Mirusia joins The Original Seekers at QPAC

She’s played to packed houses all over the world but for superstar soprano Mirusia, there’s no place like home.

She has won hearts around the globe performing with Andre Rieu and the Johann Strauss Orchestra but when star soprano Mirusia steps on stage with The Original Seekers next month, she will be proudly returning to her musical roots.

“I was eight when we got our first CD player, and my dad had the 25th anniversary of The Seekers album,” she says.

“Georgy Girl became my favourite song. I would choreograph dances to it and perform for my parents, so it made so much sense to me to perform with the four people who really inspired me when I was growing up.

“I can’t wait to sing the songs I sang in my living room all those years ago. It’s a huge honour, and so good that the music is living on.”

Mirusia and The Original Seekers features music from the 2019 albums The Original Seekers — Back to Our Roots, and Mirusia — A Salute to the Seekers.

Mirusia with The Seekers.

While The Seekers’ story has been well documented, not many people know that the genesis of the group stretches back to the 1950s, and that it was originally an all-male group.

Mirusia will share the QPAC stage with three founding members — Athol Guy, Keith Potger and Bruce Woodley — and long-time Seekers producer and guitarist/singer Michael Cristiano.

Mirusia, a 34-year-old who shot to fame after being discovered by music megastar Rieu, is also pleased to be sharing the music from her childhood with 19-month-old daughter Sascha.

“Being a mum is so wonderful and has given me even more reason to sing,” she says.

Singer Mirusia Louwerse with daughter Sascha. Picture Annette Dew

“Sascha absolutely loves singing too and sings all day and all night, but I’ll leave it up to her whether she wants to follow in my footsteps or not.

“My parents never pushed me to sing, they were not ‘stage parents’, and actually got fed up driving me around to singing competitions all the time. It was always me who was pushing for it.”

Despite scaling great heights, it would seem fame hasn’t changed Mirusia at all, something she puts down to understanding who she was before her success.

“I was always a normal person. I grew up in Brisbane and wanted to be a singer my whole life,” she explains.

Mirusia with Andre Rieu

“People who are the most successful never change who they are. There is no need to change yourself. Andre is still the same guy.

“I think when you’re launched into fame very quickly, that can change you, but I had the ladder-climb experience and did the hard yards before I made it.

“Anthony Hopkins is one of the biggest movie stars in the world and I’ve met him and he’s so lovely, just like a normal grandpa.

“If he’s such a massive movie star and yet so normal and kind to people, why should I change myself?”

Mirusia and The Original Seekers, from $89.90, Oct 13, Concert Hall, QPAC, South Bank