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Delta Goodrem
Delta Goodrem (born November 9, 1984) is an Australian singer and actress, who once starred as "Nina Tucker" on the television soap opera Neighbours.
Delta Goodrem has had an interest in music, acting and sport from a young age, and appeared in television commercials and acted in many different television shows in Australia. At the age of seven Delta appeared in an American commercial for Galoob Toys.
Her debut album Innocent Eyes was released March 3, 2003, and has been in the charts at or near the top since, and features five Australian No 1 singles. Most of the songs were written by Goodrem herself, and feature her instrumental skills on the piano as well as her voice.
So far, five singles have been released from Innocent Eyes and all have reached the number one spot in Australia:
- "Born to Try"
- "Lost Without You"
- "Innocent Eyes"
- "Not Me, Not I"
- "Predictable"
In the midst of promoting her album, in mid-2003 she announced that she had Hodgkin's lymphoma, a form of cancer, and ceased work to begin treatment for the disease. Luckily, she was cured of it, and she has to await another ten years to find out whether the treatment was successful...
On October 4, 2003, while Goodrem was undergoing treatment, it was announced she was parting ways with her manager, Glenn Wheatley , one of Australia's best-known and most successful managers of popular musicians, apparently much to the surprise of Wheatley.
Her love case with tennis pro Mark Philippoussis is now becoming one of the world's most high profiled love stories fans are raming after.
Goodrem capped off a professionally successful, though obviously personally traumatic, year by winning a record seven ARIA awards on October 21, 2003. She broke the previous record of six, held by Natalie Imbruglia. In the first week of December 2003 Innocent Eyes broke John Farnham's Australian record of 25 consecutive weeks at No 1 (Whispering Jack (1986)). In total, Innocent Eyes has spent 29 weeks at No 1 and tying her with Neil Diamond's Hot August Night (1972), as the second longest charting number one album in Australian history. Her album, Innocent Eyes has gone over 14x platinum in Australia alone, with sales in the United Kingdom reaching a high level as well.
Her DVD entitled Delta has been a huge success in both Australia and the United Kingdom and features many videos depicting her life up until now.
As of January 2004, Goodrem was well enough to attend the 2004 Australian Open at length, where she prominently supported Australian player Mark Philippoussis. She continued her support at the Wimbledon tournament.
In February 2004 it was announced Goodrem had won the lead role in the Australian comedy film Hating Alison Ashley , the movie based on the novel by Robin Klein.
Goodrem's second album Mistaken Identity is scheduled for release in November 2004.
Discography
- Innocent Eyes - (2003)
- Innocent Eyes - (2003) (Limited edition)
- Delta - Innocent Eyes - (2003) (DVD)