One of Australia’s best-loved singers, Daryl Braithwaite boasts a warm, wide-open voice that feels like a generous embrace. Born in Melbourne in 1949 before relocating to Sydney, he cycled through local bands as a teen until joining Sherbet at age 21. Fronting that band gave Braithwaite an opportunity to perfect both his booming range and soul-influenced depth of feeling. Giving Sherbet their biggest hit with 1976’s disco-inflected psychedelic flashback “Howzat”, he made his solo debut with 1979’s Out on the Fringe before devoting the 1980s to his band, then rebranded as The Sherbs (and later sampled on the Daft Punk track “Contact”). The following decade anointed Braithwaite as a full-blown solo star, thanks to his chart-topping 1991 version of the Rickie Lee Jones/Walter Becker ballad “The Horses”, a sing-along staple of Australian gatherings to this day. He again flexed his status as a powerhouse vocalist with 2020’s surging heartbreak anthem “Love Songs”.