Gyan Evans

She began her musical career in the Sydney band Haiku before winning the 1986 grand final in the local version of the TV talent quest Star Search.

[5] It was produced by Charles Fisher (1927, Midnight Oil, Hoodoo Gurus, Olivia Newton-John, Radio Birdman).

[5] From October 1989 to January the next year, Gyan toured Australia to promote the album backed by The Dearly Beloved with Stapleton on guitar and keyboards, Asakti (Gyan's sister) on backing vocals, Hanuman Das on drums, Mark O'Connor on keyboards and David Sparks on guitar.

[11][12] In April that year she toured Europe,[13] where she was popular in the Soviet Union despite her "fans not understanding the words of her songs".

[16] In July 1992, the album's lead single, "Something's Gotta Give", which had been co-written with Gaze,[17] was released, and entered the top 100 in August.

[18] Some of her songwriting occurred when staying in "a pretty sleazy hotel – in London and it was good for writing because it was a kind of depressed place.

[13] Australian musicologist Ian McFarlane noted that Reddest Red "made less use of the synthesised textures of [her] debut".

[4] Jan Borrie of The Canberra Times said it was "more cohesive and well-rounded than the first and marks a more mature style of song writing for the singer".

[13] To promote the album Gyan toured with Tim Gaze on acoustic guitar (ex-Tamam Shud, Kahvas Jute, Rose Tattoo).

[1][4] In 1998 Gyan travelled to the United States to start work on a third album titled Suburban Opera, with producer Desmond Child.

It was not released in its entirety: a promo-only single, "Don't Hide Your Wild Away", was issued in 2001 and in 2003 most of its tracks first appeared as The Invisible Bird via Gyan's website.

Meanwhile, she sang backing vocals on Ricky Martin's track "Nobody Wants to Be Lonely" from his album, Sound Loaded.

[21][22] She signed to Universal Records and worked as a songwriter for US country music singer, LeAnn Rimes.

In 2002, Gyan contributed the song "Life's Great If You Don't Weaken" to the soundtrack of the Australian film The Nugget and co-wrote Paul Kelly's "Nobody She Knows".

Gyan has also contributed to the soundtracks for the Australian films Weekend with Kate, The Sum of Us, 33 Postcards, Mental, Drift, The Turning, The Little Death and Little Tornadoes.