Marcia Howard

Quick Facts

Full Name	Marcia Howard
Occupation	Folk Singer
Date Of Birth	Jan 5, 1961(1961-01-05)
Age	63
Birthplace	Warrnambool
Country	Australia
Birth City	Victoria
Horoscope	Capricorn

Marcia Howard Biography

Marcia Howard is one of the most popular and richest Folk Singer who was born on January 5, 1961 in Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia. She is perhaps most well-known for her participation in Goanna, a folk rock band from the 1970s and 1980s, which released albums called Butterfly, Burning in Rain, and Pearl.

Both she and She and Judith Durham are both popular Australian folk singers. were both well-known Australian folk singers.

Marcia Louise Howard (born 5 January 1961) is an Australian multi- instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, academic, and music educator. She was a long-term member of folk-rock group, Goanna (1980–85, 1986, 1998) on vocals and keyboards. The group was led by her older brother, Shane Howard, and included fellow vocalist, Rose Bygrave. Together with Goanna she performed live and recorded the albums, Spirit of Place, Oceania and Spirit Returns. Marcia sang lead vocals on Goanna’s ‘Dangerous Dancing’ on the Oceania album, written by Shane Howard. She wrote the songs ‘Angel Full of Grace’ (Seachange, ABC TV) ‘Song for East Timor’ and ‘Sorry’ for the Goanna ‘Spirit Returns’ album released in 1998. She appeared on Shane’s solo albums and tours for his various projects, Shane Howard and Friends, and Shane Howard Band.

Howard, on backing vocals and keyboards, joined her older brother, Shane’s folk-rock band, Goanna, in Melbourne in 1980. Goanna broke up in 1986 and Howard continued with her brother’s projects, Shane Howard and Friends (1986) and then Shane Howard Band (1987–88, 1991). She worked on Shane’s early solo albums and toured in his backing bands. Howard was a session musician on Joe Geia’s (ex-Shane Howard and Friends, Shane Howard Band) debut album, Yil Lull (1988), which includes the title track. She later worked on Kavisha Mazzella’s album, Fisherman’s Daughter (1998) and Dave Steel’s The Edge of the World (May 1999) before working on former Goanna band-mate, Rose Bygrave’s debut solo album, White Bird (mid-1999).. Marcia traveled to Asia and Europe and sang and worked overseas for a year in 1990. When she returned in 1991 she took up her first music teaching position at John Pujajankgka Pirin school in Mulan, Western Australia in the Great Sandy Desert. She married in 1992 and moved to Port Fairy. She worked with her brother Damian Howard in the 1990s, performing live and recording with him on his solo albums while raising her two children and running a Bed and Breakfast, Hanley House with her (now ex-husband) James Gubbins in Port Fairy.

Her brothers Shane Howard and Damian Howard were also musicians. The siblings were raised in Dennington, Victoria, Australia.

Marcia Howard Net Worth

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

She performed at many local weddings in her early years with her musical family.

Goanna’s band won three Aria Awards.

Marcia Louise Howard, was born in 1961 and raised in the rural town of Dennington (5 kilometres (3.1 mi) north west of Warrnambool) by Leo Francis Howard (April 1916–February 2010) and Honora “Teresa” nee Madden (c. 1924–2014), with five brothers, Eric, Stephen, Shane Shane Brendan and Damian, and her sister, Adele. Leo worked at the Nestle’s factory, which manufactured coffee and powdered milk; Teresa was a radio announcer, secretary, actress, pianist and singer. Howard later recalled, “We were known as ‘The Von Trapp Family of the Western District’, because we played and sang at everyone’s weddings, parties, kitchen teas, celebrations. Mum on piano and all of us singing, you know, Mary Poppins songs, Sound of Music.” She was educated at St John’s Dennington Primary School, St Anne’s (later incorporated into Emmanuel College), Warrnambool; she relocated first to Melbourne to Australian Catholic University, to complete a Diploma of Education (Music) in 1981.

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In October 2017 she released her next album, Everything Reminds Me, and was joined in the studio by Issac Barter, Lee Morgan on guitar, Justin Olsson on drums, Matiss Schubert on mandolin and fiddle, and Richard Tankard on keyboards. When not touring or recording, Howard is an academic and works as a music and performing arts teacher/lecturer; she has taught in primary, secondary and tertiary institutions. In 2018 Marcia wrote the show, House of Song with Sherri McIver and Ian Roberts and toured Australia performing the theatre show at festivals and theatres with her musicians, Liam Gubbins (her son) and Matiss Schubert. Marcia is currently completing her Ph.D. in Creative Arts and Communication at Deakin University about her life as a musician in the Australian music industry over the past four decades. Her new album will be released later this year produced by Liam Gubbins (Gubmusic).

Facts & Trivia

Marcia Ranked on the list of most popular Folk Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Marcia Howard celebrates birthday on January 5 of every year.