Tash Sultana

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Tash Sultana (2017)

Natasha " Tash " Sultana (born June 15, 1995 in Melbourne , Victoria , Australia ) is of Australian - Maltese nationality and works in the areas of singer-songwriting , multi-instrumental , beatboxing and looping art . Sultana achieved greater notoriety in April 2016 when the video of her own song Jungle received more than a million views within a few days. Further recordings of live sessions in our own YouTube channel, published as Live Bedroom Recordings , received a great response . Sultana describes his own music as "not genre-based". The sound is a mixture of electronic indie , folk , jazz , reggae , rock and soul .

life and career

Childhood and youth

Natasha Sultana grew up in Melbourne. At the age of three, Sultana received her first guitar from her grandfather and began to show a passion for music as a child.

At the age of 17 years Sultana suffered after consuming psilocybin mushrooms a drug-induced psychosis , followed by nine months in therapy. Especially the music helped Sultana to find his way back to himself. During this time Sultana also taught herself to loop. In order to earn at least her own pocket money when asked by her mother, Sultana began solo street performances and gradually professionalized it.

Music career

Street appearances as well as live sessions recorded at home and published in social media and numerous smaller appearances in clubs and bars have led to an ever-increasing fan base around Sultana since 2013. In June 2016, Sultana was finally signed to Lemon Tree Music, a Melbourne management agency for up and coming local musicians. The agency then organized Sultana's first world tour with concerts in Australia , New Zealand , Germany , Great Britain and the Netherlands .

Sultana's song Jungle was included in the soundtrack of the soccer simulation FIFA 18 in 2017 .

Notion EP

On September 23, 2016, Sultana released the first EP entitled Notion on his own record label Lonely Lands Records . Thus Sultana won in November 2016 the price "2016 Unearthed Artist J Award" of the Australian radio station Triple J . The singles Jungle and Notion both landed in the Triple J Hottest 100, 2016 . In early 2017, the EP was released as a multi-format with the help of the new partner (record label Mom + Pop Music) .

2017: "Murder to the Mind", Notion World Tour and Homecoming Tour

Tash Sultana at a concert in Melkweg in Amsterdam (July 2017)

In February 2017, Sultana completed a sold out US tour. On April 21, Sultana released the single Murder to the Mind . Shortly afterwards, Sultana was forced to cancel two concerts of the Groovin The Moo 2017 festival series due to a laryngitis . In the months that followed, Sultana performed at numerous festivals and sold out solo appearances in Australia, New Zealand and across Europe. In July, Sultana announced that after the end of the world tour in November and December, she would play stadium and arena concerts in Australia as a Homecoming Tour .

Music style and reception

Tash Sultana plays the trumpet during a performance (2017)

In addition to the parade instrument, the guitar , Tash Sultana has mastered ten other instruments, all of which he taught himself, including bass , various flutes, piano , mandolin , harmonica , saxophone , trumpet and some percussion instruments . Sultana draws inspiration - according to her own statements - from the music of Jimi Hendrix , Erykah Badu , Bob Marley , Led Zeppelin , alt-J and Phil Collins .

Sultana is valued by the fans for impressive live performances. As a “one-person band”, multi-tasking using several instruments and thanks to the stage presence, the jam character of Sultana's appearances is retained even at larger concerts .

Personal

Tash Sultana is an ambassador for the Australian non-profit organization beyondblue . The aim of the organization is to create sensitivity for mental illnesses such as depression or anxiety disorders as well as to support those affected.

Sultana lives with girlfriend in Melbourne. 2018 explains Sultana own gender identity as non-binary (nonbinary) and claims the singular pronoun They .

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Flow state
  AU 2 09/10/2018 (5 weeks)
  DE 18th 07.09.2018 (2 weeks)
  AT 43 14.09.2018 (1 week)
  CH 22nd 09.09.2018 (2 weeks)
  UK 67 13.09.2018 (1 week)
  US 51 09/15/2018 (1 week)
EPs
Notion EP
  AU 8th 
gold
gold
10/09/2016 (20 weeks)
  CH 94 07/28/2019 (1 week)
Singles
Jungle
  AU 39 
Double platinum
× 2
Double platinum
02/12/2017 (2 weeks)

Studio albums

  • 2018: Flow State

EPs

  • 2013: Yin Yang
  • 2016: Notion

Singles

  • 2015: Higher
  • 2015: Brainflower
  • 2016: Gemini
  • 2016: Notion (AU:platinumplatinum)
  • 2016: Jungle
  • 2017: Murder to the Mind (AU:goldgold)
  • 2017: Mysticism (AU:goldgold)
  • 2018: Salvation
  • 2018: Harvest Love
  • 2018: Free Mind
  • 2019: Can't Buy Happiness
  • 2019: Talk It Out (with Matt Corby )
  • 2019: Daydreaming (with Milky Chance )

Web links

Commons : Tash Sultana  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Lars Brandle: Watch Aussie Newcomer Tash Sultana's Mind-Melting Cover of MGMT's “Electric Feel”. In: Billboard . February 13, 2017, accessed April 30, 2020.
  2. ^ Greg Moskovitch: Tash Sultana shares video, get a million views in five days . Tone Deaf . May 3, 2016. Retrieved August 17, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b c Benjamin Kanthak: Hype about Tash Sultana: How a junkie became Australia's new star. . puls.br . March 1, 2017. Retrieved August 17, 2017.
  4. ^ Tash Sultana: I am not a genre based artist . facebook . March 10, 2017. Retrieved August 17, 2017.
  5. ↑ Program announcement: Tash Sultana. (No longer available online.) In: Montreux Jazz Festival . July 6, 2017, archived from the original on August 18, 2017 ; accessed on March 5, 2020 .
  6. ↑ a b c Lucy Cormack: Tash Sultana review: Welcome to the jungle of the one woman band . The Sydney Morning Herald . October 19, 2016. Retrieved August 17, 2017.
  7. ↑ a b Tash Sultana talks gender fluidity and our generation accepting diversity. . awareproject . April 4, 2016. Retrieved August 17, 2017.
  8. ^ A b c d Marc Fennell: "I was a complete drug addict": The musical journey of Tash Sultana. . SBS . November 16, 2016. Retrieved August 17, 2017.
  9. ↑ a b Alice Matthews: Hottest 100 hopes for Tash Sultana after being named triple j Unearthed Artist Of The Year . abc . January 25, 2017. Retrieved August 18, 2017.
  10. ↑ a b Tash Sultana Signs Management Deal With Lemon Tree Music. . themusic.com . June 20, 2016. Retrieved August 18, 2017.
  11. ↑ Words by: Shaad D'Souza: Tash Sultana and Cut Copy are on the new FIFA soundtrack . In: triple j . September 15, 2017 ( net.au [accessed April 25, 2018]).
  12. ^ Greg Moskovitch: Tash Sultana Announces New EP & Launches Her Own Record Label. . Tone Deaf . September 14, 2016. Retrieved August 18, 2017.
  13. ^ Tash Sultana wins the 2016 Unearthed J Award. . triplejunearthed . November 18, 2016. Retrieved August 18, 2017.
  14. ↑ Tash Sultana Joins The Mom + Pop Fam! . Mom + pop . January 20, 2017. Retrieved August 18, 2017.
  15. ↑ Steph Harmon: Triple J Hottest 100 crib notes: up-and-coming artists set to sweep the countdown. . The Guardian . January 25, 2017. Retrieved August 18, 2017.
  16. ↑ Eric Skelton: Tash Sultana Shares Mesmerizing New Song "Murder To The Mind" . Pigeons & Planes . April 21, 2017. Retrieved August 18, 2017.
  17. ↑ Sam Murphey: Tash Sultana Cancels Groovin The Moo Appearance . musicfeeds . May 6, 2017. Retrieved August 18, 2017.
  18. ↑ a b About Tash Sultana . tashsultana.com . Retrieved August 18, 2017.
  19. ↑ Tom Williams: Tash Sultana Announces 2017 Homecoming tour . musicfeeds . July 25, 2017. Retrieved August 18, 2017.
  20. ↑ Tash Sultana: “Alt-J makes me wanna ride a horse with bow & arrow” - 5 essential tracks. . 3FM . August 6, 2017. Retrieved August 17, 2017.
  21. ↑ Zainab Boladale: Meet Tash Sultana, the self-taught musician Aussie who just blew the roof off Vicar St . Independent.ie . June 30, 2017. Retrieved August 17, 2017.
  22. ↑ Julia Sansone: Tash Sultana: The long road to overnight success. . beat . Retrieved August 17, 2017.
  23. ↑ Peter McGoran: Tash Sultana: On busking, touring, and why music keeps her going. . hotpress . July 27, 2017. Retrieved August 17, 2017.
  24. ↑ Lyndsey Havens: Australian Artist Tash Sultana Talks Turning a Toxic Past Into a Positive Future. In: Billboard . March 6, 2017, accessed March 5, 2020 .
  25. ^ Tash Sultana: Info. In: Facebook . 2020, accessed on March 5, 2020 .
  26. ↑ Kelly Wynne: Tash Sultana opens up about music career and a healthy future. In: Newsweek . August 7, 2018, accessed March 5, 2020 .
  27. ↑ a b c Chart sources: AU DE AT CH UK US
  28. ↑ Awards for music sales: AU
personal data
SURNAME Sultana, Tash
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sultana, Natasha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian-Maltese singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, beatboxing and looping artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Melbourne , Victoria , Australia