Carly Binding (born 2 February 1978) is a New Zealand pop singer-songwriter, and former member of the girl group TrueBliss.
After a successful string of auditions, Binding joined Joe Cotton, Keri Harper, Erika Takacs, and Megan Alatini, to be part of New Zealand pop girl group TrueBliss who formed in April 1999 on the popular television show Popstars, which aired on TVNZ's TV2 channel for nine weeks in the search for a new girl group.
In 2007, Binding was invited to play at the music festival SXSW which is held in Austin, Texas each year.
This led to her spending a further four months in the US playing regular shows at venues on the Sunset Strip and surrounding areas in Los Angeles.
[5] She became engaged to long-term partner Andy Mateljan in March 2022,[6] and they share a son together who they welcomed into the world in November 2019.