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BIOGRAPHY

Delta Goodrem
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Delta Lea Goodrem, born November 9, 1984, is a multi-ARIA Award winning Australian singer-songwriter, pianist and Logie Award winning actress.

Signed to Sony at the age of 15, Goodrem rose to prominence in 2002 as a result of her role in the Australian television series Neighbours. She has become one of Australia's highest selling recording artists, her albums Innocent Eyes and Mistaken Identity both entering the Australian charts at number one with multi-platinum sales. Goodrem has to date, achieved seven number one singles and in mid-2005, embarked on The Visualise Tour, her debut concert tour of Australia. In 2003, at the age of 18, amidst her blooming career, Goodrem was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma, a form of cancer. She has since made a full recovery. She is known for playing the piano in her bare feet.

Goodrem was born on November 9, 1984 in Sydney, New South Wales to parents Denis and Lea Goodrem and has a younger brother named Trent. Goodrem, who showed a strong interest in music and performing from a very young age, attended The Hills Grammar School, though due to its curriculum placing strong emphasis on sport (Goodrem taking part in netball, running and swimming), music was primarily kept separate. At the age of seven, she appeared in an American commercial for the Galoob toy company, starring alongside fellow Australian Bec Cartwright and began piano at ten years of age while taking up singing, dancing and acting lessons. She appeared in numerous commercials for companies such as Optus and Nesquik, and had several minor roles in episodes of successful Australian shows including Hey Dad...!, A Country Practice and Police Rescue. Some of the money earned from these roles went towards recording a demo CD.

At the age of thirteen, Goodrem recorded a demo CD of five songs. It was sent to the Sydney Swans Football Club (of which Goodrem is a supporter) and they passed it onto Glenn Wheatley, the manager behind successful Australian artists, Little River Band and John Farnham. Interested in Goodrem's potential as a recording artist, Wheatley signed Goodrem an artist development deal with independent label, Empire Records. Between June 1999 to September 2000, she worked with producers Paul Higgins and Trevor Carter on thirteen tracks for an album called Delta, which saw "an ambitious 15-year-old keen to emulate the pop sound of the Spice Girls, Britney Spears and Mandy Moore".The album has yet to surface, Goodrem preventing its release years later via civil action in 2004.. Delta also participated in the Kool Skools program, which is run by Paul Higgins' and Trevor Carter's studio.

In April 2005, Goodrem's international record contract was extended to the United States with Columbia Records, and she relocated herself in New York to a re-worked version of "Lost Without You". Reports circulated that Columbia had issued an ultimatum with Goodrem, asking to drop mother Lea Goodrem as her manager, though this was denied by both Goodrem and her mother who stated there had always been plans to hire a new manager for the US. "Lost Without You" was released as a digital single in June 2005 but was only a limited success, peaking at number eighteen on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart but failing to enter the Billboard Hot 100. Plans to release a hybrid of her first two albums, entitled Born to Try have since been terminated and Goodrem looks to have put America on hold.

On March 15, 2006, Goodrem performed a new song "Together We Are One" at the opening ceremony of the 2006 Commonwealth Games in front of 80,000 spectators and up to 1.5 billion television viewers worldwide. "Together We Are One" was released as an Australian single, reaching number two. In June, Goodrem signed to Modest! Entertainment for her world-wide management. In later 2006, Goodrem began promoting in Japan with the release of her album Innocent Eyes, a compilation of songs from her two studio albums and the single "Flawed" which appears in the Japanese film, Adiantum Blue. The album has to date peaked at number eight on the Japanese international chart (excluding Japanese artists) and number nineteen on the official Japanese album chart (including Japanese artists). In November, Goodrem appeared with Westlife on The X Factor to perform a duet titled "All Out of Love" and was in Melbourne on Christmas Eve to perform at the annual Carols by Candlelight.

In 2002, Goodrem took up the role as shy school girl and aspiring singer Nina Tucker in the long-running Australian soap Neighbours. Like former Neighbours actresses turned pop singers, Kylie Minogue, Holly Valance and Natalie Imbruglia, the show helped Goodrem launch her career as a singer. Her single "Born to Try" premiered on the show when Tucker's secret singing talents are discovered. Goodrem ceased work on the show when diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma in mid-2003, but following her recovery, made a brief return to the show. Goodrem's role scored her a Silver Logie for "Most Popular New Talent" at the 2003 Logie Awards and two other nominations at the 2004 Logie Awards. Since Neighbours, Goodrem has appeared in the last two episodes of short-lived American series, North Shore, playing a singer named Taylor Ward.

In March 2005, she starred in her first film role of Hating Alison Ashley, a movie based on the popular children's novel, Goodrem acting the title character. Despite a #4 debut on the Australian box office charts, the film performed poorly overall. Some critics accused Goodrem's performance of being too robotic and detached.