Switch also marked Fortune's only album with the band before parting ways in August 2011 due to creative differences and to work on his solo projects.

[3] He began to show his interest in music and performing at a very young age after finding the soundtrack for Kurt Russell's movie Elvis.

Fortune was living in his car, under a bridge,[1] when he applied for and was selected as a contestant on CBS's TV show Rock Star: INXS.

Three singles from the album were released over the next twelve months including the track "Pretty Vegas" which was co-written by Fortune and INXS's Andrew Farriss, amongst others.

The week of 25 February 2006, "Pretty Vegas" reached its highest charting at Number 7 on the Billboard Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks.

[8] On 16 February 2009, Fortune revealed in an interview with Entertainment Tonight Canada that INXS fired him from the band with a handshake at a Hong Kong airport.

[10] Fortune stated he had been off cocaine for the past two years;[11][12] at the time, he was living out of his car and had put all his remaining money into his solo album The Death of a Motivational Speaker.

On 25 September 2010, INXS and Fortune headlined the pre-match entertainment at the AFL Grand Final Event in Melbourne, Australia.

[18] During a radio interview prior to the performance in Broome, Western Australia, Kirk Pengilly confirmed that Fortune was a permanent member of INXS.

In September 2011, Fortune and INXS announced that they had mutually agreed to go their separate ways and pursue different artistic projects.

[29][30] On 8 February 2011, Fortune announced via Twitter that his song "Wicked World" would begin airing in a promotion for an episode of the CBS Television program Criminal Minds.