Nathan Foley
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Nathan Joel Foley (born 27 September 1979) is an Australian singer-songwriter and television personality. He was most famously known as one of the original members of the children's musical group Hi-5 and the associated television series of the same name from its inception from 1998 to 2008 before retiring after ten years with the group
Biography
Foley started singing professionally at 10 years old with bands singing Jazz, Soul, R&B, Pop, and Rock in clubs around Sydney. During his school years, Foley performed in the Coca-Cola Schools Spectacular for seven years as a soloist working with big bands and orchestra's and graduated from the Talent Development Project in 1997.
Through his mother's side, Foley is a descendant of the Yuin people, a group of Australian Aboriginal peoples from the South Coast of New South Wales.
Through the Talent Development Project, Foley was offered an audition for a children's musical group/television series at the ABC Studios, that group eventually became Hi-5, and Foley would become a mainstay member of the band until retiring after ten years.
In 2009, Foley completed a season of Jerry Springer: The Opera at the Sydney Opera House and played Kenickie in the Olivia Newton-John Foundation musical Grease on the Beach. He also performed as a soloist in 2009 at The V8 Supercars and World Masters Games, and sung the National Anthem at the Darling Harbour Australia Day Celebrations in 2010 in front of quarter of a million people.
Foley performed in the musical Mamma Mia!, touring Australia in 2010. He was also Co-Presenter of a show called Gathering on Foxtel’s Indigenous Network NITV. Also in 2011, he worked as a traffic reporter at the Australian Traffic network delivering traffic reports for Ten News, Mix 106.5, 101.7 WSFM, 2GO, Sea FM, Triple M, 2GB and 2UE.
Foley was a top 3 contestant on the Network 10 show I Will Survive.
In 2016, Foley won Princess cruises Entertainer of the year for his big band solo shows being the first Australian to win this title.
In 2019, Foley auditioned for The Voice and was placed on Delta Goodrem's team. Foley was eliminated in the first Knock-out rounds.
On 17 January 2020, Foley was pre-show guest performer for "The Original Wiggles Reunion Show For Bush Fire Relief" at the Castle Hill RSL Club.