Dan Sultan

Dan Sultan is an Australian singer and songwriter. Sultan plays what he calls "country soul rock'n'roll". Daniel Leo Sultan was born in 1983 and grew up in the inner suburbs of Melbourne. His father was Irish and his mother, Roslyn Sultan, was Aboriginal from the Arrernte and Gurindji people. Sultan's father, a lawyer, worked for the Aboriginal Legal Service and as a result the family also lived in Yuendumu (300 kilometres north-west of Alice Springs) in the Tanami Desert, as well as Cairns in Queensland. He started playing guitar aged four and wrote his first song at ten. With Scott Wilson he has released an album called Homemade Biscuits with the help of John Butler's Seed program. Sultan won the Single Release of The Year at the 2007 Deadly Awards for his song "Your Love is Like a Song". His second album, Get Out While You Can, was released in November 2009. It reached No. 1 on the independent Australian charts and was a Triple J feature album. His band is made up of Wilson (vocals and guitar), Joshua Jones (bass), Peter Marin (drums), Gina Woods (keyboards), Steven Veale (horns) and Ben Veale (horns).