Col Joye
Col Joye
Genres: country, rock n roll
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About Col Joye
Col Joye AM (born Colin Frederick Jacobsen in Sydney on 13 April 1936; died 5 August 2025) was a pioneering Australian rock singer-songwriter, musician and entrepreneur with a career spanning almost sixty-seven years, starting from the late 1950s. Remembered as the first Australian rock and roll singer to have a number one record Australia-wide, he experienced a string of chart successes in the early Australian rock and roll scene, performing with his band the Joy Boys (formerly KJ Quintet). Joye's popularity levelled off after the changes to the music scene associated with the rise of surf music and the "British Invasion"; it was not until 1973 that he had another hit record, with the country music song "Heaven Is My Woman's Love", reaching No. 1 on the Australian Go-Set charts that year. With his brother, Kevin Jacobsen, he built an influential entertainment management, publishing and recording business, including ATA Studios in Glebe, New South Wales. This business worked with developing and promoting artists including the Bee Gees, and their brother Andy Gibb. Their promotions company, Jacobsen Entertainment, continued into the 2000s, with the brothers remaining as principal directors On 8 June 1981, he was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for his entertainment and philanthropic work. In 1988, the ARIA Music Awards in 1988, inducted Joye into the ARIA Hall of Fame.
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