Brooke Fraser is an award-winning New Zealand singer-songwriter. She is also one of the principal worship leaders of the Christian worship band Hillsong United and, more recently, Hillsong.

Brooke grew up in Naenae, Lower Hutt and attended Dyer Street School then Naenae Intermediate and Naenae College. She started taking piano lessons when she was seven, continuing until seventeen. She started writing songs at age twelve and taught herself the acoustic guitar at fifteen. Notably, she has never taken any singing lessons.

She performed at Parachute, an annual New Zealand music festival, and has continued to do so each year since 2000 - including a special guest performance in 2007.

Brooke was a presenter on a cable television show. She began writing for the Soul Purpose Magazine at age fifteen and was later made editor in 2002. She gave up her job as editor shortly after moving to Auckland in late 2002 in order to pursue her music career.

In late 2002 Brooke ended up signing a multi-album deal with Sony Music Entertainment New Zealand. Her first album, What To Do With Daylight, was released in New Zealand in late 2003, debuting at #1 and achieved gold-selling status in the same week. The album eventually went 7 times platinum, selling over 100,000 copies in New Zealand alone. She remained on the album charts for a record 66 weeks. All five singles from her album reached the top 20 RIANZ charts, the official singles chart of New Zealand. Her album was the second best selling NZ album of 2004.

Following the release of What To Do With Daylight, Fraser toured Australia and New Zealand with American artist John Mayerand then toured New Zealand with veteran U.K. rock artist David Bowie

In 2005, prior to writing and preparing her follow-up album, Fraser took a trip to Africa to immerse herself in Rwanda before visiting her sponsor children in Tanzania, as she is an advocate for child sponsorship. In this trip, she was so moved that she wrote the song "Albertine" about a young child (named Albertine), whom she met while in Rwanda. It was later decided to make this song the album's title track.

For the second album, Fraser decided to enlist a new band. In 2006, Fraser and the band went into the studio in Los Angeles to record the album. The album's first single, "Deciphering Me," was released initially to radio and ultimately to CD single, and achieved #4 in the New Zealand single charts.

On December 4, 2006 Albertine was released in New Zealand, achieving double platinum status less than a month after its release and has remained, to date, in the top 20 every week since. The album was released in Australia and internationally on March 31, 2007. In Australia, it charted at #29 in its first week on April 9.

Albertine was also Brooke's U.S. debut, released May 27, 2008 and entered the Billboard 200 at #90 on July 19, 2008.