5 Minutes with Australian Singer-Songwriter Peach PRC
We speak to Peach PRC about her music, signature pink style and beauty habits
If you keep up with pop music, you’ve probably heard of Australian singer-songwriter Peach PRC. She’s hard to miss wearing her signature all-pink style and cosmic-esque makeup looks, headlining festivals in Australia, the United Kingdom and Europe, and playing her solo shows.
Born Sharlee Jade Curnow, the singer leads a double life with her musical alter ego Peach PRC, a moniker that allows Curnow some privacy when it comes to living with her new-found fame. “I think we used to be the same person but I’ve slowly begun separating them, mostly because I think it’s fun and it makes me feel like Hannah Montana,” she explains. “It’s actually quite hard having everything stripped back and on display like that with no privacy, so I leave the honesty for the music now, like a window, instead of having a whole front door open.”
With an active presence on social media, it’s no surprise that Peach PRC has become one of the industry’s rising starlets in modern music, where she continues to showcase her talents in various genres like synthpop, electropop, and dance-pop.
Since her debut, the artist has garnered a following of 284k on Instagram and 2.2 million on TikTok. “It’s a lot busier, but all the more rewarding,” she says of her growing fame. “I get recognised a lot, which is sweet, but it means that things like going to concerts and festivals aren’t the same anymore. I have to find a place away from the crowd if I want to watch the performances or go in a full disguise. But then again, it’s the ‘Hannah Montana’ of it all and I can’t complain.”
Influenced by artists from the early to mid-2010s like Katy Perry, Kesha, 3OH!3, and Carly Rae Jepsen, Peach PRC felt motivated to bring the light-hearted sound associated with that era back with her own music. “It was just so fun,” she says. “I miss when pop was just silly and camp, and didn’t take itself so seriously.” She’s just put out her Manic Dream Pixie EP, with its title coming from some of the lyrics in her track “Heavy”. The trope linked to the title itself is not something Peach PRC wishes for anyone to strive for, even though she resonated with it at one point in her life.
“She’s a surface-level vessel for the male protagonist’s own character development, but we never hear her story,” she says. “At the time, I felt like that’s all I was for people, just character development but not someone worth investing in because I was a hard burden to bear.”
Through hardship and growth, Peach PRC has evolved to become a more confident person in her music and style; her all-pink look being one of the main things she’s associated with. “My style is obviously very pink and hyper-feminine,” she says. “I’m not sure what genre I would even label it but I take inspiration from fantasy and girlhood, characters like Barbie, and Shirley Barber illustrations.”
When it comes to beauty, Peach PRC relies on one trusted product for her looks: pink lipstick, often doing full makeup looks with just that. “I’m also lucky to have had professional training in makeup,” she adds. “It was one of the many jobs I did before this. To me, more is always more.”
Besides headlining a festival in Sydney and having several gigs scheduled from now until the end of the year, Peach PRC aims to put out new music soon. “I’m working on so many new songs,” she shares. “I want to put an album out as soon as possible and start shooting all of these music video concepts I have!”
