{"id":50325,"date":"2019-06-06T13:23:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T12:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=50325"},"modified":"2019-06-06T13:23:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T12:23:22","slug":"australias-guy-sebastian-releases-new-single-choir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2019\/06\/australias-guy-sebastian-releases-new-single-choir\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s Guy Sebastian Releases New Single &#8216;Choir&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Australian award-winning singer-songwriter and TV personality, Guy Sebastian has released his brand new single \u2018Choir\u2019 through Sony Music Entertainment.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Random Ad stuff --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"3107208401\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2076862002005673\"><\/ins><\/p>\n<p><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Guy Sebastian first rose to fame as the winner of Australian Idol in 2003 and went on to rack up 40 platinum releases, six number 1 singles and sell millions of records. He achieved worldwide fame by becoming the first person to represent Australia in the Eurovision Song Contest, back in 2015.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A household name in Australia, Guy has also been a judge on &#8216;X Factor Australia&#8217; for many years alongside the likes of Mel B, Adam Lambert and Iggy Azalea, and is currently a judge on &#8216;The Voice&#8217;. However, through all his years of TV fame, Guy has been driven by his main passion: making music that matters, to him and to others.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I&#8217;m in a place with my music now where I just want to make soulful music that resonates and moves people&#8221;, he says. &#8220;And I&#8217;m happy this song will bring some healing to people who have lost others&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last year Guy Sebastian lost a great mate and his musical right hand man, Luke Liang. Luke was a key member of Guy\u2019s band, they toured locally and internationally together, and as someone who played every instrument beautifully, Luke put together his live shows. The impact of this life cut short, too soon, has been immense on Guy personally and professionally \u2013 and forms the subject of the poignant new single \u2018Choir\u2019.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cLuke made my life better and made life more fun. When I first sat down I was grieving and started writing a ballad and it was slow and it was just not Luke Liang, so I ripped it up and started again. I wanted to write something that was more joyful and that made people want to think of his life and celebrate it rather than feel grief, because I know he wouldn\u2019t want that\u201d. Sebastian laughs fondly. &#8220;So that\u2019s where &#8216;Choir&#8217; was born, which is poignant but fun and up-tempo&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With its big, rousing choral chorus, it&#8217;s a soulful, glorious celebration of a friend of Sebastian&#8217;s, drenched in the happiness and energy that &#8220;life of the party&#8221; Liang brought to those around him. Yet it also keenly resonates with anyone who has grieved the loss of a close friend or family member.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;My hope is that it gives people a different emotion when they&#8217;re reflecting on their lost loved ones. Like when Sarah McLachlan&#8217;s &#8216;Angel&#8217; comes on, you just want to cry. &#8216;Choir&#8217; has a bit of a different emotion to it; it&#8217;s more a celebration. It&#8217;s a happy celebration of the good times&#8221;, Sebastian explains.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2018Choir\u2019 follows on from Sebastian&#8217;s anthem of fierce determination, \u2018Before I Go\u2019, released at the tail end of 2018. The platinum-selling track has been in the Australian radio airplay charts for the past 24 weeks, while Sebastian has had a hit with it in Europe with it peaking at number one on the iTunes charts in the Netherlands, where he also performed it on The Voice earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Guy is soon to announce touring plans, including the UK, as well as even more exciting developments in a career that remains at the top of his creative space. His is a voice that continues to show its strength, soulfulness and resilience, and \u2018Choir\u2019 is a part of this next chapter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Guy has also set up The Sebastian Family Charity which supports communities, groups, and children, empowering women and taking a stand against domestic violence. See <a href=\"https:\/\/thesebastianfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> for more information. You can also keep up to date with Guy on his <a href=\"http:\/\/guysebastian.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">official website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Choir\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/5XMFBIjrkNad5OhZyUmbT3?si=Zl9MtF44Tnm8APbK_k8JBQ&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian award-winning singer-songwriter and TV personality, Guy Sebastian has released his brand new single \u2018Choir\u2019 through Sony Music Entertainment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,9,21453,21446],"tags":[5388,73,1050,21554,3863,219,814,4991,21553,294,370,8096,78,304,16636,21552,2837,21555],"class_list":["post-50325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-new-releases","category-new-singles","category-single-reviews","tag-adam-lambert","tag-australia","tag-australian","tag-before-i-go","tag-choir","tag-eurovision-song-contest","tag-guy-sebastian","tag-iggy-azalea","tag-luke-liang","tag-mel-b","tag-new-single","tag-pop-idol","tag-singer","tag-songwriter","tag-sony-music-entertainment","tag-the-sebastian-family-charity","tag-the-voice","tag-x-factor-australia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-d5H","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":55781,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2019\/09\/guy-sebastian-announces-exclusive-london-headline-show\/","url_meta":{"origin":50325,"position":0},"title":"Guy Sebastian Announces Exclusive London Headline Show","author":"Essentially Pop","date":"18\/09\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Guy Sebastian Announces London Headline Show At Heaven On December 5. 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