Gray Bartlett

About

Gray Bartlett has been there, done that, in New Zealand showbiz and on stages overseas. He has succeeded in business and even found time to serve as a community leader, being elected and serving on the Auckland City Council until he voluntarily decided it was time to move on in 2001. Then, even after three decades in music, and with two million album sales to his credit, he reached out and shared his wisdom by guiding the fortunes of immense rising talents, Hayley Westenra and Ben Morrison.

Gray Bartlett is fiercely independent, resourceful and determined. He is frustrated and content, young at heart, but eminently wise at the same time. His passion for his music and business really shines through and is one of the reasons he has survived and thrived for so long in a cut-throat industry. Often against the odds, he has relied on his entrepreneurial spirit to create his success.

• International guitarist, musical director, composer, producer & concert promoter

• Gray has sold in excess of a million units of his music through 30 albums and 20 singles.

• He has performed in Tokyo, Japan, UK and toured NZ and Australia with Rolf Harris.

• Former City Councillor (9 years)

• Husband & father, hails from a big family (4 brothers and 3 sisters)

• Awarded an MBE in Queen’s New Years honors list for service to music & community.

• Discovered & career strategist for Hayley Westenra (No.1 New Zealand Charts), Ben Morrison (No. 15 New Zealand Charts), Yulia (No. 1 New Zealand Charts) , Will Martin (signed to Universal UK), Annabel Fay (Top 10 Debut Single) and Elizabeth Marvelly

• His company has represented Norah Jones, Diana Krall, Billy Connolly, Bollywood stars and many others.