David Campbell Biography
David Campbell OAM is a singer, actor, and television personality from Australia. He released his debut album, Yesterday is Now, in 1997. In the same year, he released his second album, Taking the Wheel.
How old is David Campbell? – Age
He is 49 years old as of 6 August 2022. He was born in 1973 in Adelaide, Australia. His real name is David Joseph Campbell.
David Campbell Family – Education
Jimmy Barnes, the frontman and singer of Cold Chisel, is Campbell’s father. He was reared by his maternal grandmother and believed that his grandmother was his mother and his actual mother was his sister until he was about ten years old. After reuniting with his father, Jimmy Barnes, he performed on multiple occasions, including an episode of Dancing with the Stars and Carols by Candlelight. Both father and son have recorded duets for their father’s and son’s studio albums.
David Campbell Wife
Campbell married British producer Lisa Hewitt in 2008, and the couple has three children.
David Campbell Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $10 Million.
David Campbell Dancing with the Stars
Campbell appeared on Dancing with the Stars’ third season. He has also appeared in two seasons of It Takes Two, a celebrity singing competition. In 2007, he won the second series with celebrity partner Jolene Anderson.
Dancing with the Stars is an Australian reality television show that ran on the Seven Network from 2004 to 2015 and on Network 10 from 2019 to 2020. It aired live from the HSV-7 studios (now Global Television studios) in Melbourne on the Seven Network; on Network 10, it aired live from Disney Studios Australia in Sydney and Docklands Studios in Melbourne.
The show is based on the British BBC Television series Strictly Come Dancing and is part of the international Dancing with the Stars franchise owned by BBC Worldwide.
The show matches celebrities with professional ballroom dancers, who compete in a dance-off each week to impress a panel of judges and, ultimately, the viewing audience in order to avoid elimination. Viewers vote for the couple they believe should remain in the competition via phone and SMS voting. When deciding which couple is eliminated, the judges’ scores are mixed with the viewer votes.
David Campbell Dream Lover
Campbell featured in Dream Lover – The Bobby Darin Musical in 2016. Sony Music Australia issued a cast recording featuring Campbell in September 2016. The ARIA Charts placed it at number nine. Campbell won his second Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Musical for Dream Lover.
David Campbell Hey Hey It’s Saturday
Campbell appeared on Hey Hey It’s Saturday and occasionally co-hosted The Morning Show with Kylie Gillies when Larry Emdur was unavailable. Campbell is presently a co-host on the Nine Network’s Today Extra (previously Mornings with Sylvia Jefferys). Campbell sang at Carols in the Domain in Sydney in 2011. Campbell was named as Sonia Kruger’s co-host of Vision Australia’s Carols by Candlelight in 2013.
Campbell was named Weekend Today co-host in January 2019, succeeding Peter Stefanovic. He held the role till December of 2019. Campbell will present Today Extra full-time beginning in 2020, with Richard Wilkins taking over Weekend Today. During the COVID-19 epidemic, Campbell hosted Music from the Home Front, a music event taped from musicians’ homes and broadcast on network 9 in April 2020. Campbell began listening to smoothfm in May 2012. He is now the host of Smoothfm 91.5’s Weekend Afternoons (1pm – 4pm) in Melbourne and Smoothfm 95.3 in Sydney.
David Campbell Adelaide Cabaret Festival
Campbell was named artistic director of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival in 2008, and his programming debuted at the festival in June 2009. His final Cabaret Festival as artistic director was in 2011.
David Campbell Theatre
Campbell began working professionally in Australia in 1993, after extensive training in youth theatre, during which he won an Australia Day award for his contribution to youth stars. Campbell attracted attention in Sydney with his role in the hit Australian play Relative Merits.
In 1995 Campbell starred in the revival of Alex Harding’s musical, Only Heaven Knows, for which he was nominated for a MO Award for Best Musical Theatre Performer of the Year. In 1997, Campbell travelled to New York and performed in the Tony Award-winning Love! Valor! Compassion!.
Campbell appeared in Les Misérables in the role of Marius Campell won the MO Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical and New York Backstage Bistro Award as Outstanding Vocalist of the Year.
Campbell also performed in South Pacific, Guys and Dolls – and in Hey, Mr. Producer!. In 2000, he provided the singing voice for the character Joseph in DreamWorks’ animated film Joseph: King of Dreams.
In 2001, Campbell appeared in the Australian musical Shout! The Legend of The Wild One, the story of rocker Johnny O’Keefe. Since 2001 he has made occasional stage appearances in Australia, in musicals such as Carousel, Sunset Boulevard, and Company. His performance in Sunset Boulevard earned Campbell the award for Best Male Actor in a Musical at the 6th Helpmann Awards.
In 2016, Campbell appeared in Dream Lover – The Bobby Darin Musical. A cast recording was released in September 2016 by Sony Music Australia, featuring Campbell. It debuted at number 9 on the ARIA Charts. For Dream Lover, Campbell received his second Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Musical.