Nathan Foley (singer)

Nathan Joel Foley (born 27 September 1979) is an Australian singer-songwriter and television personality. He was an original member of Australian children's musical group Hi-5 from 1998 to 2008.

Foley started singing professionally at 10 years old with bands singing Jazz, Soul, R&B, Pop and Rock in clubs in Sydney, Australia. 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.^[1]

Foley is a descendant of the Yuin people, an Aboriginal Australian group, on his mother's side.^[2]

In 1998, Foley joined the Australian children's musical group Hi-5 as an original member; touring and filming the related television series for ten years.^{[3] [4]} Foley announced his departure from the group in November 2008, expressing interest in focusing on his adult music career. He was replaced by Tim Maddren.^{[5] [6]}

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.^{[citation needed ]}

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.^[7]

Foley was a top 3 contestant on the Network 10 show I Will Survive .^{[citation needed ]}

In 2016, Foley won Princess cruises Entertainer of the year for his big band solo shows being the first Australian to win this title.^[8]

In 2019, Foley auditioned for The Voice and was placed on Delta Goodrem's team.^[9] Foley was eliminated in the first Knock-out rounds.

Through the show, he became good friends with and eventually in 2002 began dating fellow Hi-5 cast member Kellie Crawford, née Hoggart. The couple became engaged in 2005 to be married in March 2007. On 7 December 2006, it was reported that Crawford and Foley had decided to end their engagement. Apparently, their breakup had occurred some time prior to the reports.^{[10] [11] [12]}

Foley married Jamaican model Nicolette Gomex in March 2020, and they have one child, Jackson Joel Foley.^[13]

• Official website
• Nathan Foley at IMDb