Sia

Sia Kate Isobelle Furler born 18 December 1975 is an Australian singer and songwriter Sias music incorporates hip hop funk and soul as a base for her vocal styling She started her career as a singer in the local Adelaide acid jazz band Crisp in the mid1990s In 1997 when Crisp disbanded she released her debut studio album titled OnlySee on Flavoured Records in Australia Following the event she moved to London England and provided lead vocals for British duo Zero 7 In 2000 Sia signed to Sony Musics sublabel Dance Pool and released her second studio album Healing Is Difficult the following year Displeased with the promotion of the record she signed to Go Beat and released her third studio album Colour the Small One in 2004 Dissatisfied with the projects struggling to connect with a mainstream audience Sia relocated to New York City in 2005 and began touring across the United States Sia released her fourth and fifth studio releases Some People Have Real Problems and We Are Born in 2008 and 2010 respectively In 2014 Sia broke through as a solo recording artist when her sixth studio album 1000 Forms of Fear debuted at No 1 in the US Billboard 200 and generated the topten single Chandelier and a trilogy of music videos codirected by Sia and starring child dancer Maddie Ziegler Since then Sia has usually worn a wig that obscures her face to protect her privacy Her seventh studio album This Is Acting 2016 spawned her first Billboard Hot 100 number one single Cheap Thrills The same year she began her Nostalgic for the Present Tour which incorporated dancing by Ziegler and others and other performance art elements Her eighth studio album Everyday Is Christmas was released in 2017 and reissued in 2018 with three bonus tracks In 2018 she collaborated with Labrinth and Diplo in the group LSD and they released their selftitled debut album in April 2019 Sia has written many songs for films and she directed a feature film titled Music which was released in early 2021 alongside an album Music Songs from and Inspired by the Motion Picture Among the accolades received by Sia are nearly a dozen ARIA Awards 9 Grammy Award nominations and an MTV Video Music Award In the 2014 South Park episode The Cissy Sia provided the vocals for the fictional Lorde track Push Feeling Good on a Wednesday In 2016 Sia covered Blackbird by The Beatles for the Netflix original series Beat Bugs She was the voice of pop star Songbird Serenade in the 2017 animated film My Little Pony The Movie and she contributed an original song Rainbow to the films soundtrack She wrote the songs for the soundtrack to the 2018 musical film Vox Lux with a score by Scott Walker She wrote a screenplay based on a story that she had written in 2007 for the 2021 musical film Music which starred Ziegler Kate Hudson and Leslie Odom Jr She also directed the film and wrote its soundtrack It was nominated for Best Motion Picture Musical or Comedy at the 78th Golden Globe Awards As director Sia later won the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director