Brooke Fraser

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Brooke Gabrielle Fraser (born 15 December 1983 in Wellington, New Zealand) is an award-winning New Zealand singer-songwriter and worship leader at Hillsong United and Hillsong Church. Early life Fraser is the eldest of the three children born to former All Black, Bernie Fraser and his wife Lynda Fraser. She grew up in Naenae, Lower Hutt and attended Dyer Street School then Naenae Intermediate and Naenae College. Fraser started taking piano lessons at seven years of age, continuing until seventeen. She started writing songs at age twelve and taught herself the acoustic guitar at fifteen. Notably, she has never taken any singing lessons. She performed at Parachute, an annual New Zealand music festival, and has continued to do so each year since 2000 - including a special guest performance in 2007. Fraser was a presenter on a cable television show. She began writing for the Soul Purpose magazine at age fifteen and was later made editor in 2002. She gave up her job as editor shortly after moving to Auckland in late 2002 in order to pursue her music career.[1] Awards * Most promising Woman Musician Award & Overall winner - 1999 Hutt Valley Pepsi Smokefree Rockquest regional finals * Best Female Solo Artist: What To Do With Daylight - 2004 NZ Music Awards * Breakthrough Artist of the Year: What To Do With Daylight - 2004 NZ Music Awards * Most Performed Work on NZ radio in the Last 12 Months: Better - Apra Silver Scroll Awards 2004 * Australasian Performi

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