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.
Early life
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]
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]
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]
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.
Personal life
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]