Samantha Cauliflower was born into a family that descended from Irish potato farmers who immigrated to Australia during The Great Potato Famine. They settled in the Riverland and farmed an alternative white spherical vegetable - the Cauliflower, until the Great Floods of 1957 saw their farm washed out.
Samantha took to writing music as a young teen, but only published her first CD in 2001, a live recording of her second ever public performance, titled “The Red Velvet Tour”. Recorded live at the Grace Emily Hotel in Adelaide on Wednesday the 15th December 2001.
Her second release was called “Sketches” and was released on the 16th September 2006 at the Grace Emily Hotel, and formed part of an exhibition of her recent painting works from the time, and a performance of some of the songs.
Quintastella was Samantha Cauliflower's rock band from 2006-2009. Much fun was had.
Samantha’s third release was recorded at a challenging time, after the death of her parents. The aim was to record the back catalogue of songs that she had written, and “All The Pretty Lights” was the result, recorded in 2013. Samantha is the first to admit that this singing effort is not her greatest, however her aim amongst the anxiety of the time, was to create an archived record of her songs not yet recorded previously. This album was launched in Adelaide at the Grace Emily Hotel, Olive Pink Gardens in Alice Springs, and at the Drunken Poet in Melbourne in 2013.
Launching on her own label, Purple Nipple Music in 2018, Samantha’s fourth CD and ventured into the genre of retro Dance/EDM. Called ‘12 The Album’, it features 12 tracks in 12 different sub genres of dance. It has been available from Beatport.com from September 2018. It was officially launched at the Cumberland Hotel on the 19th September 2018.
In December 2019, Samantha embarked on a new writing project: Polyamorous Love Letters – Volume One. Feeling the need to connect with love again, and imagine polyamorous connections, she began writing what turned out to be a four-volume series of love letters, written to a faceless man and faceless woman. As her muse they allowed Samantha to engage and feed the love of new relationships, and to love through an arc of one’s life with the two lovers. Eighty-eight letters in all were written in what Samantha has describes as a very satisfying project.
Late in 2020, not only has Samantha embarked on another letter writing project, but also published an EP of 6 tracks. Titled, “Not While Driving – Drum and Bass Meditations”, the six tracks were a further exploration of play in drum and bass, and in making mediation or chilled dance music. This EP was released in December 2020 on Beatport.com
