Dan Mullins is a Sydney-based singer/songwriter, broadcaster, podcaster and writer. He has more than 30 years' experience as a live performer at venues across Australia and overseas.
Dan is a storyteller, a six-string troubador with soaring vocals and lilting melodies. He’s played thousands of gigs, non-stop weekend after weekend, year after year.
He released the single, Somewhere Along the Way (the Camino Song) after walking 1,000 kilometres across Europe on the Camino de Santiago, the Way of St James. Dan was walking in the footsteps of millions of pilgrims before him. Their energy delivered the song straight to his heart.
The ensuing album 'Duende' spent more than a month at #2 on the ARIA Country charts and reached the top 40 of the ARIA Album chart.
The video for Somewhere Along the Way (the Camino Song) has more than 110,000 views.
His podcast, 'My Camino' features almost 400 interviews with pilgrims from all over the world. People tell their stories of love and life, sharing their motivations, fears and hopes. The podcast has achieved more than 1.5 million downloads.
In early 2023, Dan contracted a virus and lost his voice. He was told he would never sing again. Never one to shy away from a challenge, Dan knew if he wanted it bad enough, he'd overcome the hardship and one day sing again.
He undertook speech therapy and learned to speak again - and in late 2023, began singing again.
It was a magical journey from heartache to triumph ....and he decided to head back to the Camino in 2024 for a very special pilgrimage. To raise funds for his new album, 'Pilgrim', Dan invited people from around the world to donate to the record and used the funding to pay for studio time and musicians. Those donors walked the Camino with Dan in May 2024, on what he called his "Magical Musical Camino".
The resulting recording session for 'Pilgrim' was completed in June 2024 and the album is due in the second half of this year.
To cap things off in a truly special way, the musical Camino was filmed by a Canadian documentary filmmaker, Simon Burn. A feature-length documentary which will be a love letter to Spain and the Camino.
'Pilgrim' is an album about life, love, loss and learning to trust yourself in the face of extreme adversity. All personal journeys are pilgrimages of some kind. Dan's Camino from losing his voice to presenting his new album to the world has been all about the kindness and love of others.
The album, 'Pilgrim' and the documentary "Somewhere Along the Way" are due in the fourth quarter of 2024.
