Sia

Sia Kate Isobelle Furler (born 18 December 1975) is an Australian singer and songwriter. Sia's 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 mid-1990s. 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 Music's sub-label 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 project's 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 U.S.Billboard200and generated the top-ten single "Chandelier" and a trilogy of Music videos co-directed by Sia and starring child dancerMaddie 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 firstBillboardHot 100number one single, "Cheap Thrills". The same year, she began herNostalgic 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 andreissuedin 2018 with three bonus tracks. In 2018, she collaborated withLabrinthandDiploin the groupLSD, and they released theirself-titled debut albumin April 2019. Sia has written many songs for films, and she directed a feature film, titledMusic, which was released in early 2021 alongside an album,Music – Songs from and Inspired by the Motion Picture.Among theaccoladesreceived by Sia are nearly a dozenARIA Awards, 9Grammy Awardnominations and anMTV Video Music Award.In the 2014South Parkepisode "The Cissy", Sia provided the vocals for the fictionalLordetrack "Push (Feeling Good on a Wednesday)".In 2016, Sia covered "Blackbird" byThe Beatlesfor theNetflixoriginal seriesBeat Bugs. She was the voice of pop star Songbird Serenade in the 2017 animated filmMy Little Pony: The Movie and she contributed an original song, "Rainbow", tothe film's soundtrack. She wrote the songs for thesoundtrackto the 2018 Musical filmVox Lux, with a score byScott 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 HudsonandLeslie Odom Jr. She also directed the film and wrote its soundtrack. It was nominated forBest Motion Picture – Musical or Comedyat the78th Golden Globe Awards. As director, Sia later won theGolden Raspberry Award for Worst Director.