His career began at the age of eight when he started performing in his family's band in his home town of Beaudesert in Queensland.

Even at such a young age Price knew where his destiny lay.

"The family band was a tradition started by my uncles and aunties," he tells Weekender.

"Beaudesert is surrounded by a lot of small farming communities and they all have their own community hall, and we used to play at these places on Friday and Saturday nights.

"As we improved we used to play at local dances and then graduated to playing clubs around the Brisbane and Gold Coast areas. It was a wonderful part of my childhood."

Even then, pursuing music as a career was his ambition.

"I knew from a very early age that that's what I wanted to do. When we started to play bigger clubs it became apparent that this could become a full-time career for me and when I started writing songs, well, that secured the foundation of a recording career for me."

Price released chart-topping album Heaven Knows in 1992. Due to its massive success, the following year Sony/Columbia Records re-released Heaven Knows with a special limited edition bonus disc - Rarities - an acoustic CD with tracks Listen To Your Heart, If You Were My Baby, Wishin', We've Got Each Other, Not A Day Goes By, Where Are You Now and Peter Allen's global hit Tenterfield Saddler.

Fast forward a couple of decades and Price remains an established artist in his own right, but is also a music producer living in the US.

"I decided to go on a musical excursion to the States and have been there ever since. That was 10 years ago," he says.

"It's just a great musical community to be surrounded by - there is an incredible pool of musicians to call on and it makes the recording process so much more fun.

"Sometimes I'll be making a jazz-style record, or it might be more of a singer-songwriter folk-rock kind of record, and I'll need different players for different tasks.

"Mixing styles up keeps things more interesting and that has been a great blessing over the years; to have that opportunity to make different styles of records."

Last year was a busy one for Price. His Heaven Knows tour sold out venues across Australia and he worked with Samantha Jade, Dami Im, David Campbell and Chris Isaak, to name a few.

He has returned to Australia this month to tour Rarities, live and acoustic, plus some special tracks never played before on stage. Price says he still enjoys performing his older hits.

"After you write and record songs and put them out, they develop a life of their own," he explains.

"People have their own relationship with the songs that has nothing essentially to do with me. So when I go out and perform it's like a school reunion, in a way.

"It's a peculiar thing and hard to put into words but it's such a great experience to be in the moment, revisiting those songs with new audiences and realising that the connection you have with an audience, it's not a visible thing but it's certainly tangible inside your body and psyche."

And yes, he can still hit those famously high notes.

"I can but it doesn't mean that I do all the time," Price says.

"I find that I don't need to sing up that high all the time as much as I did. I felt like it was part of my style when I was a younger singer but the older I get I am preferring, in some ways, more of a conversationalist style of singing.

"The songs are about the lyrics for me now but don't get me wrong, I still do love to get up there and stretch the vocal chords."