Anthony

Biography

Anthony Callea was the runner-up in the 2004 season of Australian Idol. Anthony holds the record for the highest selling single and fastest selling single in Australia for his debut single a rendition of Andrea Bocelli ‘The Prayer’. The single went straight to number one on its release and stayed there of a period of 5 weeks.

Anthony is from Melbourne Australia and before entering Australian Idol he worked as a singing teacher in a performing arts school by day and performed at venues in Melbourne at night.

Since leaving the Australian idol competition, he has become one of Australia's most popular artists. So far he has released two top ten selling albums, with one reaching the number one spot in Australia. The singles from the album also charted well with two getting to number one. On his second album ‘A New Chapter’ Anthony demonstrated his song writing skills by co-writing all but one of the tracks on the album.