Career
Franj had three hit singles on the ARIA Singles Chart top 40: "Oxygen" (March 2002), "Never Be Amazing" (August) and "God Only Knows" (February 2003). All appeared on his debut album, Wrong Place, Wrong Time (March 2003), which reached the ARIA Albums Chart top 60. He co-wrote the song "Perfect" (April 2008) with its performer, Vanessa Amorosi, which reached Number.
4 on the ARIA Charts and is currently certified double platinum.
lieutenant was nominated as the Most Played Australian Work at the Addiction Prevention and Recovery Administration Music Awards of 2009. Some of David"s other prominent co-writes include the song "All on your own" with Rick Price, which features on the "Best of Rick Price" (Sony records), and the Jon Stevens performed single "Just a man" from his album "Changing times" (Universal music).
David Franj, was born as David Frangiosa, and was raised in the Melbourne suburb Preston. Franj"s first single, "Oxygen", was released to radio in early 2002 and peaked at Number.
25 on the ARIA Singles Chart in April.
His debut album, Wrong Place, Wrong Time, reached Number. 53 on the ARIA Albums Chart. In December 2003 Franj provided "I Want to Wake Up with You" for the soundtrack for the Australian comedy film, The Wannabes.
Vanessa Amorosi released "Perfect" in April 2008, the second single from her second studio album, Somewhere in the Real World.
lieutenant was co-written by Franj with Amorosi and peaked at Number. 4. By the end of that year it was certified platinum for shipment of 70,000 units.
At the Addiction Prevention and Recovery Administration Music Awards of 2009 "Perfect" was nominated for Most Played Australian Work. The single has also recently been given the illustrious title of Most Played Song on Radio by an Australian artist in the past decade (114 weeks on 29 June 2011), an accolade only beaten internationally by two other artists – Coldplay and Kings of Leon.
