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Sarah Blasko
Biography
Australian Sarah Blasko arrived in the U.S. in 2005 with a pedigree that could not be ignored: trailing a list of ARIA Award nominations in the categories of Best Album, Best Female Artist, Best Breakthrough Artist, and Best Pop Release, she also distinguished herself -- and perked the ears of rock skeptics -- by being tagged somewhere along her cross-continental journey with the moniker Girliohead. The comparisons are not unfounded. Like Radiohead and the countless lovelorn, world-weary, too-smart-for-their-own-good British piano pounders that the band spawned, Blasko is an appealing wallower. Her ethereal, at times Fiona Apple-like voice rides the gentle arrangements on her debut full-length, The Overture & the Underscore, taking care never to redirect them, and her lyrics evoke an atmospheric grace that burrows into the mind's dark recesses. Blasko's head space is the kind that's allergic to daylight.

It has been reported that Blasko sung her first songs in church alongside her tone-deaf mother and an 80-year-old soprano, but the influences that come across more readily in her music derive from the '80s radio and television she heard as a child -- Prince, David Bowie, and Eurythmics.
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