Few knew about the darkness in Stan's past - the violent upbringing, the sexual abuse and the struggle to be more than just a survivor. What followed were some of the highest highs, and the lowest of lows. When Stan won Australian Idol in 2009, he was thrown head-first into the deep end of the music industry. Stan Walker is one of the finest singers to emerge from Australia and New Zealand Aotearoa in a generation. He currently lives in Auckland, New Zealand.An extraordinary memoir about family, love, belief, redemption and the power of forgiveness. Walker has also appeared in the feature films Mount Zion (2013), Born to Dance (2015) and Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016). He's won the Waiata Maori Award for Radio Airplay Record of the Year five times, in 2010, 2011 and then three consecutive years in a row from 2013 to 2015. Along the way, Walker has received eight New Zealand Music Awards and five ARIA Music Award nominations.
Stan has earned eight gold and five platinum singles as well as one double platinum and one triple platinum single in New Zealand.
Over the past decade Walker has become one of Aotearoa's most respected figures, and continues to devote much of his life to his family, his people, and to maoritanga.
Walker was the winner of the seventh and final season of Australian Idol in 2009, and was a judge on the first and second season of The X Factor NZ, in 20. He was born in Melbourne and grew up between Tauranga, New Zealand, and Ocean Shores, New South Wales. Stan Walker is a trans-Tasman musician, performing artist and actor. It's an important and un-putdownable read. Abuse and addiction, poverty and excess, cancer and discrimination - Stan tells it all with startling honesty and insight, and with a wonderful sense of warmth and hope. Stan's is a story of survival against impossible odds. It's a tale of a young Maori boy from Tauranga finding his place on the world stage while never forgetting who he is and where he came from. It's a story about forgiveness and a journey to redemption. Stan Walker: My Story is a personal reflection on life growing up in a family where love and violence were horribly entwined. An extraordinary memoir about family, love, belief, redemption and the power of forgiveness.
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