Katie Anne Noonan (born 2â¯Mayâ¯1977 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian singer, songwriter, keyboardist and pianist whose career spans jazz, pop, rock and dance. After studying opera and jazz at the Queensland Conservatorium, she coâfounded the popârock band George with her brother Tyrone Noonan in 1996; the groupâs debut album Polyserena (2002) reached Numberâ¯1 on the ARIA albums chart and earned the 2002 ARIA Breakthrough Artist award. In 1997 she founded the jazz trio Elixir, whose album First Seed Ripening (2011) won the 2011 ARIA Award for Best Jazz Album. Katie Noonanâs solo path includes Skin (2007), which debuted at numberâ¯6 on the ARIA Topâ¯50 and spawned the single "Time to Begin", and Second Skin (2008), a dance remix of that work. She collaborated with Paulâ¯Grabowsky on Before Time Could Change Us (2005), an ARIAâwinning jazz album, and with Karinâ¯Schaupp on Songs of the Southern Skies (2012) and Songs of the Latin Skies (2017). Other notable releases are Emperor's Box (2010), With Love and Fury (2016) with the Brodsky Quartet, Gratitude and Grief (2018), and The Glad Tomorrow (2019). In 2026 she released the album Alone But All One. Katie Noonan has won four ARIA awards and served as musical director for the 2018 Commonwealth Games ceremonies.
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