Kellie Knight and the Daze

And the Australian music industry agrees, awarding the band Best Jazz song, Best Urban/Funk song, Best World/Reggae song, as well as nominating Knight as Female Vocalist of the Year for the 2015 NCEIA Music Awards. Brought up on a healthy diet of pop vinyl, Knight discovered jazz in her early twenties, both of which can be heard through her accessible lyrics, well-crafted pop hooks and potent blend of whisky-smoke jazz subtlety and full-power soul vocal. Knight’s devotion to music runs deep with formal training beginning at just 11 and later, extensive travels in pursuit of honing her craft with significant stints in San Francisco, the Caribbean and Varnasi, India, where she studied under the tutelage of one of the country’s top University vocal lecturers.