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Since her U.S. debut in 2000, Gilli Moon has released 8 albums, won 20+ international songwriting awards, published 3 books, built the world's largest non-profit social media platform for over 50,000 songwriters, and built a 100,000+ following of her own artistry. She is a self-made brand.

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A girl from the Aussie 'Bush',  Gilli (pronounced as with a "J") ​ took the leap to Hollywood, California 20 years ago, and has forged an incredible career to become one of the Music Industry's leading Independent Renaissance Artist Entrepreneurs and an Internationally recognized Singer/Songwriter/Producer, Author, Coach and Motivational Speaker. Her widely distributed creative work has garnered the highest praise from thoughtful critics across the globe. She is a creative disruptor... a pioneer and champion for thousands of independent artists who follow in her footsteps. ​

Hollywood-based Australian artist, Gilli Moon has a passion for emotional songs, evoking connection, self-introspection, and personal empowerment. One of the first known “Indie Artists” of the millennium, she has pioneered a successful independent music career, with her own record label as well as a champion for thousands of independent artists who follow in her footsteps. She has a string of songwriting awards, cuts, and credits to her 25 year career span.  

Born in Milan, Italy, and raised near Sydney, Australia, ​GILLI MOON is a quintessential 'triple threat' - a talent for songwriting, singing and acting, she has worked with other highly respected prominent artists including Eric Idle (with whom she toured US/Canada's major theaters and also mentioned in his book, The Greedy Bastard Tour),  Placido Domingo, will.i.am, Erikah Badu, Rickie Lee Jones, Simple Minds and for Jeff Buckley Estate in New York and Los Angeles for Sony Columbia Records.
With 8 studio music albums, with new album launched January 21, 2021 (beautiful mess), Gilli has also released over 100 songs and albums for other artists, films and TV shows, and is one of LA’s few female producers and record label owners, becoming the voice for creative entrepreneurial success. She has created several global communities of over 50,000 devoted artist entrepreneurs, songwriters and “creative warriors”, inspired by her unprecedented DIY artist success and her unparalleled expertise. 
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A diverse discography, her songs have been featured in independent films and network U.S television programs worldwide, including CBS Young & The Restless, Nickelodeon's "South Of Nowhere", WB “Charmed”, Disney "Rip Girls,” as well as many independent films and recorded by other artists including Dutch artist, Erikah Karst (Mercury/Universal), produced by David Kershenbaum (Tracy Chapman’s "Fast Car"). Her songs have reached No.1 on Belgium’s Planete Indie radio station and nominated for Belgium’s Album of the Year. 

​MOON has received numerous press for her courage, power and dynamic energy as an artist and inspiration for other artists. She was interviewed in Newsweek Magazine as an Internet pioneer and leader in the independent music business, and has been featured alongside Aimee Mann in discussing their mutual success in the indie music scene in Music Connection Magazine.  She has also been interviewed in Billboard Magazine and on Australia's 60 Minutes.  Her body of work has been honored by many esteemed International Songwriting Awards, including Song of the Year by the Benelux International Song & Culture Festival and Best Popular Song by the Johnny Dennis Light Music Awards (Australian Guild of Screen Composers). She won twice Best Solo Artist at L.A's Rock City Music Awards (winning over Aly McBeal's Vonda Shephard); nominated Best Female Artist by Los Angeles Music Awards; and, honored for Outstanding Contribution as an Artist by Hollywood's Artists For A Better World organization. 
“gilli moon can take a song any place she wants… singing sweet whispers one minute, and screaming rock the next.”
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Newsweek Magazine

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Read Gilli Moon's interview with Newsweek
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GILLI MOON’s 7 commercially released music albums include "Girl In The Moon" (1998), "temperamental angel" (2001), "Woman" (2003), "extraOrdinary life" (2005)  "Skillz" (2009), (dedicated to empowering at-risk youth, released with L.A's celebrity spoken word/hip hop artist J.Walker);   "the stillness" (2010),  "REFRESH" (2018), the latter a compilation of her best 10 hits. She also has a dance remix E.P, and has made numerous guest appearances on others' albums.

​In 2021, GILLI released 'beautiful mess'. The first studio album of her originals in 10 years. In fact, it's a double album - volume 1 & volume 2. Read about it.

Her restless creativity and rebellious nature continually urge the Artist to push the envelope - on stage or camera performing, writing a song, recording in the studio, painting a canvas, motivating audiences, or with whatever she touches.  “Dubbed "a female Elton John”,  by Hollywood's Artists For A Better World, gilli moon, delivers evocative, thought-provoking, piano groove-driven songs that juxtapose the soft & sensitive, and energetic & rebellious in dynamic and passionate musical performances and recordings.  Her music has been called “smart, sensitive and perceptive in a style all her own,” by Music Connection Magazine, who also called Gilli’s live performances “elegant, sophisticated and revealing of the human heart”.  Her widely distributed creative work has garnered the highest praise from thoughtful critics across the globe.

Her shows are highly energetic and powerful and she combines music, art, dance and little theatre into her show. Gilli Moon is truly a multi-dimensional experience. Her performance is full of action, her voice and music an expression of pure raw emotion.

Sometimes Gilli incorporates her artwork in her live shows. She calls this “SensuArt”, her creative process bringing as many senses together - aural, visual, touch, in the one moment to create a spontaneous happening that takes the performance to a higher level beyond just sound. 

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Gilli Moon live. Photo by Larry Mah.
Complex is first word that comes to mind when considering Hollywood based Australian artist and producer gilli moon: songs of being a child by an all-woman chanteuse, a singular warrior over the industry who remains quietly sensitive, and a dynamic performance artist who paints as brilliantly as she sings."  
​- JeffBuckley.com / Estate of Jeff Buckley

warrior entrepreneur.

Gilli Moon is also known as the  "voice for artists", having created a global community of devoted followers, empowering artist entrepreneurs, songwriters and “creative warriors”, inspired by her unprecedented DIY artist success and her unparalleled expertise.  She has become a beacon for others inspired by her story, motivated by her passion, her 'can do' attitude, and her creativity. 

As Chief Empowerment Officer of Warrior Girl Creative, her Music and Media Startup, Gilli has had continued successful self-owned record company and independent music business success since the turn of the millennium. 
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 gilli has been a pioneer and champion for thousands of independent artists who follow in her footsteps, Gilli has helped artists and creative seekers get engaged, feel enlightened, and become empowered towards a music career they've always imagined.
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Her label was awarded “Indie Label of the Year” by Philadelphia’s Independent Music Awards and in the last 15 years, MOON has been rising up the ranks as one of Los Angeles sought after female music producers.  She has a talent for taking a song from an idea to a fully produced, radio-ready song, and loves to produce full concept albums, not only for herself but for any artist of any music genre.  She also created the compilation series Females On Fire and the Art Of Men, which provide a platform for independent artists to be showcased to the world, and celebrate over 150 female and male artists from around the world. 

A community builder, inspired to make a difference in the music industry for songwriters, MOON also is the creator of Songsalive!, now 20 years old, the largest internationally based non-profit 501c)3) songwriters organization which also hosts the Songsalive! Expo at UCLA attracting 1000 songwriters.  

In 2007, GILLI launched and co-produced, (with her partners at Gaia Rocks) the Females On Fire - The Los Angeles Women's Music Festival, at Woodley Park, Encino CA, which attracted over 3000 people. Celebrating women in music and the men and women who love them, the festival featured more than 100 artists (including headliner Sophie B Hawkins) from around the world, including an eclectic array of female singer/songwriters and female-fronted bands representing all styles and genres of music. Proceeds of the festival benefited animal rescue organizations.


​Self-produced records and career are startling accomplishments in the continued age of corporate rock, and MOON isn’t shy about discussing her start in the business and evolvement into an indie artist of note. She is often asked to speak at music schools and music conferences about her self-made career, inspiring artists all around the world who follow in her footsteps including UCLA, Berklee School Of Music, Musicians Institute, Taxi Road Rally, the Independent Music Conference, Far West and more.



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gilli moon beat the odds at making it in the music industry after moving from the Australian wilderness to Los Angeles"
- BILLBOARD Magazine.
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Gilli Moon and band. Photo by Larry Mah.
My music is quite eclectic. It used to be a curse for me, as record companies couldn’t pigeon-hole me; I'm influenced by many artists and styles of music. Now, my eclectic style has become my advantage; I love crossing the boundaries and testing new waters by juxtaposing sounds and sonic textures. 
​- gilli moon -  Buzz Communications interview

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First Solo Album:  Girl In The MOON (1998) established her as a promising girl to watch, making a significant dent in the Hollywood and Internet music machines, accumulating a fan base as far as Japan, Russia, Turkey and The Netherlands. She was featured on MP3.com as 'Woman of the Week’ as well as in the hottest Internet Radio Station on the Net, MP3's ‘Battle of the Babes’. The internet has played a powerful role in her promotion.

In 1999 she was featured on MTV's "The Cut" as newly discovered talent and simultaneously hit the Global Internet Music Charts through FirewallUk.com. This brought about an opportunity to be guest artist on the album, Perfect Wordz (2000 /tribe Records) with the band Jessica Christ. Her time with Jessica Christ encouraged her to truly experiment with her stage persona, using costumes, theatrics and unique song arrangements to create a spectacular live performance, pushing the envelope on issues such as gender, relationships and Hollywood politics.

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She cooked up her own online music ploy and released the temperamental angel CD (2001), her 2nd solo album. This rebellious album, of which she wrote all the songs, sends powerful messages about self-empowerment, embracing the full range of human passions and emotions that our personalities express, through a uniquely alternative, edgy sound. temperamental angel is an expression of personality, of raw and sensitive emotions, and how we relate to the people in our lives through the various love-hate disguises of our personas. Keeping with her vision, much of the production was spontaneous following a very organic approach, with all recording using live instruments. She purposefully recorded it and mixed it to sound like a low-fi garage production, with the mastering fidelity and musicianship matching any major artist.  The music video "Temperamental Angel" made it's debut on TV stations across Australia. The Star Newspapers, Chicago put her album at no. 9, in their top 25 records of the year.

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After extensive touring across the United States and Australia, GILLI MOON released her third album, Woman (2003), encompassing the emotions, passions and experiences of a young woman growing up, dealing with relationships and becoming self-empowered as an individual. "The songwriting is still intimate and drawing from personal anecdotes about my own life living around the world," GILLI says. "The last record (temperamental angel) was dealing with a lot of angst, some anger and frustrations, a bit like a rebellious teenager, whereas Woman is like a coming-of-age piece, showing strength and convictions about life and love."

She is very much into making "concept albums". While Woman is organic in approach, keeping the raw rock band style in recording, it also includes her playing the well-oiled piano and some electronic drum 'n bass and loops. More self-penned pop songs than ever, Woman is alternative, yet more radio friendly, and includes her own sultry version of the INXS track “Need You Tonight”, plus several music videos of her album’s singles got some MTV, VHI and Rage (Australia) TV attention. She even rallied her local theatre company in Australia, Wollombi Valley Artists, to participate in the main single’s music video, "Woman".


“I'd hope that listeners connect in their own personal way, whether that is a mood created by the music, or perhaps assimilate with the lyrics. My songs are autobiographical, but my aim is to move the listener in a way that makes them think, change, grow, and see their own world in a new perspective. I don't share my music for personal glory. I get my own buzz playing it and writing it. What I love is the reaction from the audience showing me they assimilate and feel something. Too many people's senses are dull these days. I hope I can awaken them”.

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GILLI MOON’s first three albums received outstanding reviews and set her course as one of most intriguing and dynamic artists to watch out for in the music business. Then in 2006, GILLI released extraOrdinary life, (album No.4), an adventurous journey of autobiographical songs and stories, and intimate music conversations about GILLI MOON’s inner truths, emotions and passions, anecdotes about falling in love, and out of it, about living in Hollywood, and about freedom, humour, simplicity and a life long journey of discovery.  extraOrdinary life was a groove oriented self-produced album, mixing sensuous basslines, emotional piano and GILLI MOON’s lilting melodic voice, with self-penned songs. With an emphasis on organic, raw musical textures, GILLI’s trademark “edge” is present, combining a cool rebelliousness of eclectic guitars, techno loops, live drums and world-beat percussion. extraOrdinary life celebrates 13 brand new self-penned songs, a spoken word track and an Italian song, true to her family roots. It was also an enhanced CD (remember them?), which featured a 10 min “making of” video, and a 20 photo slide show, photography which has come to visual life by Hollywood’s celebrity photographer Jim Steinfeldt (Tina Turner, Madonna, Miles Davis, Willie Nelson). extraOrdinary life was finalist in the USA Independent Music Awards (judges included Melissa Ethridge, Norah Jones and Jonatha Brooke to name a few)

"extraOrdinary life is about a global harmony that starts with the tiniest one-on-one interactions. If we are able to have a harmonious relationship with another person then we're able to understand that dynamic on a global scale", GILLI MOON says. "This album certainly has more emphasis on social perspectives and world harmony. If we can heal ourselves, and be more connected with our inner self and our community, then the world pretty much takes care of itself."

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In 2009, GILLI released an album called Skillz, a powerful and positive Hip-Pop CD for kids, working with her just married to husband, celebrity spoken word artist J.Walker. The mission of the Skillz CD is to use the power of hip-hop lyrics to help young people express, discover and create themselves in positive ways. Through working in the streets, the dynamic hip-pop duo quickly realized the necessity and importance of their work, and created the album with positive messages and motivating music.

In 2010, along came the stillness, GILLI’s 6th album, which truly and richly captures her essence, her passions, her lifelong yearning and mountain climbing (metaphorically speaking) and arriving, finally, at a place of serenity. This album shows the strength of her songwriting, her dynamic vocal range, and her joy for the piano. Plus, like all album covers before, her visual art. Lyrically the songs speak of arriving at a place of inner-ease and personal strength, of self-knowing and understanding. Ultimately, the stillness album takes the listener on a journey through GILLI's love stories, life lessons and observations of the world.
REFRESH, her 7th album (2017), pulls from her exorbitant song vault. It includes her top all time self-penned songs, as well as one sultry and unique cover version of INXS' "Need You Tonight".  With REFRESH, MOON's soulful melodies, cleverly crafted songwriting and captivating piano composing are re-defined, with her soaring and impassioned vocal delivery and rich melodies. The album showcases Pop beats not out of place on an Alessia Cara, Lady Gaga or Pink record and a warm vocal presence that, when combined with gilli’s penchant for the artistic and the colorful.
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BEAUTIFUL MESS
​January 21, 2021 and February 19, 2021 - Double album
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"By her creation, GILLI MOON has allowed the listeners of her music to paint worlds of imagery with their minds. …The lyrics are unlike any that I've heard from a pop artist, and tell me that MOON is more about art and presenting her passions than creating die cut pop songs."
​- The GlobalMusic.com

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Gilli has written several motivational books for artists based on her experiences in the music and general arts businesses as an artist entrepreneur, - "The 360 degree Songwriter (2018), "Just Get Out there" (2011) and "I AM A Professional Artist - the Key to Survival and Success in the World of the Arts" (2007 3rd Edition). When time permits, gilli offers artist coaching and speaks on panels about DIY, the indie movement and how to survive the business. Check out theCrea8ve  and Songsalive!   Everything she learns, she shares to others.
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I AM A Professional Artist

The Key To Survival and Success in the World of the Arts
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Just Get Out There

Achieving Abundance, Self-Empowerment and Professional Success as an Artist Entrepreneur
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The 360 Degree Songwriter

The Whole-istic Approach to Becoming A Hit Maker
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