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A raw and tender voice, a multi-instrumentalist song writer and screen composer, Ilan Kidron’s star has risen dramatically in the last two years as front man of The Potbelleez, picking up 3 ARIA award nominations in 2008. But his music and film career flourished way before he joined the dance music world.

He picked up the guitar, piano, flute at a wee age and has now finetuned his extensive repertoire to include cabaret, jazz, gypsy swing, classical ensemble work, blues, dance and psych rock. He has also acted in and/or composed for award winning films. Highly regarded by his fellow artists, Ilan is in high demand as a co-writer, performer and session musician. He has azBA in Film & Music at the University of NSW -Graduated from an Orchestration degree at the Conservatorium of Music -Studied at the International Music Ashram in Varanassi, India -Diploma in Screen Composition at The Australian Film Television and Radio School

He graced the stage as lead singer and arranger of Glass, a popular, massively-booked Sydney trad band. As musical director of glass, he worked with James Morrison and other award winning musicians including Aron Ottignon, Jonathan Zwartz, Gerard Masters, Tom O’Halloran, Haydn Walker, Eddie Bronson and many others.

The last year and a half has been spent touring on the road with The Potbelleez after their massive success with the song “Don’t Hold Back” which Ilan co-wrote, sings and plays that unforgettable acoustic guitar lick. The track spent an incredible 17 weeks at No.1 in the ARIA dance charts and 29 weeks in the ARIA Top 40 singles chart. It also went platinum, selling over 100,000 units and gained the band three ARIA nominations for 2008 in the categories of ‘Highest Selling Single’, ‘Breakthrough Artist – Single’ and ‘Best Dance Release’. The Potbelleez follow up single "Are you with me" went gold. Ilan’s hectic touring schedule has included over 400 gigs in Australia, US, Canada, Germany, Ireland and New Zealand in the last few years.

"It comes from everywhere…music turns us inside out and can reveal our true nature" he told Rolling Stone's Australian editor Dan Lander. "Through music our reality is at the same time enhanced and dissolved"

Ilan is truly theatrical on stage and that has come out in some of his biggest performances including Channel Ten’s Sydney Harbour New Years Eve celebrations which was watched by over 2.2 million viewers nationally. Also the 2008 Australian MTV Awards and playing in front of 35,000 people at the opening of the A League Soccer Grand Final at Sydney Football Stadium and the Australian Idol Final 2008.

He has multilingual skills too. He sings in different languages – English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Italian to name a few.

The films Ilan has composed for have a stack of accolades include an OSCAR Nominee for Best Short Film for INJA, which also won Best Short Film at Nashville Independent Film Festival, Best Foreign Short at LA Shorts Fest, Best Short Film at St Kilda Film Festival and Best Short Fiction at the AFI Awards. The short ALL SHOOK UP, directed by his wife Samantha Rebillet was a Finalist at TropFest, and THE BIRTHDAY, also by Rebillet, won Best Film at Bondi Short Film Festival, Kaleidoscope Awards and the WOW Awards plus again a Finalist in Trop Fest. He was also winner for Best Music Educational Corporate Film ROLL YOUR OWN at the AGSC Awards 2002 for and a Nominee for Best Music Animation FISH FACTORY at AGSC Awards 2002, Best Song In a Film SQUARE SPACE at AGSC Awards 2001 and Best Song In a Film MELANCHOLY at AGSC Awards in 2001. Plus a Finalist in a UK Songwriting Competition in 2005 and was nominated for Best Jazz Song for MusicOz 2005. Ilan also produced music for TVCs such as Mitsubishi, Panasonic, McDonalds, KFC, Coke, Lifesavers, Royal Blind Society, RYO, Mentos, Telstra and NSW Tourism.

Right now he is about to do the Basement Jaxx tour with the Potbelleez and is working on the next potbelleez album with the rest of the gang. He is also loving the co-writing with Damien Leith for his next intoxicating album and dj/producer Tommy Trash on massive new dance anthems.