About Tania

Tania has achieved the great Australian country music dream of making chart topping hits and touring the country with her own shows.

Biography
As one of the Kernaghan ‘dynasty’ – Tania has achieved great success beyond the recording studio.

Tania Kernaghan is firmly cemented in the Australian entertainment industry! Whilst her name draws attention alone, it is her triple threat talent that has provided Tania Kernaghan with a career in the industry for over 25 years!

Singer, songwriter, TV presenter and Master of Ceremonies…it’s easy to see why Tania Kernaghan is Australia’s most recognisable and loved female country music recording artist. And when it comes to entertaining her audiences she certainly delivers the good.

Proudly boasting seven chart topping career albums with number eight set for release in 2020, adding to her credit, 16 Number 1 radio hits, coupled with a swag of awards including 2 x CMAA Female Artist of the Year Award, Album of The Year and Vocal Collaboration of the Year, ARIA Finalist along with Gold and Platinum albums for record sales in the hundreds of thousand.

As one of the Kernaghan ‘dynasty’ – Tania’s has achieved great success beyond the recording studio. She is also a familiar face as a successful presenter on TV and a highly accomplished emcee.

Apart from Tania’s busy recording and concert touring schedule, she also tours the nation as an in-demand Keynote speaker where she shares many heart warming and entertaining stories about her fascinating life on the road, growing up in the Kernaghan family, romances and broken hearts and the incredible highs and lows that come with that.

There is so much more to this effervescent all Australian girl than meets the eye! She is a proud advocate for many Australian charities including Vice Patron for the Riding for the Disabled Association and Ambassador for Outback Queensland Tourism Association. It’s easy to see why Tania Kernaghan is held in high esteem within the country music industry and admired and loved by her many fans.

Whilst music is obviously Tania’s first love, there is much more to this ‘all Australian girl’ - and it more than meets the eye, as she is a television presenter with a long list of credits to her name, including Channel 10s caravanning and lifestyle program What’s Up Down Under, Queenslander Weekender and a leading role in the movie Shadows of the Past.

Add to all that a heartfelt love of her country she continues to make time for her much loved charity work. Tania is a patron for both Riding For The Disabled and a proud supporter of Angel Flight Australian and is a board member and Ambassador for Outback Queensland Tourism Association.

Tania also tours the country as an in-demand keynote and motivational speaker for corporate and charity organisations where she shares many entertaining stories about her life on the road, growing up in the Kernaghan family and all the incredible highs and lows that come with that.

She also travels throughout Australia emceeing awards nights and gala events.

With such varied and bright career highlights to her credit, Tania is still a friendly, down-to earth, all Australian girl and that is surely a fitting title for her seventh career album - released on KCR Records, a label her father Ray started in 1977.

DID YOU KNOW
  • 7 career albums
  • 16 number one singles
  • Winner of 4 Golden Guitar Awards & is an ARIA Finalist
  • Performed at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville
  • First female inducted into the Galaxy of Stars in Tamworth
  • Vice Patron for Riding For The Disabled Australia
  • Ambassador for Outback QLD Tourism
  • Tania’s first number one hit, “I’ll Be Gone”, featured Keith Urban on guitar and backing vocals
  • Tania’s album, “Big Sky Country” was produced by Andrew Farriss (INXS). Australian music royalty including Ian Moss (Cold Chisel) and Garth Porter (Sherbet) have featured on her albums.
FUN FACTS
  • An avid 4WD enthusiast and a member of the Motorama 4x4xMore Club
  • Loves Go-Karting
  • Skilled Horse Woman – competed in Celebrity Horse Cutting Events
  • ball room dancing, although still a self confessed beginner!
  • a heavy vehicle licence … not joke! But you won’t see Tania giving up her day job to drive in the mines anytime soon.