For Nashville-based Australian singer-songwriter Imogen Clark, music is many things-a weapon, a medicine, a superpower. As someone who has battled anxiety her whole life, music is the secret sauce that transforms her into the globetrotting belter of deeply emotional anthems, a swaggering live performer who proudly wears her deepest emotions with bracing vulnerability.
Today, she stands as a testament to the power of transcending one's familiar boundaries, ajourney fueled by her roots and an unwavering ambition that has taken her from the teenager who honed her chops playing Western Sydney bars to global stages from the US to Europe.
From an early age, Imogen's life was steeped in music. From eight years old, she was trained as an opera singer, the foundation for her roof-raising vocal power and range. By twelve, she had transitioned to the guitar and piano for the start of her songwriting journey.
A proud road dig, Imogen has toured relentlessly since her teenage years, crisscrossing Australia, the UK, Europe and the US with artists including The Tallest Man on Earth, BOWEN *YOUNG, Steve Poltz, Jim Lauderdale and Shania Twain.
The new album The Art of Getting Through, proudly genre-agnostic, encapsulates Imogen’s range as a songwriter and recording artist. The lyrics are her most bracingly personal and vulnerable, the music more powerful and anthemic than ever. From navigating her identity to touching on the shadows of an eating disorder, each of Imogen's songs unfold like a chapter in a deeply personal diary, capturing moments, memories, and confessions from her journey.
After writing over a hundred songs, she embarked on a musical pilgrimage, traveling to cities that have inspired her musically-London, Nashville, and Los Angeles. This journey took her to some of the world’s most iconic recording spaces including Peter Frampton’s Studio Phenix in Nashville, Abbey Road in London, and East West in Los Angeles, where the legendary Pet Sounds was recorded.
It’s no wonder collaborators from Jim Lauderdale to Colin Hay to Steve Poltz to members of Gang of Youths, Bright Eyes, Tom Petty’s Heartbreakers, Elvis Costello’s Imposters, Dawes, My Morning Jacket and more have lined up to collaborate with an artist whose dynamism, relentless creativity and striving to be the most fully evolved version of herself, both in and out of the studio, shows her as a force to be reckoned with, and one who is just getting started.
