Bianca Joulianou is an artist from Sydney who released her first single, ‘Fool’, in 2022. Since then she has been performing live, sharing stages with artists such as Dylan Wright and Shannon Noll. She has a new single, ‘Gambling Man’, which contains a story close to her life and heart.

Joulianou began performing about five years ago, at a small pub in western Sydney, after teaching herself guitar to accompany her singing. Despite not coming from a musical family, their father's love for country music played a role in shaping their musical tastes.

As Joulianou told me in our recent interview, she began writing songs at the age of 16; the loss of her grandfather prompted her to be vulnerable in her songs and she hasn’t resiled from it since. ‘Gambling Man’ is an example of this, as it draws on her partner's past struggles with gambling and is a story of resilience and redemption.

‘I kind of wanted to write something that I could sing to him,’ says Jouliaou, ‘and he would be like, wow, look at what we've done. Look at what we've done together. This was our journey, and you've just written a song about it.’

By day Joulianou is a mental health support worker, and she has found inspiration for her songs in that work. And once she has an idea for a song, it’s all-encompassing.

‘When an idea comes to my head,’ she says, ‘I'm there all day … I can't move. I don't get hungry, I don't get thirsty. I'm just there, just writing.’

Joulianou performs as often as she can in and around Sydney, and you can next find her on 7 June 2025 at the Forever 21 Hoedown Throwdown in Picton, headlined by Missy Lancaster. Tickets available here.

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