Biography
Elana Stone launched her musical journey at age 14 during her enrollment at the Newtown School of Performing Arts. Throughout her teenage years she performed as a busker in malls while also appearing at weddings, bar mitzvahs, and book launches supported by the school. She later studied at the Canberra School of Jazz and completed a Bachelor of Music, where she formed connections with several musicians who would join her on stage in subsequent projects. She assembled the Elana Stone Quartet, which sometimes performed as a quintet depending on personnel, and briefly fronted the 18-piece swing outfit Rhino Factory. Recognition arrived in 2004 with a Musicoz Award for Best Jazz Artist, followed in 2005 by a National Jazz Award at the Wangaratta Jazz Festival. Those honors led to a tour with the Cat Empire and membership in Jackson Jackson’s backing choir, the Jackson Jackson 5. Around the same period she issued her debut album, In the Garden of Wild Things. Work on a second album with the reconfigured Elana Stone Band began the next year, yet sessions were interrupted by a European tour, her temporary relocation from Sydney to Melbourne, the breakup of two band members, and the marriage of two others. The initial songs were discarded and replaced with new material that appeared in 2009 as Your Anniversary. That same year she collaborated with her brother Jake Stone of Bluejuice in the duo the Break-Up, without either of their primary bands dissolving.
Albums
Singles
