Carrie Melbourne

Carrie Melbourne is an artist, writer, performer and lay pastoral assistant

Carrie has been a musician most of her life, with a pedigree of both classical training in music and success as a session and performance musician with British artists Babylon Zoo, Tricky and Mike Oldfield. Not to mention a solo career with her own band a few years ago. However, as someone who has found it imperative to center her life around God, she has launched a new career as a solo Christian artist.

As a professional musician, Carrie has performed world-wide with well-known names such as Babylon Zoo, Tricky, and Mike Oldfield. (She played on his Tubular Bells III premiere at Horseguards Parade London 1998, his European tour 1999 and his Millennium Bell show Berlin, 1999.)

Carrie has had several television appearances in the United Kingdom, including The Jools Holland Show in 1997 with Tricky, and again in 1999 with Mike Oldfield. She has also been seen on MTV, Top of the Pops and Channel 4's The White Room with Babylon Zoo.

In the United States she has been on the David Letterman show and the Chris Rock show in Los Angeles with the band Tricky.

In Europe her appearance include major European TV and radio stations with Babylon Zoo, including the Danish Grammy Awards!

Carrie also had an original band in the 90's - Melbourne. She sang and played bass guitar and Chapman stick (see photo). Melbourne released two albums "Indian Ocean" and "Night Star".

Carrie now works as a lay pastoral assistant in the Church and contributes regularly singing and playing church music.

She has recently released her new album 'Et Spiritu Sancti', a collection of spiritually inspiring songs mostly based on reworkings of traditional hymns and songs.

Since releasing the album she has appeared on 'Soul and Inspiration' in interviews and music features for the show, as well as having her song 'Breath of Prayer' featured on 'Something Understood', the award winning BBC Radio 4 programme with Mark Tully.

You can find out about Carrie at her website, [1]

She currently lives in England with her husband Doug Melbourne who is also a musician, and her son (a budding performer).