Jan Cornall

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jan Cornall
Occupation	Songwriter
Date Of Birth	Aug 17, 1950(1950-08-17)
Age	74
Birthplace	Melbourne
Country	Australia
Birth City	Victoria
Horoscope	Leo

Jan Cornall Biography

Jan Cornall is one of the most popular and richest Songwriter who was born on August 17, 1950 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Born in Melbourne, Australia, Jan Cornall started performing at young age in school plays and musicals. She studied speech and drama at Melbourne Teacher’s college under the tutelage of Max Gillies. She began her performance career as a founding member of the Tribe experimental theatre group in 1968. During this time they performed ‘Happenings’, ‘Guerilla Theatre’ and ‘Street Theatre’, leading the Vietnam War moratorium marches in Melbourne with a series of street performances. The Tribe group were regulars at the famous La Mama Theatre (Melbourne) where they met and later merged with the Australian Performing Group (APG) at the Pram Factory Theatre.

In 1973, Cornall performed alongside Red Symonds, lead guitarist of Skyhooks, in the play The Ride Across Lake Constance by German absurdist Peter Handke. Following this time, Cornall travelled overseas, performing solo as a singer/songwriter, before joining the all-girl Latin jazz band, Baba Yaga, in Portland Oregon. She recorded the album On The Edge with the band as vocalist and percussionist.

Jan Cornall Net Worth

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

Jan Cornall (born 1950) is an Australian singer, comedian and writer. Known for her contributions to queer music through the group Baba Yaga during the 1970s and the hit musical Failing in Love Again (1979), Jan Cornall was a leader in the women’s comedy and cabaret resurgence of the early 1980s. She has contributed to Australian community theatre, addressing issues facing regional and rural women, and had a long involvement in forging cross cultural links with Indonesian and Australian writers and artists.

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In 2000, Cornall worked as writer on a unique project with Australian Tibetan musician Tenzing Tsewang, dramatising the story of his journey out of Tibet. Directed by Brian Joyce, Hanging Onto the Tail of a Goat was the first solo theatre production by a Tibetan performer in Australia. It showed in Melbourne, Wollongong, Penrith and Sydney’s Opera House Studio. At the same time she began teaching writing workshops and retreats in communities, writers centres and colleges. In 2004 Jan ran her first writers retreat in Ubud, Bali in conjunction with the inaugural Ubud Writers and Readers Festival.

Facts & Trivia

M. Ranked on the list of most popular Songwriter. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Jan Cornall celebrates birthday on August 17 of every year.

In January 2008 Jan took part in Gang Festival in Sydney, an artist-run exchange between Australian and Indonesian artists and wrote, produced and performed in a stage version of Take Me To Paradise, with Indonesian performers: artist Jumaadi, poet Sitok Srengenge, musicians Deva Permana and Wendy Anggerani for OzASia Festival in Adelaide.