Daemion was raised in a musical household , with her parents being musicians . Her father is a musician , composer and vocalist . Daemion states " ever since I was a little girl he her father would have musical instruments around . He really encouraged me to do what I 'm doing . " Her mother is a singer as well , Daemion states " she her mother used to play guitar and write songs with her sister . I remember being about four and listening to her Janis Ian records and singing along and learning all the words . " Daemion 's first three records she bought were John Lennon , De La Soul and Mariah Carey , where she felt that Carey 's album was " overproduced " . She wrote and recorded her first song at the age of nine in an effort to help spread the message of ecological awareness . Daemion states " I 'd seen a documentary . I turned to Dad and said why ? and he had no answer for me so I thought if I wrote a song then maybe I could help the cause . I sang it into a tape recorder . Dad heard it and said ' do you realize what you 've just done ? ' I said ' no . ' He said : ' Amiel , you 've written a song . " She was introduced to the world of entertainment at the age of eleven performing the leading role alongside Russell Crowe in the 1991 feature film '' The Silver Brumby '' . She states " I always knew that all I wanted to do was perform . " Daemion 's music career began in 1995 when she was hired to do some backing vocals on a song the Australian producer Josh Abrahams was producing . Instead of just singing the song , she included her harmonies , melodies and lyrics and sung only two takes for Abrahams who then offered her a career in music . They released their first single together called " Addicted to Bass " in 1998 . The song had success and peaked in the top twenty on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart and was nominated for two ARIA Awards at the 1999 awards for " Single of the Year " and " Best Video " but lost to " The Day You Come " by Powderfinger and " Girls Like That ... " by Custard . With the success of " Addicted to Bass " , Daemion was then given a solo recording contract in 1998 at the age of nineteen with Festival Records and decided that Abrahams would be the best producer for her debut album . Daemion was confronted by delays while making the record and refused to be bothered by the record 's slow progress , so she used this time to write new songs both in Australia and in the United States where she composed and recorded a song , " Meet Me in the Red Room " , for the second '' Moulin Rouge ! '' soundtrack with Marius De Vries , under the direction of Baz Luhrmann . The new songs Daemion worked with changed the direction of the record and while a couple of the very early songs remained , the songs that were written during this period were replaced by the first demos . Daemion states " As I learnt more about the recording process and worked with different people my writing evolved and my vision for the record expanded . " What started out as a small independent record , it turned into a full-scale production and Daemion 's record became a major priority for her record company , which had merged to become Festival Mushroom Records since she had been signed
the 1999 awards
ARIA Music Awards of 1999
Amiel Daemion