FACETS IS OUT FEBRUARY 2025
September 16, 2024: With her fourth album Facets set for release in early 2025, Wanita today gives us another taste of the forthcoming record in the powerful new single, Brian’s Song.
Packing an emotional punch, Brian’s Song is the second single to be lifted from the album and follows the toe-tapping, catchy Red Hot Cookin’ Momma – which picked up National airplay across ABC Country, Australian Country Radio and community radio.
Wanita says; “This song is about a young man I got involved with after meeting his Mother. She needed help as Brian was trying to stay off drugs. I was making head way with Brian until his Mother’s mental health issues intervened… she went off the rails. He then shot through.
About 6 months I got the news he was found dead under a park bench”.
Brian’s Song is now streaming on all platforms.
Album Facets is out February 2025 via Gyrostream.
This renegade redhead – a rough-talking, hard-drinking singer / songwriter – views life through an autistic lens and is committed to the sound and stars of a bygone era in Country Music. In her own words, “I’m in the wrong era and so is the music I play.” Despite her induction into the Australian Country Music ‘Hands of Fame’ in 2023,
Described by US Country music legend Billy Yates in Nashville’s famed Beaird Recording Studio as “… so consistently good”, Wanita’s voice is respected around the world. She’s toured in Europe and owned the UK’s highest selling Country Music import album of the year in 2013. She’s even been the subject of a multi-award-winning documentary film (I’m Wanita), which in 2022 won ‘Best Music Documentary’ at both the London and Sydney Film Festivals among other awards from Nashville, Calgary and New Orleans. The film also won ‘Best Feature Documentary’ at the AIDC Awards.
With three albums already released and her latest work titled ‘Facets’, to be launched in February 2025, Wanita is building a body of work that stands alone in this genre within her homeland.
Wanita has led a turbulent life. She’s renowned as much for her monumental stage presence, exceptional vocal capacity, and her deep connection with traditional Country music, as she is her torrid mood swings. The latter are inevitably brought on by those who display laziness, incompetence, racism, prejudice, or dishonesty, as Wanita also genuinely cares about people.
This magnificent red-haired, red-lipped, real, and raw woman, brings new, original Honky Tonk music to our lives complete with a story of triumph over the struggle of our everyday lives. This is Wanita.
TIMELINE
1971 – Born 22 June
1984 – Won 1st talent quest, with another 46 in a row
2010 – First album release: Wanita & The Honky Tonk Bar Dwellers
2012 – Second album release: The Original Wanita
2013 – Sweden Tour
2013 – UK’s ‘Best Honky Tonk’ Album of the Year
2013 – UK’s highest selling country music import album of the year
2014 – Filming of “I’m Wanita” documentary began (filmed over 7½ year period)
2018 – Beaird Studio (Nashville, US) recording of ‘I’m Wanita’ Album
2021 – Documentary “I’m Wanita” featured world premiere at Hot Docs Canada
2021 – Third album release: “I’m Wanita”
2022 – “I’m Wanita” documentary – best music documentary at the London Film Festival
2022 – “I’m Wanita” documentary – best overall documentary at the Sydney Film Festival
2022 – Voted into the top 10 Australian films for 2021
2022 – Won the 2022 AIDC Award (Australian International Documentary Conference)
2023 – Wanita inducted to the Australian Country Music Hands of Fame in Tamworth
2024 – 1st single ‘Red Hot Cookin’ Momma’ off Fourth album “Facets” released August 2.
2025 – Fourth album ‘Facets’ released
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