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On the back of his big international hit 'Riptide', Vance Joy has marked himself out as one of Australia's most popular young singer-songwriters, rising from open mic nights in Melbourne to touring baseball stadiums with Taylor Swift. A talented Aussie rules footballer who played for his local side Coburg, James Gabriel Keogh was a big Metallica and Green Day fan in his teens and later completed a law degree, before really focusing on his music in 2012 and taking his Vance Joy stage name from a character in Peter Carey's darkly comic 1980s novel 'Bliss'. With an old school fri...