists due to interpretations of her lyrics and comments made by her in interviews.[A] In a October 2007 interview with Australian lesbian magazine Cherrie, she was asked if she fell under the moniker of "not-so-straight" girls. She replied "Um, yeah, definitely."57 She went on to say "I think sexuality is a fluid thing and it's becoming increasingly more acceptable to admit that you're that way."57 The following month she said on her Myspace blog, "I’ve been in relationships with both men and women so I guess I fall most easily under the category 'Bisexual'."58 She went on to say that she wanted future interviews to focus on her music rather than her sexuality.
In a March 2008 interview with AfterEllen.com, Higgins said that her song "Secret" was written about an ex-girlfriend who was not comfortable going public with their relationship; "When we first started our relationship, she was not comfortable with bringing it out into the open, and I was so head over heels in love with her I kind of wanted to shout it out to the world, so it was just a song about keeping something under the covers and not being comfortable sharing something with the world, keeping it away locked in a little room."59
Higgins is a supporter of Australian mental health charity One in Five, and has been patron of the organisation since 2003.60 She has described her younger self as "a bit of a depressed child" and "introverted",14 and has said that she has experienced "experienced various degrees of depression".61 Prescribed antidepressant medication while in high school, she learned to channel low moods into song writing, calling music her "emotional outlet".462 In a 2006 interview she said that her songs were "coming from more of a happier place".63 While recording her second album in 2006 she discovered a passion for rock climbing, which she calls a "meditative pursuit".64 She says "It's the first thing I've had—other than music—that I'm passionate about."62
Discography
Filmography
Awards
- 2004 ARIA Awards, Best Pop Release for "Scar"
- 2005 MTV Australia Video Music Awards, Breakthrough Artist of the Year
- 2005 APRA Awards, Breakthrough Award for "Scar"
- 2005 APRA Awards, Song of the Year for "Scar"
- 2005 ARIA Awards, Breakthrough Artist — Album for The Sound of White
- 2005 ARIA Awards, Best Pop Release for The Sound of White
- 2005 ARIA Awards, Highest Selling Album for The Sound of White
- 2005 ARIA Awards, Best Female Artist for The Sound of White
- 2005 ARIA Awards, Album of the Year for The Sound of White
- 2007 ARIA Awards, Best Female Artist for On a Clear Night
Notes
- ^ Prior to an October 2007 Cherrie interview in which Higgins acknowledged not being heterosexual, references to her sexual orientation included "There's also plenty of speculation about Higgins' sexuality" (Adams),65 "She seems nonchalant about people speculating on her sexuality" (Sams)64 and "One of the mysteries that people do wonder about ... is her sexuality" (Zuel).10 In a June 2007 interview Higgins commented "I've said a few risque comments in interviews about bisexuality."64 After Higgins' Cherrie interview, Jay Savage said that she had "ended years of speculation about her sexuality".66
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Missy Higgins (2003) · All For Believing (USA) (2005) · The Special Two (2005) · Steer (2007) · Where I Stood (2007) · Peachy (2007) · More Than This (2009)
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If You Tell Me Yours, I'll Tell You Mine (2005) · On a Clear Night Limited CD & DVD Tour Edition (2007)
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| NAME |
Higgins, Missy |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION |
Australian singer-songwriter |
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