Natalie Gauci

Natalie Gauci (November 26, 1981, Australia) is an Australian singer. She is the winner of Australian Idol 2007. Before Idol, Natalie Gauci was a session musician who performed with a few artists including Matt Hetherington and Beven Addinsal. After performing at various venues, she began songwriting and creating her first record, releasing a solo EP on April 2006 titled Take It or Leave It. The EP scored at the Top 500 in the Billboard World Songwriting Contest in 2007. On November 2006, Gauci was invited to Los Angeles as part of the "Oz City Song Circle", where she performed with other Australian artists to the American audience. At around the end of 2006 into 2007, she formed "The Natalie Gauci Band" which featured herself on vocals and keyboard, Kumar Shome on electric and acoustic guitar, Jules Pascoe on electric and double bass and Conrad Tracey on drums and percussion. The band took a soul, pop and jazz style, and have performed at several venues around Melbourne. As of 2011, her debut album The Legacy, has been scrapped in favour of new music by group Tune in Tokyo. Their first single was released towards the end of 2010, and featured the supposed first single from The Legacy. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.