Get to know the Australian singer-songwriter who stole our hearts with his hit single “Riptide.”
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Vance Joy has already been making headlines with his hit single "Riptide," and the talented Australian with swoonworthy good looks just released his debut album Dream Your Life Away.
Currently on his own headlining tour, it was just announced that he'll be joining Taylor Swift on her upcoming 1989 World Tour. You're about to see a lot more of this talented singer-songwriter, so now's the perfect time to get to know your new favorite Australian.
I got my name from a book called 'Bliss' by Peter Carey, which is an Australian story. I had about five or six songs I was really stoked with, and I just wanted to have a name to put with that new collection of songs that wasn't my name, because people always mispronounce Keough because it's got the 'gh' at the end. So I used Vance Joy, which is a character [in the book] — he's like a storyteller, so it's a cool name.
The film in 'Riptide' — 'there's this movie that I think you'll like' — is Midnight Cowboy. I was on the plane about four years ago and my dad told me about this movie Midnight Cowboy and I was like, I really wanna see this film, and I went back and watched that.
