With a string of awards and accolades to his name, including five Golden Guitars, and thirteen studio albums under his belt, Adam Harvey is a bonafide country music star.
Touring his latest album ‘Harvey’s Bar… The Backyard Sessions’ around the country, the three time ARIA nominated musician will be performing at the Tooleybuc Sporting Club on Saturday October 22nd.
Adam has wanted to be a musician for as long as he can remember.
“My dad used to collect old records and I’d sing along to them,” he told The Swan Hill Guardian.
“Johnny Cash was always my favourite, he had such an amazing voice.
“I just fell in love with the stories that country music songs tell; country music paints pictures with songs,” he said.
Growing up in Geelong, Adam used to enter into talent quests all around the countryside.
“Once I started playing guitar, I had a few lessons in high school just to get by,” he said.
He worked at a gold mine in Bendigo before getting his big break in the late 90s.
That big break came when Adam won his first Golden Guitar in 1998 for Best ‘Vocal Collaboration of the Year’ for a duet with Tanya Self for “Drive Away”.
Adam then scored a record deal with a prestigious record label.
Thinking his his career was secure, after his first album failed to sell as many copies as the record company hoped, he was dropped.
“Loosing the record deal taught me that I should take nothing for granted,” he said.
However, things picked back up for Adam and by 2002 he had won two Golden Guitars for ‘Album of the Year’ for Workin’ Overtime and ‘Male Vocalist of the Year’.
Adam is now living with his wife and two teenage children – one loves rap and the other wants to be an opera singer – in Bateau Bay on the Central Coast.
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