Blue Box (album) explained

Blue Box
Type:studio
Artist:Kate Ceberano
Cover:Blue_Box_(Kate_Ceberano_album_art_work).jpg
Released:1996
Recorded:1993–96
New York, Los Angeles, London, Sydney
Genre:Pop, R&B, soul
Length:62:40
Label:Mushroom Records
Producer:Alan Friedman, Ashley Cadell, Fred Maher, Kate Ceberano, Mark Goldenberg and Mike Shipley
Prev Title:Kate Ceberano and Friends
Prev Year:1994
Next Title:Pash
Next Year:1997

Blue Box is a studio album released by Australian recording artist Kate Ceberano in 1996. The album peaked at number 18 on the ARIA Charts. The album's second single, "Change" was nominated for two ARIA Awards in 1996.[1]

Background and recording

Following the success of the 1992 Australian leg of Jesus Christ Superstar, Ceberano was inundated with interest from various record labels. She elected to go with Elektra Records and moved to New York to record an album with producer Fred Maher. On the eve of delivering the album to the label, Elekra records named Sylvia Rhone as its chairman and CEO. Rhone sacked seventy-eight artists (including Ceberano) as she wanted to turn the Elektra into a hip hop label and Ceberano's album was scrapped.[2] Some of these songs appeared on Blue Box.

Ceberano returned to Australia where she filmed the TV show and recorded the album Kate Ceberano and Friends, which was released in January 1994. Ceberano hired Richard East as her manager and they signed with Mushroom Records to record a new album. Ceberano and East travelled to London to write and record and whilst East was stayed in London to work on the musical Mamma Mia!, Ceberano travelled to Los Angeles and worked with Mark Goldenberg on a number of songs. Mushroom Records eventually released the album in 1996, which consisted of songs from all of these recording sessions. In her 2014 autobiography, Ceberano said "I'm not sure how the [new] material sat with the Globe songs. After all the arguing, with myself and with other people, over what kind of singer I was, whether I was a jazz singer or a pop singer, Blue Box gave me the confidence to think of myself simply as a singer".[3]

Awards

Ceberano was nominated for two ARIA Music Awards at the 1996 ceremony.[4]

|-| rowspan=2|1996| rowspan=2| "Change"| Best Female Artist| |-| Best Adult Contemporary Album| |-|}

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Winners By Year - 27th ARIA Awards 2013. ariaawards.com.au. 3 January 2014.
  2. Book: Ceberano, Kate. I'm Talking. Hachette. Sydney, Australia. 2014. 978-0-7336-3023-1.
  3. Book: Ceberano, Kate. I'm Talking. Hachette. Sydney, Australia. 2014. 978-0-7336-3023-1.
  4. Web site: Winners By Year - 27th ARIA Awards 2013. ariaawards.com.au. 3 January 2014.