Ngaiire
Ngaiire | |
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Newtown Social Club, August 2015 | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Ngaire Laun J Joseph |
| Born | 1984 Lae, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea |
| Origin | Lismore, New South Wales, Australia |
| Genres | |
| Occupation | Singer-songwriter |
| Instrument | Vocals |
| Years active | 2002–present |
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| Website | ngaiire |
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Ngaire Laun Joseph (born 1984, in Lae), known by her stage name Ngaiire (pronounced ny-ree or /naɪəriː/), is a Papua New Guinea-born Australian-based R&B and future soul singer-songwriter. Her musical career commenced in 2003 with an enrollment in a bachelor of Jazz Studies at the Central Queensland University (CQU). In 2004, she competed in the second season of Australian Idol, where she competed as a semi-finalist but did not make it to the final 12 singers. She then worked with Blue King Brown and Paul Mac as a session vocalist before re-focusing on her solo career in 2008.
Ngaiire's debut studio album, Lamentations, was released in July 2013 and her second album, Blastoma, was released in June 2016. Her third, 3, was released in August 2021.
In 2018 APRA AMCOS appointed Ngaiire as an ambassador.