When Sydney singer-songwriter Jack Colwell performed live, he was a one-man séance, cresting operatic highs and frightening the horses with guttural, primal lows. Visually, he was a vision board of romantic leads, from a knight in shining armour eating an ice-cream sundae, to a shirtless dreamboat swooning into a bed of flowers. On record, through his cluster of EPs and singles, his work with artists including Sarah Blasko and Patrick Wolf, and on his 2020 debut album Swandream, he tackled darkness and trauma head on. As a friend, he was generous and loyal, almost to a fault.
The Australian music community, his friends and his family were devastated on Thursday to hear of Jack’s death, at the age of 34.
