Thanks for stopping by and getting to know me a little better. I am an Italian born Australian country singer (hey, it does happen!). I started my career in music as a music journalist for Go-Set magazine (Australia’s first pop music magazine) in the late 60’s, then into Product and Marketing for WEA Records, before heading to London & Canada in the 70’s, working in the music industry overseas.

On returning to Australia in the mid 70’s, I moved to Tamworth (Australia’s Country Music Capital), drawn by the country music scene there and quickly became entrenched in the music scene. It was in Tamworth that I started my music career as a singer with my girl trio SKARLETT with Kate McCarthy and Jacqui Glynn, (photo in gallery) and also worked with the groundbreaking New England Rangers, the first country rock outfit in a rock and roll town. It was the early days of the Country Music, and the place was open armed to everyone. I stayed 25 years, had two beautiful children Daniel and Jessie, and a professional career in the studios of Tamworth, singing on literally hundreds of country music albums.

I am grateful for those years of Tamworth’s acceptance of me as an artist and their total support of my career, no matter what style of music I explored, which were many.

"FINE COMPANY", my first solo CD, recorded in 1996, entwined all the styles of music I love to sing, country, blues, R & B and jazz. To my delight, the album received rave reviews.

In 2000, I made my sea change, and left Tamworth to live on the far north coast of NSW, to Mullumbimby in the Byron Bay shire.

• Tamworth Country Music Festival Opening Concert 1997 in front of 18,000 people.

• Backing vocalist for live radio shows "Country Muster" and live television show, "It Must Be Country" and the Tamworth Country Music Awards Band, throughout the 70’s & 80’s, in Tamworth.

• Female Vocalist and Duo of the Year for l985 album "Angel Band" at the inaugural Australasian Country Gospel Awards.

• Backing vocalist on hundreds of country music albums recorded in the many Tamworth studios, from l975 to 2000.

• Recording "Bring It On" and "Heartbeat Highway" and of course "Wildflowers"

• 2006 TIARA winner of the Gentleman Geoff Brown Memorial Award for "Heartbeat Highway"

• Nominated Best Female Vocalist and Artist of the Year in the first round of the European Country Music Awards 2006.

• Nominated Female Vocalist of the Year, 2006 NSW Gold Medallion Awards

• 2008 Inductee to the Australian Country Music LBS WALL OF HONOUR for making an important contribution to the Professional Recording Industry.

• "Wildflowers" takes out the Contemporary Country Song category and Country Song of The Year at the Northern Territory Country Songwriting Awards in May 2008.

-Female Vocalist of the Year and Songwriter of the year for "Wildflowers" at the 2008 NSW Gold Medallion Awards in Tamworth. -2009 TIARA nomination for "My Mothers Wedding Band".

-An unprecedented four nominations in the 2008/2009 European ECMA Country Music Awards put Clelia in the International spotlight in 2009. Clelia was nominated for Artist of the Year, Female Vocalist of the Year, and Newcomer Artist of the year, whilst "Wildflowers" was nominated for Song of the Year.

• 2010 Inducted into the Hands of Fame in Tamworth on January 23, 2010

Emmylou Harris, Gram Parsons, Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, John Prine, Patsy Cline, Jonathan Edwards, Hank Williams, Kevin Bennett, Dusty Springfield, The Beatles, Rodney Crowell, Paul Kelly, Vince Jones, The Pretenters, Neil Young, The Mavericks, Doris Day, Bob Dylan, kd lang, Billie Holiday, Everly Bros. Keith Urban, Louis Armstrong, Daniel Adams Gillian Welch, Louvin Bros., Ella Fitzgerald, George Harrison, The Dillards, Feral Swing Katz, Eva Cassidy, Tom Petty, Kieran Kane, Kevin Welch, Chet Atkins,The Travelling Wilburys, Frank Sinatra, Jessie Adams, Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson, Suzie Bogus,Ted Tilbrook, The Steele Bros (Kirk & Gary), Lefty Frizzell, Camille and Stuart French, Bill Chambers, Laura Downing, the Gibson Brothers, Rhonda Vincent, Sandra Humphries… to be continued