Ngaiire

Ngaiire
A 31-year-old woman is shown in upper body and left profile. She is singing into a microphone while raising her left arm in front of herself. She wears a khaki cloth top with pink and white woolly sleeves. Another person is blurred in the background.
Newtown Social Club, August 2015
Background information
Birth nameNgaire Laun J Joseph
Born1984 (1984)
Lae, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea
OriginLismore, New South Wales, Australia
Genres
OccupationSinger-songwriter
InstrumentVocals
Years active2002–present
Labels
  • Windsong
  • Wantok
  • MGM
Websitengaiire.com

Ngaire Laun Joseph (born 1984, in Lae), known by her stage name Ngaiire (pronounced ny-ree or /naɪəriː/), is a Papua New Guinea-born Australian-based R&B and future soul singer-songwriter. Her musical career commenced in 2003 with an enrollment in a bachelor of Jazz Studies at the Central Queensland University (CQU).[1] In 2004, she competed in the second season of Australian Idol, where she competed as a semi-finalist but did not make it to the final 12 singers. She then worked with Blue King Brown and Paul Mac as a session vocalist before re-focusing on her solo career in 2008.

Ngaiire's debut studio album, Lamentations, was released in July 2013 and her second album, Blastoma, was released in June 2016. Her third, 3, was released in August 2021.

In 2018 APRA AMCOS appointed Ngaiire as an ambassador.[2][3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference CQU years was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "APRA AMCOS appoints 13 new female ambassadors". The Music Network. 13 December 2018. Retrieved 30 September 2019.
  3. ^ AMCOS, APRA. "PDA recipient Ngaiire on the art of collaboration". apraamcos.com.au. Retrieved 3 October 2019.