Overview
Drawing on inspiration from love, life and her family, two time Golden Guitar Winner Dianna Corcoran is one of Australian country music's most distinguished vocal and songwriting talents.
Dianna released her first album - "Little Bit Crazy" - in 2003 and won the Australian Country Music Golden Guitar for New Talent of the Year the following year. After numerous writing and recording stints in the US, Dianna's debut was followed by her brilliant second release - "Then There's Me". This album earned Dianna her second Golden Guitar - the prestigious title of Female Artist of the Year at the 2008 Australian Country Music awards.
With her "down to earth, country girl" approach to performance, two multi-award winning albums under her belt and over 400 awards throughout her career, Dianna just released her fresh, upbeat, third album “Keep Breathing” on january 16th to rave reviews . "Keep Breathing" was produced by two time Grammy Award winner Rebecca Lynn Howard & Elisha Hoffman
Brief Outline of Achievements – Point form
•Born and raised in Parkes NSW, Dianna Corcoran is a self-taught singer / songwriter.
•Dianna spent her childhood and teens competing in talent quests and collected over 400 awards for her musical talent until she left home at the age of 19.
•2003 – Dianna chose to take a professional leap and recorded her self-financed debut album, “Little Bit Crazy”.
•October 2003 – awarded Australian Independent Rising Star of the Year Award.
•October 2003 – signed to Compass Bros Records / Sony BMG after label manager Graham Thompson hears her on ABC Radio’s Saturday Night Country.
•December 2003 – Receives two nominations in the Country Music Awards of Australia 2004. New Talent of the Year and Female Vocalist of the Year.
•January 2004 – awarded the Golden Guitar for New Talent of the Year at the Australian Country Music Awards.
•February 2004 – selected to receive a $10,000 grant at the Australian Performing Rights Association (APRA) Professional Development Awards. This allowed Dianna to travel to Nashville for a two month stint of writing and recording that would become the backbone of her eagerly awaited second album - “Then There’s Me”.
•2006 – recorded “Then There’s Me” in Nashville, USA.
•January 2007 – “Then There’s Me” was released, going straight to #8 on the ARIA charts for sales in its first week.
•February 2007 – “Then There’s Me” hit #1 on FOXTEL’s Country Music Channel.
•March 2007 – travelled to the Solomon Islands to perform for the troops.
•June 2007 – travelled to the Middle East to perform for the troops.
• December 2007 – received three nominations in the 2008 Country Music Awards - Album of the Year and Female Artist of the Year for “Then There’s Me”, as well as a third nomination for Vocal Collaboration of the Year with Karl Broadie (“Count Your Blessings”).
•January 2008 – awarded Australian Country Music’s Female Artist of the Year.
•May 2008 – hit the road for her “Thank You Australia” road trip. This was a media run throughout rural and metro areas all around the country to thank radio stations, retailers, print media and fans that helped her achieve the Female Artist of the Year title.
• August 2008 – takes part in the ever-popular “Broad” Tour with Deborah Conway, launched at the Sydney Opera House.
• June 2009 – returned to Nashville to record her third release, an album produced by two time Grammy Award Winner Rebecca Lynn Howard & Elisha Hoffman.
• December 2009 - released the first single “Thank You For Cheating On Me” from her incredible new album “Keep Breathing”.
• January 2010 - Dianna officially releases "Keep Breathing". A release that met with rave reviews and an outstanding Launch Concert at the Tamworth Country Music Festival.
• February 2010 - Due to popular demand, Dianna relaunches “Keep breathing” at an encore acoustic concert to a full house at the Slide Bar in Sydney.
• March 2010 - The first single from “Keep breathing”, “Thank You For Cheating On Me” , hits #1 on the Australian “Country Tracks Top 30”
• April 2010 - “Thank You For Cheating on Me” maintains it’s top position on the Country Charts for FIVE consecutive weeks.
• June 2010 - Dianna releases the second single from “Keep Breathing”, “Wrong Girl”
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