Helen Maxine Reddy (born October 25, 1941) is an Australian singer, actress and activist. In the 1970s, he enjoyed international success, especially in the United States, where he placed 15 singles in the Top 40 of Billboard Hot 100. Six made Top 10 and three reached No. 1. 1, including his signature hit "I Am Woman". He is often referred to as the "Queen of '70s Pop".
Reddy put 25 songs on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart; 15 makes the Top 10 and eight reach No. 1, six in a row. In 1974, at the first American Music Awards, she became the first artist to win an award for Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist. On television, he was the first Australian to host his own weekly weekly weekly primetime event on the American network, along with some special events seen in over 40 countries.
Reddy retired from live performances in 2002, returned to university in Australia and earned his degree, and practiced as a hypnotherapist and clinical motivator. In 2011, after singing "Breezin 'Along with the Breeze" with his sister, Toni Lamond, for Toni's birthday, he decided to return to live.
The song "I Am Woman" plays a big role in popular culture and becomes the national anthem for second wave feminism. He became known as the "feminist poster girl" or "feminist icon". In 2011, Billboard named him as the 28th adult contemporary artist of all time (female No. 9).
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Initial years
Helen Maxine Reddy was born in a family of Melbourne's famous entertainment business in Melbourne on October 25, 1941 for her mother, Stella Campbell (nÃÆ' Â © e Lamond), an actress, and her father Maxwell David "Max" Reddy, a writer, producer and actor. During his childhood, he was educated at Tintern Grammar.
His stepbrother, Toni Lamond, and his nephew, Tony Sheldon, are actor-singers. Helen has an Irish, Scottish, and English ancestor. His great-grandfather, Thomas Lamond, is the mayor of Waterloo, New South Wales, whose patron is Hercules Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead. Her maternal grandmother, Stella Lamond ( nÃÆ' Â © e Pearl), is an actress, singer and dancer who sings and dances at the Majestic Theater in Sydney. He is best known as a regular cast member in the Homicide TV series (1964), City State (1971) and Bellbird (1967). Patsy Reddy, Governor-General of New Zealand, is a distant cousin.
Reddy was born during World War II, six weeks before the Pearl Harbor bombing. His father was a sergeant in the Australian Army with one entertaining unit; he serves with one of his friends, Peter Finch. They served together in New Guinea at the time of Helen's birth. His father returned to serve during the Korean War.
At the age of four, he joined his parents at the Australian vaudeville circuit, singing and dancing; he recalled: "It is implanted in me: You will be a star So between the ages of 12 and 17, I rebel and decide this is not for me I will be a housewife and mother. twelve years, due to his parents' continuous tour across the country and arguing, Reddy goes to live with his father's aunt Helen "Nell" Reddy, which is a nickname for the younger Helen. Younger adolescent Helen's rebellion in favor of the home was manifested as marriage with Kenneth Claude Weate, a musician and much older family friend; a divorce ensued and, to support her as a single mother for Traci's daughter, she resumed her career, concentrating on singing, due to health problems impeding the dance (she had kidney failure at age 17). He sings on radio and television, eventually winning a talent contest on the Australian pop music band Bandstand, a gift as if he was traveling to New York City to cut one for Mercury Records. Upon arriving in New York in 1966, he was informed by Mercury that his prize was just an opportunity to audition for the label and that Mercury considers Bandstand's tape as his audition. , which is considered unsuccessful. Despite having only $ 200 ($ 1,509 in 2017) and a return ticket to Australia, he chose to remain in the United States with a 3-year-old Traci and pursue a singing career.
Reddy recalled his performance in 1966 at the Three Rivers Inn in Syracuse, New York - "there were about twelve people in the audience" - as characteristic of his early US career. The lack of work permits makes it difficult to get a singing job in the US, and he is forced to make several trips to Canada that do not require a work permit for Commonwealth citizens like Australia. In the spring of 1968, Martin St. James - a hypnotist/entertainer and fellow Australians he met in New York City - held a Reddy party for $ 5 entrance fee (equivalent to $ 35 in 2017) to activate Reddy - then to Last $ 12 (equivalent to $ 84 in 2017) - to pay rent. It was on this occasion Reddy met the would-be manager and her husband, Jeff Wald, the 22-year-old secretary at the William Morris Agency who ran the party: Reddy told the People in 1975, [Wald] did not pay five dollars, it's love at first sight. "
Wald remembered that he and Reddy were married three days after the meeting and, together with Traci's daughter, the couple lived at the Albert Hotel in Greenwich Village. Reddy later stated that he married Wald "out of desperation for his right to work and live in the United States." According to a New York magazine, Wald was fired from William Morris soon after meeting Reddy, and "Helen supported them for six months at a $ 35 hospital and charity fee last night They were very divided, they slipped out of the room hotel while carrying their clothes in paper bags. "Reddy remembers:" When we ate, it was spaghetti, and we spent the little money we had for cockroach sprays. " They left New York City for Chicago and Wald got a job as a talent coordinator at Mister Kelly. While in Chicago, Reddy earned a singing reputation in the local lounge - including Mister Kelly - and, in the spring of 1968, he got a deal with Fontana Records, a division of the Chicago-based Mercury Records. His first single, "One Way Ticket", in Fontana was not an American hit, but it gave Reddy his first appearance on any chart when it reached number 83 in his native Australia.
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Within a year, Wald moved Reddy and Traci to Los Angeles, where he was employed on Capitol Records, a label in which Reddy would reach the star; However, Wald was hired and fired on the same day. At the same time, in 1969, Reddy enrolled at the University of California, Los Angeles to study parapsychology and part-time philosophy.
Reddy became frustrated because Wald found success managing actions like Deep Purple and Tiny Tim without making any real effort to promote it; After 18 months of inactivity in his career, Reddy gave Wald an ultimatum: "he [should] revitalize his career or get out... Jeff threw himself into his new career as Mr. Helen Reddy Five months from a phone call to the Capitol Records executive Artie Mogull finally paid off: Mogull agrees to let Helen cut off one if Jeff promises not to call for a month He does 'I Believe in Music' written by Mac Davis b/w 'I Do not Know How to Love Him' from Rice and Webber Jesus Christ Superstar The A-side fell flat but then some Canadian DJs reversed the record and... Became a hit - No. 13 in June 1971 - and Helen Reddy is on her way. "
Reddy's stardom solidified when the single "I Am Woman" reached No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100 in December 1972. The song was co-written by Reddy with Ray Burton; Reddy has linked the urge to write "I Am Woman" and the early awareness of the women's movement to excoriate Australian rock critics and pioneer feminist Lillian Roxon. Reddy is quoted in Fred Bronson's Billboard Book of Number One Hits as saying that he is looking for a song to record that reflects the positive self-image he gained from joining the women's movement but can not find anything, so " I realized that the song I was looking for did not exist, and I had to write it myself. "
"I Am Woman" was recorded and released in May 1972 but barely damaged the charts in its initial release. However, female listeners immediately adopted the song as a national anthem and began to request it from their local radio station in droves, so on the September chart re-entry and finally reached the peak. 1. "I Am Woman" won a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Appearance. At the awards ceremony, Reddy ended his acceptance speech with great thanks to God "because He made everything possible". The success of "I Am Woman" made Reddy the first Australian native to occupy the US charts.
Three decades after his Grammy, Reddy discussed the iconic status of the song: "I thought it was coming at the right time I was involved in the Women's Movement, and there were lots of songs on the radio about being weak and pretty and all that kind of stuff. I am, they are strong women They work They live through Depression and world war, and they are only strong women I certainly do not see myself as tiny, "he said.
Over the next five years after his first success, Reddy had more than a dozen Top 40 US hits, including two more hit no. 1. They include Kenny Rankin "Peaceful" (No. 12), Alex Harvey country ballads "Delta Dawn" (No. 1), Linda Laurie "Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress)" (No. 3), Austin Roberts' "Keep on Singing" (No. 15), Paul Williams' "You and Me Against the World" (featuring Traci's daughters reading the spoken reading) (No. 9), Alan O'Day's "Angie Baby" (No. 1), VÃÆ' Â © ronique Sanson's and Patti Dahlstrom's "Emotion" (No. 22), Harriet Schock "Is not No Way to Treat a Lady" (No. 8), and Richard Kerr/Will Jennings-writes "Somewhere in the Night "(No. 19; three years later a bigger hit for Barry Manilow). Reddy's sales volume for United Sales is estimated to exceed 10 million singles and 25 million albums; worldwide album sales are estimated at more than 80 million.
On July 23, 1974, Reddy received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work in the music industry, located at 1750 Vine Street.
At the height of his fame in the mid-1970s, Reddy was a top leader, with a singer and backup dance choir for the standing-only-room audience on The Strip in Las Vegas. Among the opening action of the Reddy are Joan Rivers, David Letterman, Bill Cosby, and Barry Manilow. In 1976, Reddy recorded The Beatles song "The Fool on the Hill" for the musical documentary All This and World War II .
Reddy also played a role in advancing Olivia Newton-John's friends' career, prompting him to move from England to the United States in the early 1970s, giving him the opportunity available to expand his career. At the next party at Reddy's house after an opportunity to meet with Allan Carr, the film producer, Newton-John later won a lead role in the hit movie version of the musical Grease .
Eclipse career
Reddy was most successful on the Easy Listening chart, scoring eight No. 1 hit there over a span of three years, from "Delta Dawn" in 1973 to "I Can not Hear You No More" in 1976. However, the latter track proved a sharp decline in popularity for Reddy, with No. 1 peak. 29 on Billiards Hot 100. Reddy remake of 1977 from Cilla Black 1964 hit "You're My World" shows the comeback potential, with Puncak 18, but this song - produced by Kim Fowley - will prove to be hit Top 40 Reddy last. Her album, Ear Candy, 10th album Reddy, will be her first album not to achieve at least Gold status since the second full-length release, 1972 Helen Reddy .
In 1978, Reddy sang as a backup singer on Gene Simmons's solo album on the song True Confessions .
The next eight of eight Reddy's in the Capitol, five reached Top 50 Easy Listening - including "Candle on the Water," from Disney 1977 movie Pete's Dragon (starring Reddy). Only three ratings on the Hot 100: "The Happy Girls" (No. 57) - follow-up from "You're My World" and, in addition to "I Am Woman", only Reddy graphic items are she wrote together - and the disco song "Ready or Not" (No. 73) and "Make Love to Me" (No. 60), the last cover of an Australian hit by Kelly Marie - who gave Reddy a R & ; B in No. 59. Reddy also ranks No. 98 in the country chart with "Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler", B-side for "The Happy Girls".
Without a boost from every major hits, Reddy's four Capitol albums release after Ear Candy failed the chart. In 1981, Reddy said: "I signed [with Capitol] ten years ago... And when you are with a company for so long you tend to be taken for granted.For the last three years, I do not feel getting support from them."
May 1981 saw the release of Play Me Out , Reddy's debut album for MCA Records, which Reddy said had "made me an agreement that we [Reddy and Wald] can not refuse"; "We shop and feel the greatest enthusiasm on the MCA." In fact, Reddy's new label affiliate will produce just one small success: a remake of Becky Hobbs's 1979 country entitled "I Can not Say Goodbye to You" returned it for the last time to Billboard Hot 100 in No. 1. 88; it also returns Reddy to the charts in England and Ireland (the only previous hits in both are "Angie Baby"). Reddy's November 14, 1981 Top of the Pops Performance brought "I Can not Say Goodbye to You" to the Top 50 UK; the track will go up no higher than No. 43, but in Ireland it reached No. 16, giving Reddy his last highest position on major national charts. MCA released one further Reddy album: Imagination , in 1983; it will prove to be Reddy's last release as a career recording artist.
The Imagination which failed to be released only after the finalization of divorce Reddy from Wald whose subsequent impediment in his career Reddy will blame for a decline in his career profile in the mid-1980s: " Some of my contracts were canceled, and a the promoter told me that he could not order me if someone came after him with a rifle.'Reddy stated that he was effectively blacklisted from his established show area, causing him to pursue a career in the theater, where Wald had no influence significant.
Later recording
In 1990, Reddy released Feel So Young on his own label - an album that included a remake of Reddy's favorite repertoire; one interim record is the 1987 "Maxi-single" dance "Mysterious Kind", in which Reddy vocally supports Jessica Williams. 1997 saw the release of the Stage Center, an album of the song that Reddy recorded for VarÃÆ'¨se Records; the song "Surrender" - originated from Sunset Boulevard - diremix to be released as a maxi-single dance. Reddy's last album to date is the 2000 seasonal release The Best Christmas Ever . In April 2015, Reddy released the Beatles cover "All You Need Is Love" for Keep Calm and Salute the Beatles album on Purple Pyramid label.
Movies, theaters, and television
Often a guest on talk shows and various programs of the 1970s and early 1980s - with credits including The Bobby Darin Show, The Carol Burnett Show , and > The Muppet Show - Reddy leads the 1973 summer series for The Flip Wilson Show (Reddy has been friends with Flip Wilson when he worked at the Chicago club circuit early in his career); series, The Helen Reddy Show , providing early national exposure to Albert Brooks and Pointer Sisters. Also in 1973, Reddy hosted the semi-regular NBC Night variety show The Midnight Special, a position he held until 1975.
His film career included a leading role in Walt Disney's Pete's Dragon, introducing Oscar-nominated song "Candle on the Water" and an extended too as a nun at Airport 1975, singing his own compositions " Best friend". For its part at Airport 1975 , Reddy is nominated for the Golden Globe for the Most Promising New Arrivals - Women. Reddy is one of the many music stars featured in the all-star chorale in the movie Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978), and has since been playing a cameo role in the film Disorderlies (1987) and The Perfect Host (2010).
Despite the end of the 1970s chart, Reddy still had enough star power in 1979 to host the "The Helen Reddy Special" aired in May, on ABC-TV; Jeff Wald is the producer. In September 1981, Reddy announced he would shoot the pilot for his own TV sitcom, where he would play a single mom who worked as a singer at Lake Tahoe. However, the project is abandoned. Reddy has been an occasional guest television guest as an actress, appearing in the series The Love Boat Fantasy Island , The Jeffersons (as her), > Diagnosis: Murder and BeastMaster .
In 2007, Reddy had a cameo voice as himself on Star Wars's parody show "Blue Harvest". He plays Red'-reded (Red'-dy) members of the Red Squadron, alongside Red Five (Chris Griffin), Red Buttons, Redd Foxx, Big Red, Red October, Simply Red, and others. In 2010, she became a guest star on Family Guy who again sang the opening theme song for the event's Channel 5 News fiction broadcast.
In the mid-1980s, Reddy started a new career in the theater. Reddy mostly works in the musical including Anything Goes , Call Me Madam , the Mystery Edwin Drood , and - both at Broadway and West End - Blood Brothers . She also appeared in four production of the one-woman event of Shirley Valentine .
Famous stage roles include:
- Shirley Valentine - as Shirley
- Stage West, Canada (June 1997)
- 12 tour of city A. (February - April 1996)
- Theater-By-the-Sea, Rhode Island (1995)
- Blood Brothers - as Ny. Johnstone
- West End (1997)
- Music Box Theater, Broadway (January - May 1995)
- Empire Theater, Liverpool (1995)
- Love, Julie - as Gail Sinclair
- Sharon Stage, Connecticut (August 1996)
- Cape Cod (July 1996)
- Westport Country Playhouse (June 1996)
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood - as Edwin Drood/Miss Alice Nutting
- Sacramento Music Circus (July 1988)
- Call me Madam - as Ny. Sally Adams
- Sacramento Music Circus (August 1986)
- Whatever Happened - as Reno Sweeney
- Long Beach Civic Light Opera (July 1987)
- Sacramento Music Circus (July 1985)
pension 2002
Reddy announced his retirement from performing in 2002, giving his parting performance with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. That same year, he moved from his old residence in Santa Monica, California back to his home country, Australia, to spend time with his family, first stay on Norfolk Island, before living in Sydney. He also earned degrees in clinical hypnotherapy and neuro-linguistic programming. He is a clinical and protective hypnotherapist from the Australian Society of Clinical Hypnotherapists.
In April 2008, Reddy reportedly lived "simple and cost-efficient song royalties, pension funds, and social security... [renting] 13th floor apartments with 180-degree views of Sydney Harbor." His apartment was recently assessed, causing Reddy's concerns about his affordability in the future; However, the New York homeowner studied the identity of the tenant and wrote: "I do not know it * * Helen Reddy who lives in my unit Because of what you have done for millions of women around the world, I will not sell or raise rent You, I hope you will be very happy to live there for years to come. "
For several years, Reddy declared that he would not return to the stage. In 2008, he stated, "It's not going to happen, I've moved," and explained that his voice had been deepened to a lower key and he was not sure if he would be able to sing some of his hits. He also said that he lost interest in performing. "I have a very wide interest," he said. "So, singing 'Leave Me Alone' 43 times per song loses its charm a long time ago."
In 2011 she was interviewed by Australian television and said she was very happy to be retired from the show business.
short comeback to concert
In 2012, Reddy decided to re-appear after being supported by the warm welcome he received when he sang at his sister's 80th birthday party. "I did not hear my voice in 10 years, and when I heard it sounded from the speaker, it was like: 'Oh, it's not bad Maybe I should do it again,'" Reddy explained in 2013. On July 12, 2012, Reddy returned stage music at Croce's Jazz Bar in San Diego and for a charity concert for art in St. Louis. Genevieve High School in Panorama City, a neighborhood in Los Angeles. Reddy also sang a duet ("You're Just in Love") with a member of the senior choir Rosalind Smith.
Being more responsible for his performance also appealed to Reddy, who said, "I have more leeway in the songs I choose to sing, I do not lock what the recording company wants." He explains, "One of the reasons why I'm singing again is because I do not do the greatest songs, I do the songs I always love, so many albums are never played, and they are beautiful songs." He also did a lot his most famous songs, including, "Angie Baby," "You and Me Against the World", the medley of "Delta Dawn"/"Is not No Way to Treat a Lady," and "I Am Woman," are grounded on the latter that it is a typical song and that is heard by the audience ".
She maintains, however, that she still refuses to sing "Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress)" because she does not like the monotony of a recurring chorus. "They had a contest on the radio that you can get two free tickets for Helen Reddy's show if you can tell us how many times she sings 'leave me alone.' I think it's like 42 times, "he said.
Reddy performs at Paramount nightclub at The Crown & amp; Anchor at Provincetown on October 13, 2013. She performed two nights at Catalina Supper Club, Los Angeles in November 2014, shortly after her 73rd birthday. Next January 2015, Reddy performed two nights at the Orleans Hotel Showroom in Las Vegas.
Reddy appeared in downtown Los Angeles in 2017 Women March on January 21. The march for women's rights and union after the inauguration of Donald Trump brought out 750,000 people. Reddy was introduced by actress Jamie Lee Curtis and sang an acappella version of her song, "I Am Woman".
Personal life
Political, citizenship service
Reddy became a naturalized American citizen in 1974; "I feel like I want to drink tea and cry," Reddy said after the ceremony. He continued his Australian citizenship when the next opportunity to retain dual American/Australian citizenship became available.
Reddy has been active in community affairs:
- In the 1970s he helped raise millions of dollars for Democratic political candidates.
- In 1978, California Governor Jerry Brown appointed Reddy to a commission of nine members overseeing the California Department of Parks and Recreation. The nomination was unanimously approved. He served on commission for three years.
Family
Reddy is an enthusiastic genealogist; he has explored the history of his family extensively and founded the Tasmanian Genealogical Society. "The pedigree is addictive, beginning as an interest, into a hobby, then a passion, and ultimately an obsession." Not only with every generation found, the number of people examined doubles but also the desire to understand the forces that make up them, "he wrote in his autobiography.
Reddy was once asked in an interview whether his name has connections to Reddy caste from India. The answer is: "I have done my father's research, most of my research has been done on my mother's side, his father was born in Ireland, but his great-grandfather served with an Irish regiment stationed in India so it is possible that I have Indian ancestry, not yet established. "
At the age of 20, Helen is married to Kenneth Claude Weate, a much older musician and family friend whom she says she wants to oppose her parents, who hope she follows them into the show business. The couple split up shortly after the birth of their daughter, Traci.
In 1968, he married Jeff Wald, who came from The Bronx. He converted to Judaism before marrying Wald, with whom he had a son, Jordan, born in 1972.
In a 1975 Interview Person , Reddy admitted that his relationship with husband and manager was unstable Wald with the couple having a "big and healthy fight" but that he owed his success (he is the most vocalist of women success for two years in a row) to Wald: " He runs everything, naturally when the moment of appearance comes I have to deliver - but the other is him.This is not my career, this is our career ."
On January 2, 1981, Reddy and Wald have split up and he moved to a Beverly Hills rehab facility to treat an eight-year-old cocaine addiction, the custom of 100,000 US dollars per year (US $ 253,586 in 2017). Reddy then filed for divorce, but withdrew his plea the day after filing it, stating: " After thirteen years of marriage, the one-month separation is too short to make a decision." In 1982, after discovering substance abuse substance Wald, Reddy once again separated from him and started the divorce process, this time taking place in January 1983. They agreed to share custody of their son Jordan, but later became involved in court battle after both applying sole custody. His son later changed the name of his family to Sommers and became his assistant.
In June 1983, he married Milton Ruth, a drummer in his band; the couple divorced in 1995.
In popular culture
In 1979, the Supersisters trade card sets were produced and distributed; one of the cards displays the name and picture of Reddy.
Reddy mentioned in the lyrics for the song "Honey, Do not You Want a Man Like Me?" on the 1977 album Frank Zappa Zappa in New York .
A biopic about Reddy, titled "I Am Woman" was announced in mid-2016 with Unjoo Moon as the film's director. In October 2017, it was announced that Australian actress Tilda Cobham-Hervey will play Reddy in the film.
Discography
Bibliography
- Reddy, Helen (2006). The Woman I Am . Penguin Books. ISBN: 978-1-58542-489-4.
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References
External links
- HelenReddy.com, Reddy's official website
- Helen Reddy on IMDb
- Reddy in classicalbands
- "I Am Woman" - an additional year 2009 for the recording of the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia
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