[4][2] Greg Champion spent his early childhood in Vienna, before his family moved back to Australia.
[5] He grew up in Hectorville, a suburb of the South Australian capital Adelaide,[2] and was educated at Pulteney Grammar.
[5] Champion has written hundreds of songs (many serious, many humorous) and is a multi-awarded country/folk singer, who after being discovered in the Catacombs (an Adelaide folk club of the 1970s), went on to form the band Tidewater[6] before launching a successful solo career.
[7] Champion's highest-selling album is the 1995-released Aussie Christmas with Bucko & Champs with Australian country music star Colin Buchanan.
[4][8] In 2006, his song "Been There, Done That" peaked at number 4 on the Country Music Chart, having been released that year as part of The Shack Tapes.
[9] In 2021, Champion moved back to Adelaide after more than four decades in Melbourne, forming a new band with Scott Opie, Tom Stehlik and Goof Miller.