About melanie

Melanie has been described by the Sydney Morning Herald as having a voice of ‘the utmost delicateness’, as a ‘songwriting gem’ by The Australian. Based in Candelo in southern NSW, Melanie has recorded Eleven albums and EPs including her latest solo album, 'Song to Sing on a Saturday Night' and this August's release duo album 'The World Has A Gentle Soul' with Steve Appel. Melanie's critically acclaimed album The Cloud Appreciation Society was long-listed for the 2013 Australian Music Prize, Quatre Chemins for the 2015 Australian Music Prize, and she was nominated for an APRA award in 2011.

She has toured with Glen Hansard and The Frames, Jason Mraz, Bernard Fanning, Lou Rhodes, Slaid Cleaves and Sarah Blasko among others, as well as touring extensively on her own in Australia and Europe. Melanie recorded an album in French, which was funded by the highly successful Pozible campaign and gave Melanie a six month residency in France, writing songs with poet Alain Rivet and pop icon Helena Noguerra. Melanie has also written songs with Wendy Matthews and Catherine Britt, and for film and television. She has recently returned from showcasing at the International Folk Alliance in Montreal

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Someone Like You

Melanie Horsnell & Steve Appel

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The first single from the new album "The World Has A Gentle Soul" due for release 17th August. Click here to preorder the digital or physical album MelanieHorsnell.lnk.to/TheWorldHasAGentleSoul and receive this track as the instant grat track!

I wrote this song a couple of years ago in Sarah Carrolls kitchen - it was a day when a pile of songs spontaneously arrived and it could be because her house bursts with music! Then when I met Steve and we toured the song his harmonies and groove added a nice swagger, and it became a good duet in our set. Enjoy!

Someone Like You

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