Charlotte "Charlie" Thorpe or Charlz is an Australian indie pop musician and songwriter. She was one-half of the pop rock duo, Dash and Will, from 2005 to 2011.
Biography
Charlie Thorpe was born in 1990 and grew up in Melbourne. From 1999 she attended Preshil starting at year four, she met her future music collaborator, Josie de Sousa-Reay, and the pair started performing together from the age of twelve. They formed a pop rock duo, Dash and Will in 2005 and they were signed by Barry Palmer Gigantically Small. Thorpe signed to Universal Music Australia at the age of 18 and with Mushroom Publishing as a songwriter. Dash and Will toured supporting visiting artists including two with British indie rockers, the Kooks – first in August–September 2008 and again in January of the following year. The duo's single, "Fighting over Nothing", peaked at No. 19 on the ARIA Hitseekers Chart in November 2008. They supported Justin Bieber on the Australian leg of his My World Tour in May 2011. The duo disbanded late that year. Thorpe has appeared on Australian TV programs, including children show, Saturday Disney and music quiz shows RocKwiz and Spicks and Specks. She hosted four episodes of a music-based show for kids, The Go Show, on the Foxtel channel, Nickelodeon. Since 2011 she has continued as a songwriter, working under the solo alias of Charlz, with other artists and collaborating with producers such as, M-Phazes as well as Deadmau5’s signed artist Attlas, and Australian producer, Sunset Child. Her song covered by German singer, Femme Schmidt, received acclaim in a Twitter post by Coldplay’s Chris Martin. Thorpe was working her first solo record under the artist name, Charlz, due for release in 2020. Thorpe has been known to have successes as a songwriter for film and Television and ad campaigns, having her music used for HBO, NBC, Greys Anatomy, Playstation, VOLVO cars, LEXUS cars, as well as Australian shows Home and Away and Neighbours and Packed to the Rafters. Thorpe had Billboard chart success with her 2017 collaboration with UK producer Maths Time Joy, About Last Night making it to #5 on the Spotify Global charts She was hand picked by US manager of Khalid, Courtney Stewart, to play alongside Australian artist Ruel, at Khalid's 2017 show at Festival Hall.
