Helen Reddy (1941–2020), singer songwriter, was born in Melbourne, where she began performing on stage with her parents at the age of four. After wining a talent contest on the TV music show Bandstand she moved to the USA in 1966. Twenty seven music labels rejected her before she signed with Capitol Records in 1970, but over the course of the decade she was to achieve 14 US Top 40 singles including three number ones. Her best known song is the anthem for women's liberation, I am Woman, inspired by Australian feminist and rock journalist Lillian Roxon. With more gold records at the time than any other female artist except Barbra Streisand, at the height of her fame in the late 1970s Reddy headlined with a full chorus of backup singers and dancers to standing room only crowds on the Las Vegas Strip.
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