Christie Heart (previously known as Chris Lewis) began performing in 1990 in Darwin, NT, with Irish folk trio Murphy's Law. She returned to Melbourne and in 1993, released her first album Nightingale 1 an album of atmospheric, Celtic style, traditional folk songs and Australian poetry set to music.
In 1993 and in 1994, she won first prize in the Melbourne Irish Festival Song Competition for outstanding vocals and teamed up with guitarists Trevor Shard and Greg Leon to perform around Melbourne, Victoria.
In 1994, with Greg and Trevor and the addition of Andy Baylor on violin and Mark Mebalds on keyboards, Christie recorded a live album which was never released. An EP of songs from the live recordings has been remastered and is available to stream and download online from December 13, 2020.
Moving away from Celtic folk in the mid 1990's, Christie focused on writing original songs of various genres and in 1998 won the Tamworth Country Song Search competition with Red Dirt Road. She released an album of country folk songs From The Heart and the following year, two songs from the album Sugarloaf and Heartbreak On The land were shortlisted in the top five of the of the Tamworth Songwriters Association, professional songwriting competition and a grunge rock version of her song Shane was shortlisted in the UniSong International Song Competition.
In 2004, Christie conceived the idea of writing a novel based on the storylines within 12 of her original songs. In 2012, the book and album Leave The Wake Behind was released.
Recently, Christie met with award winning sound engineer, Andy Stewart themillstudio.com.au/studio to remaster a selection of tracks from across her three albums plus some previously unreleased material to create four Singles - Leave The Wake Behind, I Love You (In Any Language), Ready For The Times To Get Better and Heartbreaks & Shipwrecks. An EP of Live tracks Christie Heart In Celtic Cabaret. And two Albums, A Little Bit Country & Folk and Retro Folk (pictured below). The songs are available to stream and download through major music sites world-wide.
In 1993 and in 1994, she won first prize in the Melbourne Irish Festival Song Competition for outstanding vocals and teamed up with guitarists Trevor Shard and Greg Leon to perform around Melbourne, Victoria.
In 1994, with Greg and Trevor and the addition of Andy Baylor on violin and Mark Mebalds on keyboards, Christie recorded a live album which was never released. An EP of songs from the live recordings has been remastered and is available to stream and download online from December 13, 2020.
Moving away from Celtic folk in the mid 1990's, Christie focused on writing original songs of various genres and in 1998 won the Tamworth Country Song Search competition with Red Dirt Road. She released an album of country folk songs From The Heart and the following year, two songs from the album Sugarloaf and Heartbreak On The land were shortlisted in the top five of the of the Tamworth Songwriters Association, professional songwriting competition and a grunge rock version of her song Shane was shortlisted in the UniSong International Song Competition.
In 2004, Christie conceived the idea of writing a novel based on the storylines within 12 of her original songs. In 2012, the book and album Leave The Wake Behind was released.
Recently, Christie met with award winning sound engineer, Andy Stewart themillstudio.com.au/studio to remaster a selection of tracks from across her three albums plus some previously unreleased material to create four Singles - Leave The Wake Behind, I Love You (In Any Language), Ready For The Times To Get Better and Heartbreaks & Shipwrecks. An EP of Live tracks Christie Heart In Celtic Cabaret. And two Albums, A Little Bit Country & Folk and Retro Folk (pictured below). The songs are available to stream and download through major music sites world-wide.
