Clare Bowditch

Clare Bowditch (born 1975) is an Australian musician, actor, radio presenter and business entrepreneur. Bowditch won an ARIA Award in 2006 (Best Female) and was nominated for a Logie Award for her work on the TV series Offspring in 2012. She has had Top Ten albums, been named Rolling Stone's Woman of the Year, YEN Young Woman of the Year (Music), toured with Gotye and Leonard Cohen, written for Harpers Bazaar, Rolling Stone and the Drum She currently hosts an Australian Music Show on Qantas airlines in-flight audio channel. Bowditch has released seven albums in total and has been recording her eighth album, with a release date yet to be determined. Her last, The Winter I Chose Happiness, was released on 14 September 2012. In May 2012, Bowditch released the single, "You Make Me Happy", her first Top 40 song, which was featured in the TV series Offspring.Bowditch is currently an ambassador for the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA), PPCA and Smiling Mind. She is also a member of the Victorian State Government's Live Music Round Table Panel. She was the secretary of the Music Victoria Board until 2012. In May 2015, Bowditch joined forces with Joost Bakker to put on one of the largest food-waste-free business conferences in the world, in Melbourne, Australia.