Odette (musician)

Georgia Odette Sallybanks (born 1997), who performs as Odette, is an English-born Australian singer-songwriter and musician. Her debut album, To a Stranger (July 2018), peaked at No. 13 on the ARIA Albums Chart. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2018 it was nominated for Best Adult Contemporary Album and Breakthrough Artist – Release.

Odette
Odette, Brighton, May 2018
Background information
Birth nameGeorgia Odette Sallybanks
Born1997 (age 22–23)
Bath, Somerset, England
OriginSydney, New South Wales, Australia
Websitewww.odettesodyssey.com

Biography

Odette was born in Bath, England in 1997 and grew up in inner western Sydney.[1] Her mother is South African and her father is English-born.[2] She began writing music at approximately eight years old, while attending Haberfield Public School.[3][4] Odette cited Joanna Newsom, Laura Mvula and her own grandfather (a jazz pianist during the war) as musical influences, while the poets John Keats and Walt Whitman influenced for her lyrics.[5]

In 2017 Odette released her debut single, "Watch Me Read You", a piano ballad incorporating spoken word which she wrote in England in 2015.[6] It peaked at No. 14 on the ARIA Hitseekers Singles Chart.[7]

At the ARIA Music Awards of 2018, Odette was nominated for two awards; Best Adult Contemporary Album and Breakthrough Artist for To a Stranger.[8] Happy Mag's Luke Saunders called the album "a poetic tapestry of melancholy soul and powerful pop ballads."[9] Triple J praised Odette's "canny ability to weave melodic meditations that, like her singing, hover in the space between sensuous composition and spoken-word poetry" throughout the album.[10]

Discography

Studio albums
Title Details Peak chart positions
AUS
To a Stranger[11]
  • Released: 6 July 2018
  • Label: Universal Music Australia
 13

Singles
Title Year Peak chart positions Certifications Album
AUS
"Watch Me Read You" 2017 — To a Stranger
"Collide" —
"Take It to the Heart" 2018 —
"Lotus Eaters"[13] —
"A Place That I Don't Know"
(featuring Gretta Ray)[14]		 —
"Lights Out"
(Jerome Blazé remix)[15]		 2019 —
"Feverbreak"
(featuring Hermitude)[16]		 2020 — TBA
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References
  1. "Introducing Odette and her stunning debut single, Watch Me Read You".
  2. "odette". Archived from the original on 25 June 2018. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  3. "Meet Odette: the 20-year-old behind 'Watch Me Read You'". 27 September 2017.
  4. Yates, Rod (7 July 2018). "Odette: 'You can't just sing a song and all your problems go away'". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  5. "Bio | Odette". Home | Odette. Retrieved 4 July 2018.
  6. "Odette's 'Watch Me Read You' is going to be huge - Purple Sneakers". 23 August 2017.
  7. Wallace, Ian (2 October 2017). "Week Commencing ~ 2nd October 2017 ~ Issue #1440" (PDF). The ARIA Report. Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) (1440): 21. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 October 2017. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  8. "2018 ARIA Award Nominees Announced". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). 11 October 2018. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  9. "The 15 Australian female artists changing the game right now". Retrieved 30 October 2019.
  10. "Odette - To A Stranger". triple j. 18 July 2018. Retrieved 30 October 2019.
  11. "To a Stranger". iTunes Australia. Retrieved 30 November 2018.
  12. "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2019 Singles". ARIA. 31 August 2019. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
  13. "Odette - Lotus Eaters". AIRIT. Retrieved 30 November 2018.
  14. "A Place That I Don't Know (feat. Gretta Ray) – Single by Odette on Apple Music". Apple Music AU. 29 November 2018. Retrieved 30 November 2018.
  15. "Lights Out (Jerome Blazé Remix) – Single by Odette on Apple Music". Apple Music AU. 1 March 2019. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
  16. "Feverbreak (feat. Hermitude) – Single by Odette on Apple Music". Apple Music AU. 13 February 2020. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
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