Katie Noonan has shared a heartbreaking update on social media after revealing a year of loss.
The Aussie singer, 47, took to Instagram on Sunday to shed light on what has been a rough 12 months, lamenting the death of her father, the breakdown of her marriage and the crumbling of her oldest band.
‘So much profound grief and loss this last year,’ she wrote in an Instagram post, accompanied with a somber selfie of the George front-woman in a black and white hue.
‘I am so deeply hurt and exhausted, but there is great solace in knowing I am not alone as I walk this new path – alone yet all one.’
She revealed that the split from her husband and bandmate Isaac Hurren resulted in the simultaneous loss of her marriage and band that they had created together, Elixir.
What’s more, Katie’s muse for the band’s last two albums Michael Leunig passed away ‘a month after my life was blown apart’, adding another big blow for the musician.
Katie Noonan has shared a heartbreaking update on social media after revealing a year of loss. Pictured
The Aussie singer, 47, took to Instagram on Sunday to shed light on what has been a rough 12 months, lamenting the death of her father, the breakdown of her marriage and the crumbling of her oldest band
‘My body has been in a tailspin of grief, extraordinary stress and profound emotional and physical pain,’ she said of the last few heartbreaking months, adding that she doesn’t know how to ‘navigate this new me’.
The solemn post ended on a happier note, with the songstress revealing that despite her overwhelming loss, she would choose herself going forward.
‘As I reach out for arms who don’t want or need me, I don’t know who I am anymore.’
She added: ‘I do know I need to get better and look after myself – as nobody else will.
‘All I know is music saves me and there is medicine in pain,’ she ended the post.
The shock split announcement comes after Katie and saxophonist Isaac marked their 20th wedding anniversary in November last year.
Katie shared a sweet post of the couple on Instagram showing no sign of their looming split.
The couple, who share two children together, met at a concert in Brisbane and have been creating music together ever since.
She revealed that the split from her husband and bandmate Isaac Hurren (pictured centre) resulted in the loss of her marriage and band they created together, Elixir.
Katie revealed in 2020 she had been relying on the government’s JobKeeper payment scheme to stay financially afloat amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The musician began losing income when her tours were cancelled in March.
Katie told the Courier Mail: ‘I was crippled by the enormous financial loss, very significant loss, as an independent producer. JobKeeper has been a life saver and I was lucky enough to get on that.’
The ARIA-award winning artist was due to go on tour in March before the lockdown and travel restrictions were enforced across Australia.
While she has been lucky to receive the government support, she noted that the industry as a whole will likely take a long time to bounce back.
‘We were the first industry decimated and I sadly think we will be the last to recover,’ Katie said.
The Breathe In Now singer also pointed the finger at commercial radio stations across the country for not actively giving Australian artists airplay while they are unable to make money from live shows.
‘There’s an entire generation that believe that music is a free thing on the internet and unfortunately it is, so the only way to make a living is to play live to a large gathering of people, which is precisely what we cannot do right now,’ she said.
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