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Joe Matera is an Australian singer/songwriter, guitarist, recording artist, music journalist, and author. Over the course of his illustrious performing career, he has played guitar for famed British music legend Steve Harley (of Cockney Rebel fame), performed on the festival stages in Europe and earned a Top 20 hit on Radio Berlin in Germany. He has also supported in concert some of Australia’s top artists such as Renée Geyer, Russell Morris and Brian Cadd to international acts such as Canned Heat, The Animals, Peter Criss (KISS) and Bay City Rollers. He has recorded several solo albums which have received release via European record labels. In 2022, he signed to Possum Records in Australia for his most recent album, ‘The Lone Runner’ which was released in March 2023 and debuted on the ARIA Jazz and Blues chart at No.4. He also signed to Renaissance Records in the USA whom reissued his first two albums worldwide in 2023.