Daryl Braithwaite is one of Australia’s award winning premier performers
In a distinguished career spanning more than 35 years, Daryl Braithwaite is one of Australia’s award winning premier performers.
Initial success as a singer for Daryl Braithwaite came with Sherbet, a band which forever remains in the history books of Australian music. Throughout the 70’s, Sherbet produced 20 national Top 40 singles and were the first Australian band to top the one million dollar mark in album sales in the country with a total of 15 albums and 30 singles to the credit with songs like “Summer Love” becoming the highest selling single of 1975. And, “Howzat” not only a #1 hit in Australia, but also achieved #2 in England.
Following the success of Sherbet, Daryl Braithwaite returned to the Australian music scene in a very big way as a solo performer in 1988 with the release of the phenomenally successful album “Edge” which spent well over a year in the national charts. Edge spawned four hit singles with “As The Days Go By”, “All I Do”, “Let Me Be”, and the gold single “One Summer”. The album itself topped the ARIA charts in 1989 and became the highest selling CD in CBS Australia’s history. During this period, Daryl Braithwaite toured extensively not only in Australia, but also in Canada, USA, UK and Europe adding the to incredible sales figures for “Edge”.