Helen Reddy
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Job / Known for: Singer and activist
Left traces: I Am Woman and other hit songs, Grammy award
Born
Date: 1941-10-25
Location: AU Melbourne, Victoria
Died
Date: 2020-09-29 (aged 79)
Resting place: US Los Angeles, California
Death Cause: Dementia
Family
Spouse: Claude Weate (1961–1966), Jeff Wald (1968–1981), Milton Ruth (1983–1995)
Children: Traci Wald Donat and Jordan Sommers
Parent(s): Max Reddy and Stella Lamond (both deceased)
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Helen Reddy

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I am woman hear me roar
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Helen Reddy was an Australian American singer actress, television host and activist. Born in Melbourne to a showbusiness family Reddy started her career as an entertainer at age four. She sang on radio and television and won a talent contest on the television program Bandstand in 1966 her prize was a ticket to New York City and a record audition, which was unsuccessful. After a short and unsuccessful singing career in New York, she eventually moved to Chicago, and subsequently, Los Angeles, where she made her debut singles One Way Ticket and I Believe in Music in 1968 and 1970, respectively. The B-side of the latter single, I Don't Know How to Love Him , reached number eight on the pop chart of the Canadian magazine RPM. She was signed to Capitol Records a year later. During the 1970s, Reddy enjoyed international success, especially in the United States, where she placed 15 singles on the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100. Six made the top 10 and three reached number one, including her signature hit I Am Woman. She placed 25 songs on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart 15 made the top 10 and eight reached number one, six consecutively. In 1974, at the inaugural American Music Awards, she won the award for Favorite Pop Rock Female Artist. On television, she was the first Australian to host a one hour weekly primetime variety show on an American network, along with specials that were seen in more than 40 countries. Between the 1980s and 1990s, as her single I Can't Say Goodbye to You became her last to chart in the US Reddy acted in musicals and recorded albums such as Center Stage before retiring from live performance in 2002. She returned to university in Australia earned a degree, and practised as a clinical hypnotherapist and motivational speaker. In 2011 after singing Breezin Along with the Breeze with her half sister Toni Lamond, for Lamond's birthday, Reddy decided to return to live performing. Reddy's song I Am Woman played a significant role in popular culture becoming an anthem for second wave feminism. She came to be known as a feminist poster girl or a feminist icon In 2011 Billboard named her the number 28 adult contemporary artist of all time the number-9 woman. She died on 29 September 2020 at the age of 78 from dementia in Los Angeles.
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