Todays Birthday 19/8
Today's Birthday, August 19: Australian musician Missy Higgins ( 1983 - )
Missy Higgins 奮起させるd a whole 範囲 of Australian songwriters but her 影響（力） also 延長するd to some of the world's biggest pop 星／主役にするs.
This year a ビデオ of chart-topping American teen Billie Eilish was discovered that showed her covering Higgins' song The Secret at just 11 years old.
Another high-profile fan of the songwriter is English 攻撃する，衝突する 製造者 Ed Sheeran, who after に引き続いて her music in his teens, asked her to …を伴って him on his Australian 小旅行する in 2018.
"He saw a live concert of 地雷 on TV, a show I did at the オペラ House, and he really liked my music and 明らかに went out straight away and bought all my albums and all my EPs and became a big fan," Higgins told AAP.
Melissa Morrison Higgins was born in Melbourne in 1983. She started 令状ing songs as a 十代の少年少女, spending a lot of time in the music rooms at Geelong Grammar.
In year 10 she 記録，記録的な／記録するd the song All For Believing for a school 事業／計画（する）. Impressed, her sister Nicola sent it into ３倍になる j's 明らかにするd 競争.
"Then I just forgot about it. But I won! And everything took off from there. The song got played on the 無線で通信する, I got 調印するd, and it was all thanks to her," Higgins told the Sydney Morning 先触れ（する）.
She 調印するd with Eleven in Australia and when the 選び出す／独身 started getting airplay in the US she nabbed a を取り引きする Warner Bros.
Her first EP reached the ARIA 最高の，を越す 50. Higgins' second EP, Scar, debuted at No.1 in 2004, and was すぐに followed by her first chart-topping album, The Sound of White.
Scar won Higgins' first ARIA Award in 2004 for best pop 解放（する） before The Sound of White collected another five in 2005, 含むing for best album.
Higgins' second album, On a （疑いを）晴らす Night, 解放（する）d in 2006, again topped the charts and 伸び（る）d Higgins another ARIA, this time for best 女性（の） artist.
She took a break from 小旅行するing in 2010 to 熟考する／考慮する indigen ous culture at the University of Melbourne before making her 事実上の／代理 debut as Annie in the Australian film Bran Nue Dae.
The に引き続いて year, she travelled to Nashville to 記録，記録的な／記録する her third album, The Ol' Razzle Dazzle.
Her fourth studio album Oz was 解放（する）d in 2014 and featured cover 見解／翻訳／版s of Australian musicians like Paul Kelly.
In 2018 she 解放（する）d her fifth album Solastalgia, which is a 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 coined by Australian professor Glenn Albrecht that Higgins latched on to while reading an article about 気候 change.
Higgins has spent かなりの time playing for political and charitable 原因（となる）s.
She and partner Dan 物陰／風下 have a son and daughter.
