Caroline Taylor-Knight was born in a small country town 600 kilometres west of Sydney and grew up on farms in Central NSW and Central Queensland. Her introduction to the spotlight came at 10 years old when she performed solo in front of 1,000 people from her local community and many low key performances followed. Caroline did modelling and acting in her late teens, whilst completing her Marketing degree but music was always her true love.
Since then Caroline has written and released an
independent EP, which generated interest from a number of
record companies and publishers, was aired on several
commercial radio stations and saw her nominated for Best
New Talent at the QRA (Queensland Recording Association)
Awards in Brisbane. It also sparked the interest of a Gold
Coast events co-coordinator, who promptly placed her as
the support act for Daryl Braithwaite. Exceedingly
impressed by Caroline's performance, the said promoter
immediately offered her supports for both Vanessa Amorosi
and James Morrison's upcoming concerts. After Daryl's
concert, local record stores phoned the promoter, asking
if Caroline had a CD available, as they had been flooded
with customers asking to purchase her album. Caroline was
also booked to launch Australia Post's Rock Australia
Stamp series at the Brisbane GPO series and organisers
were so impressed that they invited her to perform four
songs (including one of her originals) to open a major
football game in Brisbane for a stadium crowd of 20,000
people. The show was incredibly well received and a career
highlight to date.
Fuelled by this success and attracting the attention of
award-winning producer Duncan Wood (both professionally
and personally), Caroline put her heart and soul into
recording her debut album Fall for Me, on which she
wrote or co-wrote all but one of the eleven tracks.
Fall for Me is now available to order in good music
stores nationally in
Australia, on iTunes and through her website
shop
Caroline released her second album "Me Again" produced by Duncan Wood and it is available to order in all good music stores, on iTunes or at touchwoodproductions.com/shop.htm . It is a dynamic, compelling and personal album that opens an exciting new chapter in Caroline’s career. The first single "Enough" proved popular on country radio reaching number 14 on 98.9fm’s All Australian Top 20 and her second single "Are You There?" has gave Caroline her first national chart hit, reaching number 15 on the CMR Top 30. Her third single “Country Girl” is Caroline's first Top Ten reaching number 5 on 98.9fm’s All Australian Top 20. Caroline was a finalist in the Sapphire Award Category at the Channel C Blue Shoe Awards in December 2010 where she also performed and presented an award. A huge Tamworth 2011 followed with seven shows with her label mates Dane and Jessica followed by performances at the Logan Unites 4 Lockyer Benefit Event and the Urban Country Music Festival. Caroline also released her forth single from her "Me Again" album entitled "Love is an Action" and was a finalist in the 2011 Female Vocalist of the Year in the Queensland Country Music Awards. Caroline is currently again on country radio featuring on Dane Sharp's new single "Time for Love" and they've just filmed the video clip which will be airing on CMC soon. Caroline is looking forward to filming more video clips and has just filmed a Live & Intimate DVD (proudly supported by the Moreton Bay Regional Council and Arts Queensland) due for release in April 2012, along with many more shows with label-mates Dane Sharp, Jessica Townsend and Duncan Wood and the Touchwood band (Darren Scott and Don Macarthur along with Micah Reimers and Cvitan Barac/Arno Cassidy for larger shows) as the Touchwood Come Together Tour continues. Just back from six shows in Tamworth, 2012 is set to be a huge year for this talented artist.