Biography on Brooke Fraser by Alyssa

WALT: summarise information and write a biography

1993, was the year that a singer/songwriter was born. Who knew she would change people’s lives with her incredible musical skills.

Brooke Gabrielle Fraser is her full name, but she is better known as just Brooke Fraser. She was born on 15th December in Wellington, New Zealand. She was born to mother Linda Fraser and father Bernie Fraser a former All Black. Brooke is a christian and went to church regularly as a child. She is the eldest of three children. She grew up in Naenae, Lower hut, Wellington. The schools that she attended was Dyer Street school, Naenae Intermediate, Naenae College.

Fraser was really into music from a young age. She took piano lessons for ten years from the age of 7-17. When she was 12 years old she started writing songs and  taught herself the acoustic guitar at 15. Although she is very successful and has an amazing voice she never took singing lessons. 

When she was 15 she had began writing for a magazine called ‘Soul Purpose’. In early 2002 she was made editor for Soul Purpose magazine.Then she gave up her job being the editor after moving to Auckland in late 2002 so she could fulfill all her wildest dreams and hopes of becoming a singer. While Brooke was in Auckland Scotty Pearson, the drummer for Elemeno P set up a meeting with producer Matty J for her and he became Brooke’s manager.

The first song she ever published and recorded was ‘Better’ when she was about 17. So far she has released three Albums. The first album she ever recorded was ‘What to do with daylight’. It was released in New Zealand in late 2003. The album sold over 105,000 copies and was at the top of the charts for sixty two weeks. All of the singles in the album reached the top twenty in NZ’s single chart. 

Two years later she travelled to Africa and visited Rwanda and Tanzania. In Tanzania she went to visit the person she was sponsoring. Then when she was in Rwanda she met a young child called Albertine  and wrote a song about her and named it ‘Albertine’. After she discussed it over with her manager and crew they decided to call the album ‘Albertine’. On December 4th the album was released in New Zealand. Then on the 31st of March 2005 it was released internationally.

The most  popular and chart breaking album she has made in her life so far is ‘Flags’! It was a very popular hit, one of her singles in Flags called ‘Something in the water’ reached the number one on the R.I.A.N.Z singles chart in 2010!

Recently after she released her first album she moved to Sydney (where she has lived since 2004). On the 17th of March 2008 she married Scott Lingertwood in Sydney, which changed her last name to Lingertwood but her recording and stage name is still ‘Brooke Fraser”. She wrote a few songs called ‘Desert song’ and ‘Hosana’ for a Church since most of her songs are christian. So the Church re-named it self to Lingertwood Church after her.

Brooke has been a World Vision Artist Associate since 2001. She visited a few places in Africa as mentioned before. In 2006 she advertised the World Vision 40 hour famine with Petra Baghurst and Tau from Spacifix. The 40 hour famine raised a lot of money for the people in Africa. Brooke also sponsors eleven children through World Vision and helps fundraise. Brooke Lingertwood is a singer-songwriter born in New Zealand she has released three albums and there will probably be more to come!

By Alyssa, Year 6, 2011