Raised by hippy parents on the beaches of New South Wales, the songstress Lenka
received acting lessons from Cate Blanchett and initially found minor fame on
Australian TV in drama series GP and soap opera Home and Away. Inspired by her
jazz musician father, she turned to music as a vocalist and keyboard player in
electro-dance group Decoder Ring before she moved to the States, charmed the
socks off industry big-wigs at the South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas
and was snapped up Epic Records. Full of kooky, bitter-sweet pop harmonies,
debut album Lenka (2008) introduced h...