Shannon Noll (born September 16, 1975 in Orange, New South Wales) grew up on a farm in rural Australia and took his first musical steps in a band he formed with his siblings, Cypress. He first shot to fame following an appearance on the 2003 debut season of Australian Idol where he finished second place. His debut studio album, That's What I'm Talking About, arrived the following year, topping Australia's ARIA Charts with its first single, the stripped-back ballad "What About Me" – a cover of the 1982 track by Australian rockers Moving Pictures – also making it to Number 1. "What About Me" became the highest-selling single of 2004 in Australia, was certified 4x platinum and cemented Shannon Noll's status as a country-minded pop-rock national treasure. Tipping his cowboy hat to the lineage of Australian country music mainstays, his second album Lift came in 2005 and featured "Now I Run," a tribute to his father who was killed during a farming accident in 2001. The album debuted at Number 1 on the ARIA Charts and was nominated for Best Pop Release at the 2006 ARIA awards, the first industry-voted nomination for any Australian Idol contestant. Shannon Noll went on to notch up another three Top 10 albums – Turn It Up (2007), A Million Suns (2011), Unbroken (2018) – as well as a steady stream of singles, including 2016's "Who I Am," which was the lead single from Unbroken and peaked at Number 56 on Australia's ARIA Charts. 2021 saw the release of Shannon Noll's sixth studio album Raw.
