Dianna Corcoran is an Australian country music singer-songwriter. Among numerous awards, she is a two-time Golden Guitar

Country Music Awards of Australia

The CMAA Country Music Awards of Australia is an annual awards night held in January during the Tamworth Country Music Festival, in Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia celebrating recording excellence in the Australian country music industry. They are wholly owned and staged by the Country Music...

 winner

History

Corcoran's initial interest in country music involved yodeling

Yodeling

Yodeling is a form of singing that involves singing an extended note which rapidly and repeatedly changes in pitch from the vocal or chest register to the falsetto/head register; making a high-low-high-low sound.The English word yodel is derived from a German word jodeln meaning "to...

. After finishing high school, Corcoran moved to Adelaide where she worked in three jobs (recruitment, dog food factory and car parts plant) to save enough money to make her first record (Little Bit Crazy). She became a professional musician in 2004. In that year, she toured with Adam Brand

Adam Brand

Adam Brand is an Australian musician who sings country music. Active since 1997, he has released seven studio albums and thirteen singles. His first three albums are all certified platinum in Australia...

 as an opening act

Opening act

An opening act or warm-up act is an entertainer or entertainment act that performs at a concert before the featured entertainer...

. It was also in that year that she won her first Golden Guitar Award for New Talent of the Year.

Corcoran has been deployed on three occasions to perform for Australian troops on active duty in war zones around the world, including a tour of Afghanistan with Jenny Morris

Jenny Morris

Jennifer "Jenny" Patricia Morris OAM is a New Zealand-born Australian pop, rock singer-songwriter. Her first success came with New Zealand band The Crocodiles, who had a top 20 hit single with "Tears"...

. During one such tour to the Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands is a sovereign state in Oceania, east of Papua New Guinea, consisting of nearly one thousand islands. It covers a land mass of . The capital, Honiara, is located on the island of Guadalcanal...

 in March 2007 she met Tom Hinds, an Australian soldier. Corcoran wrote the song "Come Back Home" on the album Keep Breathing for him. She has written other songs about family and childhood experiences, including her father ("If You Hear Angels"), her mother ("You’ll Always Love Me More") and her hometown Parkes ("Rocky Hill").

In 2008 Corcoran won her second Golden Guitar in the highly sought-after category of Female Artist of the Year. In August, Corcoran was invited by Deborah Conway

Deborah Conway

Deborah Ann Conway, is an Australian rock singer-songwriter and guitarist, and had a career as a model and actor. She was a founding member of the 1980s rock band Do-Ré-Mi with their surprise top 5 hit "Man Overboard"....

 to take part in the Broad Festival project, which toured major Australian cities including performing at the Sydney Opera House. With Corcoran and Conway were Laura Jean

Laura Jean

Laura Jean Englert is an Australian musician from Melbourne, Victoria who performs as Laura Jean. She is known for her classically inspired folk songs, often using a range of orchestral instruments. She garnered much critical acclaim for her debut album, Our Swan Song, receiving high rotational...

, Liz Stringer and Elana Stone

Elana Stone

Elana Stone is a vocalist, songwriter, pianist, accordion player, and band leader based in Sydney, Australia. Described by John Bailey from Sunday Age as 'One of the most impressive singing voices in the country' , her album In the Garden of Wild Things was released in 2006 on the Jazzgroove label...

 – they performed their own and each other's songs.

Awards and nominations

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| 2011
| Dianna Corcoran (Keep Breathing)
| CMAA Country Music Awards – Album of the Year
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| 2011
| Dianna Corcoran ("Thank You For Cheating On Me")
| CMAA Country Music Awards – Female Artist of the Year
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| 2011
| Dianna Corcoran ("Thank You For Cheating On Me")
| CMAA Country Music Awards – Single of the Year
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| 2010
| Dianna Corcoran
| Australian Independent Country Music Awards – Artist of the Year
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| 2010
| Dianna Corcoran ("Thank You For Cheating On Me")
| Australian Independent Country Music Awards – Female Vocalist of the Year
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| 2010
| Dianna Corcoran ("Thank You For Cheating On Me")
| Australian Independent Country Music Awards – Single of the Year
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| 2008
| Dianna Corcoran (Then There's Me)
| CMAA Country Music Awards – Female Artist of the Year
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| 2008
| Dianna Corcoran (Then There's Me)
| CMAA Country Music Awards – Album of the Year
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| 2008
| Dianna Corcoran and Karl Broadie ("Count Your Blessings")
| CMAA Country Music Awards – Vocal Collaboration of the Year
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| 2004
| Dianna Corcoran
| Australasian Performing Right Association – Professional Development Award
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| 2004
| Dianna Corcoran ("I'll Fly Away")
| CMAA Country Music Awards – New Talent of the Year
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| 2004
| Dianna Corcoran ("I'll Fly Away")
| CMAA Country Music Awards – Female Vocalist of the Year
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| 2003
| Dianna Corcoran ("I'll Fly Away")
| Australian Independent Country Music Awards – Rising Star Female
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Discography

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