“Challenges don’t go away,” Guy Sebastian tells Apple Music. “But neither do the good times.” That natural balance of life experience comes through in his quite varied songbook, which is just as likely to hold space for deep emotion as slip into joyful release. In the former camp sits “Angels Brought Me Here,” the top-selling Australian single of 2003 thanks to Sebastian’s victory in the debut season of Australian Idol. In the latter camp are frisky teamups with American rappers like Eve and Lupe Fiasco, as well as committed forays into rock, soul, and R&B across the 2010s—including his smash 2012 album Armageddon. In more recent years, Sebastian has turned in powerful work farewelling lost friends (2019’s “Choir”) and saluting motherly wisdom (2023’s “I Chose Good”). On 2025’s “Strangers,” he explores how breakups shut out those with whom we were most intimate, while the same year’s “Get It Done” revisits his naïve early days in the music industry. Whatever mood he’s in as a songwriter, Sebastian’s heartfelt vocals can always nail exactly what he’s feeling.