20th Anniversary International Year of the Family Australia
The Bridge Of Love Project
  • Home
  • About
  • 1994
    • Original Artists>
      • Clint Beattie
      • Colin Buchanan
      • Bushwackers
      • TC Cassidy
      • Greg Champion
      • Beccy Cole
      • Graeme Connors
      • Crosby SIsters
      • Smoky Dawson
      • Dead Ringer Band
      • Shanley Del
      • Pat Drummond
      • Steve Gibson
      • Jim Haynes
      • Gina Jeffreys
      • Genni Kane
      • Lee Kernaghan
      • Anne Kirkpatrick
      • Darcy Le Year
      • Jimmy Little
      • Angie Marquis
      • Brent Parlane
      • Rosemary Rae
      • Jane Saunders
      • Gina Timms
    • Original Recording
    • Original Production
    • Original Documentary
    • Original Video Clip
    • Original Sponsors
    • 1994-1995 Awards
  • 2014
    • Anniversary Re-Release
    • 2014 Artist Line-Up>
      • Darren Coggan
      • Beccy Cole
      • Adam Harvey
      • Gina Jeffreys
      • Lee Kernaghan
      • Luke O'Shea
      • Melinda Schneider
      • Crosby Sisters
      • Chris E Thomas
    • 2014 Supergroup>
      • Bill Chambers
      • Pete Drummond
      • Ian Lees
    • 2014 Production Team>
      • Garth Porter - Recording Producer
      • Ted Howard - Recording Engineer
      • Warren Lynch - Video Producer
      • Melanie Williamson - Executive Producer
    • Media>
      • News Stories
      • Press Releases
      • Jon Wolfe - Media Coordinator
    • Business Sponsors
  • Join The Family
    • Sponsor a child from $30/month>
      • Become a 'Virtual Foster Carer' online
  • Contact
BRIDGE OF LOVE 2014 - COUNTRY MUSIC ARTIST LINE-UP - GINA JEFFREYS

GINA JEFFREYS

Picture
It’s now more than two decades since Gina Jeffreys won the Toyota Star Maker Quest, marking the start of a remarkable career that’s not only taken Gina to the top of the country music industry — where she still reigns supreme — but continued to bring new surprises and successes for this talented and vivacious woman. After releasing her first single Slipping Away through BMG Music, Gina signed a record deal with ABC Music, and released her first single for the label Two Stars Fell in 1993. The song went straight to No.1 and the career of Gina Jeffreys was launched. Her debut album The Flame went platinum, and the following January Gina won her first Golden Guitar for Female Vocalist of the Year.

As one of the most popular of all country music stars in 1994, Gina still found time to participate in the Bridge of Love Project that year, recording her vocal along with her male 'King of Country' counterpart, Lee Kernaghan, and appearing in the documentary and video.

During her time with ABC Country, Gina enjoyed a dream run. She released five albums, each one rocketing to the top of the Country charts, and along the way gathered an impressive collection of four Golden Guitars, four MO Awards for live performance, an APRA Award, two Victorian Country Music Awards and CMT Video of the Year for Dancin’ With Elvis. Gina’s albums — The Flame, Up Close, Somebody’s Daughter, Christmas Wish, Angel and The Best of Gina Jeffreys … So Far — have all been smash hits with her loyal band of fans, collecting a steady stream of Gold and Platinum awards.

Gina has also been one of the most in-demand performers in Australia, both live and on television, appearing at everything from civic receptions to Carols by Candlelight, a string of corporate functions and, of course, all the major country music festivals Australia-wide. International highlights have included performing at Fan Fair in Nashville, on a New Year’s Eve Television Special in Shanghai, China, to over 2 billion people, and the Tour of Duty Concert in East Timor.

Her tours are always sell-out successes, with the fans seemingly unable to get enough of Gina’s performances. And Gina is the first to admit she leads a charmed life — performing the music she loves, and sharing the experience with the love of her life, husband Rod McCormack.

But magic doesn’t just happen by itself — Gina has worked incredibly hard over the past decade to develop her career, and continues to emerge with fresh new sounds and stunning new looks to delight her fans and win over new supporters for her music.

And as a hard-working patron of the Australian Leukaemia Foundation, Gina has quietly been helping sick children for over seven years.

In January 2003, Gina and Rod became the proud parents of a baby boy Jackson. Since then Gina has been taking some time out of the limelight to enjoy her new role…"I wasn't just enjoying every second of the simple things in life, like putting our baby to bed and reading him bedtime stories, singing him lullabies. I am so glad that I did that. You can’t get those years back. But while our son Jackson is the reason I stopped music for a while, he is also the reason I started again. My heart has never sung like this before".

Gina began to slowly start recording what became her exquisite album ‘WALKS OF LIFE’. The album, produced by Rod, showcased a new vocal maturity on a collection of songs that are near and dear to her heart. Gina co-wrote five of the songs.

Gina Jeffreys participates in the Bridge of Love Project by kind courtesy of Doug Trevor Management.

Official Gina Jeffreys website: www.ginajeffreys.com.au.

The Bridge of Love Project is an official Australian awareness-raising endeavour for the 20th Anniversary International Year of the Family, an initiative of the United Nations. Australia celebrates National Families Week 15-21 May 2014. The UN-designated theme for this year's international campaign is: 'Stronger Families, Stronger Communities'.

All proceeds from the Bridge of Love Project are directed towards Barnardos Australia for their continuing work with vulnerable children and young people in our communities.
SPONSOR AN AUSSIE CHILD FOR $30/MONTH
Aiming to create 1,000+ new 'virtual foster carers' in 2014.
Individuals, businesses, community and sporting groups, schools... sponsor a child through Barnardos Australia and change one child's future for just $30/month.
‘Families, as basic units of social life, are major agents of sustainable development at all levels of society’. United Nations General Assembly resolution 47/273.
Picture
20th Anniversary of the International Year of the Family
Picture
Website produced and sponsored by Ginormous Marketing.
Original 'Bridge of Love' illustration by Priscilla Nielsen, used by permission.