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London, UK – 18 August 2016

#ShareTheLove for Natalie Gauci’s new album: The Real Journey

Australian Idol winner in 2007, singer/songwriter Natalie Gauci is launching a new album that she will take on tour. Teaming with Phundee, the UK-located rewards-based crowdfunding platform for arts and entertainment projects, Natalie is producing an interactive album – The Real Journey – that celebrates milestones in her meteoric, turbulent and exciting career over the decade since her popular success Down Under with hit record ‘Here I Am’.

Natalie chose to walk the ‘road less travelled’ from The Winner’s Journey, her first album in 2007, to her new project, The Real Journey: a path of meteoric rise to fame, followed by personal and professional struggles, leading to a redemptive and triumphant return to form and fitness – this time, on her own terms.

Determined to follow in the footsteps of Adele and Amy Winehouse, with music being soul and jazz influenced, Natalie moved to London in 2013 to pursue her dream of creating, recording and performing her own heart-felt songs and to realise her huge potential as an exceptional star in her own right. She is a darling of the music festival circuit, connecting with her growing number of fans with self-penned, passionate songs from the heart.

The Real Journey starts at Phundee

On 27 June 2016, Natalie launched an innovative crowdfunding campaign at Phundee for her new album – The Real Journey – with a promotional video and a live performance. The campaign reached its ‘green light’ milestone of 70% funding on 14 August 2016 with another three weeks to go to reach the full 100% funding target. Natalie is offering 35 rewards (ranging from £1 to £7500) in exchange for financial support from fans old and new, to suit every pocket from the youngest follower to the most committed superfan. She is producing the album in a unique interactive way: she is asking fans directly to vote for their favourite tracks to be included on The Real Journey. Natalie is taking her fans with her every step of the way.  She is launching a new single – ‘Time of Our Lives’ – on 19 August 2016 to celebrate the success of the Phundee crowdfunding campaign.

Natalie says: ‘By placing snippets of my back catalogue of songs on Soundcloudfor people to hear and vote for their favourites, songs that I have written, produced, recorded and unreleased will be mastered and collated into an album that fans will then receive.’ Fan can place their votes on Natalie Gauci’s website at: http://bit.ly/VoteNatalieTRJ

Ashon Spooner, CEO at Phundee, says: ‘Natalie’s story is truly incredible; she has now embarked on a new journey ... Using crowdfunding as a platform to engage her audience, Natalie’s fans are discovering, exploring and sharing her music in ways they couldn’t before.’

‘Share The Love’ Tour

Natalie will ‘Share the Love’ on tour, scheduled for late 2016: she will give fans the gift of new songs from The Real Journey, performed with heart, soul and passion, and take audiences to new levels of understanding and appreciation of her talent. The preparation for ‘Share the Love’ starts today, with a promotional video that will premiere at Natalie’s keynote gig at the O2’s Water Margin venue at 7.30 pm on 1 September 2016: get goosebumps at the gig by experiencing Natalie’s exceptional songwriting and outstanding performances. Hear real music from her real journey.

Viewers of London Live News on 8 August 2016 were treated to Natalie sharing a taste of her tour by giving an interview and performing live two new songs from The Real Journey collection: ‘Big Dream’ and ‘Happiness’.

Contact  To arrange an interview with Natalie Gauci, to book her for a live performance or to find out more information about The Real Journey album and her Share the Love concert tour, please contact Ashon Spooner via email to ashon@phundee.com or by telephone on +44 (0)7958 464375