Iva Davies

Quick Facts

Full Name	Iva Davies
Occupation	Pop Singer
Date Of Birth	May 22, 1955(1955-05-22)
Age	69
Birthplace	Australia
Country	Australia
Birth City	Wauchope
Horoscope	Gemini

Iva Davies Biography

Iva Davies is one of the most popular and richest Pop Singer who was born on May 22, 1955 in Australia, Wauchope, Australia. Known best as the lead singer of the new wave and synthopop band Icehouse, this Australian vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and composer also performed with such notable musicians as Elvis Costello, David Bowie, and Brian Eno.

He, Christopher Gordon, and Richard Tognetti composed the score of director Peter Weir‘s 2013 film Master and Commander, winning a 2004 APRA/AGSC Screen Music Award for their work.

Ivor Arthur Davies, AM (born 22 May 1955), known professionally as Iva Davies, is an Australian singer, songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. He is known for his distinctive singing voice, which was influenced by contemporary glam rock singers.

Davies first performed professionally as a 16-year-old musician with the Lucy Fields Jug Band, led by Lindsay Campbell around 1971. The band secured a recording contract with M7 Records, but the company changed hands shortly thereafter and the band’s album was never released. In 1974, Davies performed Handel’s Concerto for Oboe in E♭ major with Strathfield Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Richard Gill. Davies would later use his woodwind skills on some tracks with his band Icehouse, playing oboe on several albums and adding cor anglais to “Man of Colours”, the title track of their sixth studio album.

Before divorcing in 2010 after twenty years of marriage, he and his wife Tonia Kelly welcomed children named Brynn (born in 1993) and Evan (born in 1996).

Iva Davies Net Worth

Iva Davies is one of the richest Pop Singer from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Iva Davies 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

During his teenage years, he was a member of a group called the Lucy Fields Jug Band and was also an oboist with the Sydney Youth Orchestra. He later studied composition and oboe at the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music.

In the 1980s, he wrote and performed the score for a Sydney Dance Company and Sydney Opera House production of the ballet Boxes.

Ivor Arthur Davies was born on 22 May 1955 in Wauchope, New South Wales and was first attracted to bagpipes at the age of six. He played oboe with the Sydney Youth Orchestra and was a member of the Epping Boys High School Band where he also played the euphonium. He went on to be an oboe and composition student at the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music, but dropped out at age 21 to pursue a professional career.

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Who is Iva Davies Dating?

According to our records, Iva Davies married to Tonia Kelly. As of December 1, 2023, Iva Davies’s is not dating anyone.

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1985 also saw Davies win an APRA Music Award for Most Performed Australasian Music for Film for Razorback. Davies was an early adopter of the Fairlight which he used to compose the music of the film. His score has been described as “pioneering” and “an important contribution to Australian film scoring”.

Facts & Trivia

Iva Ranked on the list of most popular Pop Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Iva Davies celebrates birthday on May 22 of every year.

In 1988, Davies and co-collaborator John Oates won an APRA Music Award for the Icehouse song “Electric Blue” (from the Man of Colours album) in the Most Performed Australasian Popular Work category. On 25 January 1988, Icehouse performed “Electric Blue” at the Royal Command, New South Wales Bicentennial Concert in front of the Prince and Princess of Wales at the Sydney Entertainment Centre.

What nationality is Iva Davies?

Australian

Why did Iva Davies Write Great Southern Land?

Iva Davies of Icehouse wrote Great Southern Land as an antidote to Men at Work’s Down Under. FOUR classic rock songs are added to the National Film and Sound Archive, yet one of them was initially denied to be a song about Australia.

How old is Iva Davies Icehouse?

67 years (May 22, 1955)

Did Icehouse support David Bowie?

“For a band in Australia being asked to join him on tour, it was just incredible, a real honour. It doesn’t get much better than that.” Some of the British concerts for which Icehouse supported David Bowie drew crowds of more than 80,000. “He was massive.

When was Iva Davies born?

May 22, 1955 (age 67 years)