Kate Miller-Heidke is an award-winning singer and songwriter who traverses the worlds of contemporary pop, folk, musical theatre and opera. She represented Australia at the Eurovision Song Competition in 2019 and is currently appearing as a Coach on Channel 7's THE VOICE Australia.
Kate has released 5 top-ten studio albums including O Vertigo!, Nightflight, and Curiouser, which reached double platinum sales and featured the multi-platinum hits ‘The Last Day On Earth’ and ‘Caught In The Crowd’. In 2009 she and her collaborator Keir Nuttall became the first Australians to win the grand prize in the International Songwriting Competition for ‘Caught in the Crowd’. Kate’s latest album, Child In Reverse, was released in October 2020 to enormous critical acclaim and also debuting in the top 10 of the ARIA Charts, with a Deluxe Edition re-release in 2022 featuring the single ‘You Can’t Hurt Me Anymore’ ft. Jaguar Jonze.
Her diverse work has been nominated for ARIAs in categories as varied as Best Pop Release, Best Adult Contemporary Album, Best Classical Album, Best Cast Recording, Best Comedy Release, and Best Australian Live Act.
Trained as a classical singer at the Queensland Conservatorium, Kate has performed roles for the Metropolitan Opera in New York in John Adams’ The Death of Klinghoffer, as well as several roles for the English National Opera, and in Jerry Springer The Opera at the Sydney Opera House. Her debut opera as a composer, The Rabbits (based on the book by Shaun Tan and John Marsden and commissioned by Opera Australia) had sold-out seasons in Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. It won 4 Helpmann Awards including Best Score and Best New Australian Work.
After competing at Eurovision – Australia Decides on the Gold Coast in February 2019, Kate was unanimously chosen by both the jury and public votes to become Australia’s representative at the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest. Kate’s heartfelt performance and the out-of-this world staging of her original composition ‘Zero Gravity’ won her first place in her semi-final, a top ten placing in the Grand Final, and the coveted Marcel Bezançon Award for Artistic Achievement.
With her collaborator Keir Nuttall, she wrote the music and lyrics to Muriel’s Wedding The Musical, which premiered at the Sydney Theatre Company and played throughout 2019 in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. It won five Helpmann Awards, including Best Original Score. It recently had its UK premiere at Curve Theatre Leicester in April 2025, to rave reviews and high expectations for a West End transfer.
Kate and Keir also composed music for Twelfth Night (2018) and As You Like It (2021), both for Melbourne Theatre Company. Their latest work is the new original musical comedy ‘Bananaland', with book by Keir and music & lyrics by Kate & Keir. It made its world premiere at the Brisbane Festival in September 2023 with a further season 2024 Sydney Festival, winning ‘Best Musical or Cabaret’ and ‘Best Composition and/or Sound Design’ at the 2024 Matilda Awards.
Throughout 2024 and early 2025, Kate undertook an extensive tour of Australia on the consecutive CATCHING DIAMONDS Tour of regional towns and the TELLING TALES Tour of
capital cities, performing 70 shows around the country, accompanied only by her collaborator Keir Nuttall on guitar, in a stripped-back, intimate and powerful performance that received enormous critical acclaim and a host of new fans around the country.
Kate then went on to make her debut as one of the four Coaches on The Voice Australia on Channel 7, alongside LeAnn Rimes, Guy Sebastian, and Adam Lambert, and in 2025 returned alongside Ronan Keating, Richard Marx, and Melanie C. She was nominated for her first Logie Award for her debut season, for Best New Talent. She has recently finished recording her third season, set to air later in 2026.
She has just been putting the finishing touched on her upcoming 6th studio album, in the style of 'gothic folk', to be released in Spring 2026 through EMI.