Pat Powell and the Funk Soul Sounds

With a career that spans over four decades and right across the globe Pat Powell is the artist that everyone wants to work with, to name a few theres Margaret Erlich, Jenny Morris, Paul Mac, James Freud & Michael Hutchences Max Q.
Hailing from the close-knit and highly musical Jamaican community of 1960s/70s Bristol, Pat toured extensively throughout Europe before descending on Sydney with great force in the 80s. 
Filling bars and clubs across Australia with his pioneering acts Caribbe, Club Ska, LoveTown, Ten Wedge and Neptune St, within a couple of years he was one of Australias most in demand studio vocalists.
Pat has supported James Brown, Queen, The Eurhythmics, Boy George, Crowded House, Spit Enz, Horace Andy and Luciano, Tina Arena, George Benson and more. In the late eighties & nineties he toured Australia, Asia & Europe as Kylie Minogues primary backing vocalist and since then in more recent years hes toured extensively throughout Australia, Canada, America, Turkey and the UK. Pat has recorded over 18 singles, featured on over seven albums, and as an actor been in a myriad of classic Australian films but finally heres his debut album About Time released in June of 2018.
Pat Powell singing for The Melbourne Ska Orchestra has been nominated for 5 Arias and taken 2 of them home, plus 4 nominations for The Victorian Age Music Awards and won 3. The documentary about Pat  Powell by Melbourne based director Fiona Cochrane recently premiered at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival.