Odette (musician)


Georgia Odette Sallybanks, who performs as Odette, is an English-born Australian singer-songwriter and musician. Her debut album, To a Stranger, 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.

Biography

Odette was born in Bath, England in 1997 and grew up in inner western Sydney. Her mother is South African and her father is English-born. She began writing music at approximately eight years old, while attending Haberfield Public School. Odette cited Joanna Newsom, Laura Mvula and her own grandfather as musical influences, while the poets John Keats and Walt Whitman influenced for her lyrics.
In 2017 Odette released her debut single, "Watch Me Read You", a piano ballad incorporating spoken word which she wrote in England in 2015. It peaked at No. 14 on the ARIA Hitseekers Singles Chart.
At the ARIA Music Awards of 2018, Odette was nominated for two awards; Best Adult Contemporary Album and Breakthrough Artist for To a Stranger. 's Luke Saunders called the album "a poetic tapestry of melancholy soul and powerful pop ballads." 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.

Discography

Studio albums

Singles