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Darren Hayes

Beginning his music career as half of multi-platinum-selling pop duo Savage Garden, singer and songwriter Darren Hayes achieved platinum sales of his own as solo artist with his agile, high vocal range and a style that traverses earnest pop balladry, sparkling dance-pop, synth pop, and occasional darker corners. After his solo debut, 2002's Spin, a blend of R&B, dance, and soft rock stylings, shot to the upper reaches of the album charts in the U.K. and his native Australia, Hayes followed up with such Top Ten efforts as 2004's synth-forward The Tension & the Spark and 2011's eclectic Secret Codes & Battleships. A ten-year recording hiatus that included a foray into stand-up comedy followed thereafter, until Hayes returned in 2022 with the shimmering, dance-pop-oriented Homosexual, which found the songwriter looking back on his teen years with the wiser perspective of his 50-year-old self. A native of Brisbane, Darren Stanley Hayes organized performances at home from a very young age with the support of his mother. When he was 15, he had the opportunity to see Michael Jackson perform live locally, a moment he credits with making him pursue a career as an entertainer. He met musician Daniel Jones in 1993 after responding to an ad in a local music magazine looking for a lead vocalist. That initial covers band only lasted a year, but Hayes and Jones went on to form a duo called Crush, which they renamed Bliss to avoid confusion with another band, and finally to Savage Garden, a phrase taken from Anne Rice's novel The Vampire Lestat. The duo began recording their self-titled debut album with producer Charles Fisher (Hoodoo Gurus, the Divinyls) in 1995. The record's lead single, the sleek, pining, and uptempo "I Want You," became 1996's best-selling country single by an Australian act for. The follow-up singles, "To the Moon and Back" and "Truly Madly Deeply," both went all the way to number one in Australia, with the latter song also topping the singles charts in the U.S. and Canada. The album produced seven singles in all, with "Break Me Shake Me" becoming their fourth Top Ten hit in Australia. The duo returned to the national Top Five with "The Animal Song" and "I Knew I Loved You" from their second album, 1999's more ballad-heavy Affirmation, which was produced by Walter Afanasieff (Mariah Carey, Céline Dion). "I Knew I Loved You" become their second song to top the U.S. Hot 100 and third to go to number one in Canada. The album produced four Australian Top 20 hits in all, including a title track that Savage Garden performed at the 2000 Summer Olympics Closing Ceremony. Affirmation itself went to number one in Australia, Canada, and Sweden while charting in the Top Ten in places including the U.K. and New Zealand as well as Stateside. Following a world tour, Savage Garden broke up in late 2001, with Jones starting his own Meridien Musik label, and Hayes, who had since relocated to the United States, recording a solo album in San Francisco with Afanasieff. The January 2001 lead single, falsetto ballad "Insatiable," was a hit, peaking at number three in Australia, eight in Britain, and topping the song chart in New Zealand. When the album followed on Columbia in March, it reached the Top Three in the U.K. and Australia while peaking at 35 on the Billboard 200. This kicked off a series of Top 40 solo singles in Australia for Hayes, including July 2004's Top Three-charting "Popular," the first release from his synthesizer-heavy second album, The Tension & the Spark, which followed three months later. Although it failed to chart as highly abroad, the LP landed in the Top Ten in Australia and reached number 13 the U.K. The concert video A Big Night in with Darren Hayes captured him live at the Sydney Opera House on the associated tour. Parting ways with Columbia, Hayes signed with Powdered Sugar for August 2007's This Delicate Thing We've Made, a theatrical, not-as-radio-friendly double album recorded with Justin Shave, who had worked with such dance acts as the Shapeshifters and Superchumbo. It nevertheless landed in the Top 20 in both Australia and the U.K. Before releasing new solo material, Hayes recorded a pop album with producer/songwriter/singer Robert Conley under the moniker We Are Smug, which appeared in May 2009. He also contributed a cover of Tim Finn's "Not Even Close" to the Top Five-charting 2010 tribute album He Will Have His Way: The Songs of Tim & Neil Finn. Reflecting collaborations with over a half-dozen producers, his eclectic but pop-centric fourth solo album, Secret Codes & Battleships, arrived in October 2011, marking his debut on Mercury Records in Australia and on EMI in the U.K. He again charted well in Australia and the U.K., peaking at number ten and number 29, respectively. Despite the album's relative success, Hayes paused his music career to try and make a name for himself as a stand-up comedian. During the next several years, he studied with iconic L.A. improv school The Groundlings and posted the occasional singing performance for fans on social media. No new music recordings appeared until he resurfaced with a featured spot on Cub Sport's "I Never Cried So Much in My Whole Life" in late 2019. Hayes' first solo single in ten years, the giddy, self-produced dance-pop song "Let's Try Being in Love," saw release in January 2022. It was included on the full-length Homosexual, a personal set mostly populated with effervescent dance-pop that reflected on his teen experiences and lessons learned. Then in his fifties and still in a sentimental mood, he dedicated an early 2023 world tour to the 25th anniversary of Savage Garden's debut, performing its songs alongside solo hits and covers of some of his influences.
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