Delta Goodrem
Australian singer, songwriter, musician and actress (born 1984)
Delta Lea Goodrem AM (born 9 November 1984) is an Australian singer, songwriter and actress. She has a total of nine number-one singles and 17 top-ten hits on the ARIA Singles Chart. She has sold over eight million albums globally and overall has won three World Music Awards, 12 ARIA Music Awards, an MTV Video Music Award and several other awards.
Goodrem signed a recording contract with Sony Music at the age of 15, in 1999. Her debut studio album, Innocent Eyes (2003), topped the ARIA Albums Chart for 29 non-consecutive weeks. It is one of the best-selling albums in Australia and is the second-best-selling Australian album of all time with over four million copies sold. Goodrem's second studio album, Mistaken Identity (2004), was recorded while she was undergoing treatment for cancer. It became her second number-one album. In 2007, Goodrem released Delta, her third number-one album, which included another number-one single, "In This Life". Her fourth studio album, Child of the Universe (2012), produced the single "Sitting on Top of the World".
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