Making of a Musician
Making of a Musician is an independent music interview podcast hosted by Kristy Graham, a Melbourne-based singer-songwriter and musician. Since 2016, Kristy has been sitting down with musicians to explore the music that made them who they are. Season 1 featured eight Australian artists across a range of styles. Season 2, launched in October 2025, expands the conversation globally — covering protest music, international guests, and the stories behind a life in music. Produced, edited, and recorded entirely by Kristy, the show carries no paid advertising. The best way to support it is to support the musicians featured.
Episodes
Kira J is a multi-instrumentalist, who brings her own style to each song she produces. In this episode Kira shares her fantastic songs and what inspired her work like ‘Winter in Budapest’ and ‘Lassiter’s reef’. And I am glad to know why there was a place called Lassiter’s in Neighbours.
Kira is an award winning songwriter and last year had 5 songs short listed in 5 different categories of the Aus...
Coming up on Making of A Musician is the amazing song writer, singer, story teller, wine expert and wonderful Kira Janowsky who allowed me to spend so much time with her.
This is just the start of an amazing story.
Stay tuned to hear the rest soon. I promise.
https://kirajanowsky.bandcamp.com/album/lighthouse
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Commentary Podcast
I’d like to begin by acknowledging the Traditional Owners of the land on which this podcast was made in Naam, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation and pay my respects to Elders past and present and any Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders that may be listening.
Where Art meets Post Punk is how Severins formed out of the early 90s. Now 30 years on and still recording new music and in part ...
You can find Making of a Musician on Sundays on Untidy Radio.
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It is on 7pm in Melbourne, Australia AEDT
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Commentary Podcast
Part 1 of this episode is dedicated to Richard Moffat; because I did not mention him in my favourite, inspiring, supportive radio presenters from back in the day on Triple R.
Where Art meets Post Punk is how Severins formed out of the early 90s. Where there was a boundary they wanted to push it and now 30 years on, you may hear if this perspective has changed..
The podcast touches on cancer and so if you ar...
Commentary Podcast
Yolanda has had such an interesting life and has seen bands that we could only imagine to have seen.
In Part 2 we continue were we left off in Part 1 https://omny.fm/shows/making-of-a-musician/season-2-episode-3-yolanda-ingley-ii-part-1
Yolanda talks about influences, singing, Australian bands playing randomly on a Wednesday afternoon in the 60s, how song writing happens, can happen and how it starts.
This ...
Music Commentary Podcast.
This episode is dedicated to Steve Dagg.
Yolanda Ingley II has a story of migration, Australia and how women still are the back bone of successful men at the detriment to themselves and their talents. It is hard to find many men that would do the reverse.
Warning: We swear in this episode.
We all need to thank the wonderful Steve Dagg for bringing Yolanda out of the kitchen and into our speaker...
The question I forgot to ask Mark the most, is did he ever ask his Mum when she found the guitar?
You will have to listen to find out why I would have that question.
In Part 2 of this chat with Mark James is where you can hear 2 musicians of the same age from different parts of the world talk about Music. Kristy explains to Mark the best things about Manchester music and Mark calls Brisbane a name she had not thought of...
Episode 2 features Mark James from Salford in Great Manchester. Making of a Musician's first international guest!
As a fan of many bands from Manchester I really loved talking to Mark, who likes Australian music more than what comes from Manchester, and really who wouldn't except probably me.
He has an eclectic amount of music produced and created from punk guitar to ambient dark synth instrumentals to experimenting wit...
Listen to the Musicians from Season 1 tell you when music first grabbed their attention.
Australian Musicians Billy Abbott, Tracy McNeil, Mandy Connell, Ben Smith, Jordan Bakker, Serina Pech, Helen Ryder and Cris Sirc all share their memories on how they became a Musician in Season 1. Still Available to listen to. Still Interesting!
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Education Podcast
This episode is dedicated to Kev Carmody.
Please note this podcast has the names and voices of people who have died.
Inspired to start again by Jayson Gillham and Connor D'Netto and their work on the piece of music Witness.
Coming up in Episode 1 of Season 2 are activists musicians that inspire me. Like Pete Seegar, Sinead O'Connor, Woody Guthrie, Midnight Oil, Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter, John Lennon and K...
Education Podcast _ Protest Music
This episode is dedicated to Kev Carmody
Inspired to start again by Jayson Gillham and Connor D'Netto and their work on the piece of music Witness.
Coming up in Episode 1 of Season 2 are activists musicians that inspire me. Like Pete Seegar, Sinead O'Connor, Woody Guthrie, Midnight Oil, Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter, John Lennon and Kev Carmody.
Not sure they set out to sing more than they wer...
Episode 8 features Cris Sirc of Angler, Phat Puff and Sirc. Listen in to how Kiss grabbed his attention and the club Clockwork Orange’s Indie Pop lead to the discovery of electronic music. We discuss what equipment to use, including how you can use an Atari to create music, favourite synth sounds and who has been Cris’ biggest influences.
This episode is dedicated to our good friend Stevie B, Steven Bertschik.
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Episode 7 features the talented Helen Ryder, a Melbourne based singer who has sung across many genres throughout her career: pop, country, soul, blues, gospel and jazz throughout her career. Listen in to hear how she came to a musical career, why she chose the songs for her debut album 'Someday Love', what her influences are and the music has played a part in her journey so far.
Note: Please excuse the background noise at times tow...
Episode 6 of Making of a musician features the fabulously gifted Serina Pech.
This interview was recorded on the eve of the launch of Serina's self-titled EP on the 23rd of March 2017.
Serina Pech is a singer-songwriter who grew up in the isolation of Katherine in the Northern Territory – an influence she carries through her music.
Listen in to how she found her way to music and the vast influences who have help...
Jordan Bakker is a passionate young acoustic performer from Melbourne Australia. ;sJordan original work covers many genres from Bluegrass to a Bossa Nova, yet all have a raw Blues backbone. Listen in to hear how he started, what advice he has received from Tash Sultana and much more.
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During Episode 4 of Making a Musician we meet singer/songwriter Ben Smith, who was born in the UK but spent ten years of his childhood in sunny Queensland playing regular gigs in pubs as a 10 to 13-year-old.
Listen in to how Ben returned from the UK after being signed by a record company at 16 to start his real musical journey in Melbourne years later.
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In Part 2 of Episode 3 of Making of a Musician we continue the journey through Mandy Connell's musical influences, songs she can’t get enough of and the album everyone should own. Listen in to hear Mandy explain how to join a music session and how she became the amazing folk musician she is.
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In part 1 of episode 3 of Making of a Musician we go through Mandy Connell’s journey through folk and how she is bringing to life traditional folk ballads from the UK and poetry from Australia in the Stray Hens. Listen in to hear a fantastic insight into the folk scene of Australia including Mandy’s earliest musical memories and attempts at learning a few instruments.
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From Depeche Mode to the Dawes, listen in to hear how Tracy McNeil became drawn in by the Melbourne music scene to call Australia home after leaving Canada nearly 10 years ago for 10 months. We talk about the beautiful influences around her, the latest Tracy McNeil and the Goodlife album ‘Thieves’ and the craft of song writing in episode 2 of Making of a musician.
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