Australia's forgotten pop princesses

Its a well known fact that for actors in soap operas being able to act is not their only skill. Many of the stage school alumni's have a multitude of performance skills in the bank, and it's only natural that after there time on the telly box has come to an end they might want to try a new direction.

Now with their beautiful faces and large fan base already you would think that making the transition into pop music would be a breeze for our Australian lovelies, however it is not. Of course some people manage it, Kylie being a classic example, Holly Vallance for a time, Delta Goodrem is dating a Jonas Brother now so she's landed on her feet, but for as many successes there are twice as many failures so I am going to take this time to remember the music that never made it across the world from our Australian stars.




Introducing Bec Cartwright, Bec played Hayley in Home and Away and was one half of my favourite ever Home and Away couple Hayley and Noah (RIP Noah, I loved you as much as Hayley did!) This is her single All Seats Taken, i'm not really sure what that means, if its a cinema? or a bus? Or anything with seats? She later goes on to sing that she's 'all booked up for you' so I can only assume its a hotel or restaurant. This reached number 10 in the Australian chart but her album came in at a dissapointing 21 so it was never released in the UK. Bec no longer acts or sings, but she is married to Leyton Hewitt the Australian tennis star so don't feel too bad for her.



This is Tammin Sursok, this song is Its a Beautiful Thing I wanted to play Pointless Relationship which is my personal fave but the embedding was disabled, annoying! You get the idea of the type of music she made with Its a Beautiful Thing though. Tammin played Dani Sutherland on Home and Away and a story she was in involved Dani not being able to sing but learning and being able to sing in front of everybody at school, it was all very moving. This should have been a clue that she would want to sing once she left. Her singing career did not takeoff with this song charting at number 30. It's not all doom and gloom for Tammin though, she now lives in LA and is acting again playing the character of Jenna Marshall on the television show Pretty Little Liars, and that shows bloody amazing!



Saving the best till last its Stephanie McIntosh!! Stephanie played the character of Sky Mangel in Neighbours. She unbelievably signed a 5 album deal with her record company, and a reality show that was about making her first album was called  The Steph Show coincided with her first single release, Mistake. The video is hilarious! She sings to a mirror! Alas her album did not chart as well as hoped  and after some questionable live performances she was dropped. This song was released in the UK so you might have heard it, but then again probably not.

Australian soap stars turned pop stars, gone but not forgotten! (Well not by me at least.)