Helen Reddy
Helen Maxine Reddy was an Australian-American singer, songwriter, author, actress, and activist. During the 1970s, Reddy enjoyed international success, especially in the United States. She was the first Australian to host a one-hour weekly primetime variety show on an American network. In 2011, Billboard named her the number-28 adult contemporary artist of all time. Reddy retired from live performance in 2002. She died in a car accident in 2012.
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Helen Maxine Reddy was an Australian-American singer, songwriter, author, actress, and activist. During the 1970s, Reddy enjoyed international success, especially in the United States. She was the first Australian to host a one-hour weekly primetime variety show on an American network. Reddy’s song \”I Am Woman\” played a significant role in popular culture, becoming an anthem for second-wave feminism. In 2011, Billboard named her the number-28 adult contemporary artist of all time. In 2013, the Chicago Tribune dubbed her the \”Queen of ’70s Pop\”. Reddy retired from live performance in 2002. She returned to university in Australia, earned a degree, and practised as a clinical hypnotherapist and motivational speaker. She is survived by her daughter, Traci, and her half-sister Toni Lamond and her nephew Tony Sheldon are actor-singers. Her great-great-grandfather Edward Reddy, born 1855, was born in Dublin, Ireland. Her father was a sergeant in the Australian Army with a unit of entertainers; he served alongside one of his actor friends, Peter Finch. Her mother performed at the Majestic Theatre in Sydney and was best known as a regular cast member on the television programs Homicide, Country Town, and Bellbird. She had Irish, Scottish, and English ancestry. Her paternal aunt, Helen Nell, was her aunt, who was her role model and gave her niece a sense of morality and strength for her future career as a singer.
The younger Helen’s marriage to Kenneth Weate, a considerably older musician and musician, ended in divorce and divorce ensued to support herself as a single mother. She eventually sang on radio and television, winning a talent contest and winning a ticket to New York City and a record audition, which was unsuccessful. She sang on the Australian vaudeville circuit, singing and dancing, until the age of 12. At age 12, she went touring nationwide with her paternal aunt. She went on to become a role model for her younger niece, who gave her stability, morality, and strength as a young woman. She retired from performing in 2011, after singing Breezin’ Along with the Breeze, for her daughter Traci’s birthday, and decided to return to live performing. Her last single, I Can’t Say Goodbye to You, became her last to chart in the US, as her single was seen in more than 40 countries in the 1980s and 1990s. She won the award for Favorite PopRock Female Artist at the inaugural American Music Awards, in 1974. She also acted in musicals and recorded albums such as Center Stage before retiring from liveperformance in 2002, and has written several children’s books and a children’s book about her experiences. She died in a car accident in 2012. She has been described as a “feminist poster girl” and “afeminist icon”
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