About Delta
It's just the beginning, is something that Delta Goodrem says all the time, But what a beginning - Born To Try, the first single from Delta's debut album, took the Australian charts by storm, going to number one. It stayed in the Top 5 for more than three months, going triple platinum for sales of more than 210,000 copies. Born To Try then went on to enter the UK charts at number three, spending 11 weeks, in the Top 40, and it went to number one in New Zealand.
Then
came the single, Lost Without You. A number one debut in Australia and
three months in Australian Top 10. Innocent Eyes, Delta’s stunning debut album,
also entered the Australian charts at number one, knocking off Norah Jones. Not
even a new Madonna album could displace Delta. " I wanted to make an album that
reflected me at this time in my life," Delta explains. "Every song takes me to a
place where I can remember what happened." Since delivering Innocent Eyes, Delta's career has soared both locally and internationally. From the time of its release more than ten months ago, the album has spent 29 weeks in the top spot on the National ARIA charts, making it the second longest running album ever at #1 in Australian chart history, and is officially 14x Platinum with sales in excess of one million copies in Australia alone - incredible for a country where gold status is 35,000. Five number one singles including "Born To Try", "Lost Without You", "Innocent Eyes" , "Not Me Not I" and "Predictable" have ensured Delta's local record sales have topped the 1.7 million mark and given her the Australian record for becoming the first ever artist to have five Number One singles from a debut album. Each of the tracks have also topped the national airplay charts with her fourth and fifth singles, "Not Me Not I" and "Predictable" reaching the top after a record two weeks at radio. No Australian woman – not even Kylie – has made such an impact with her debut release.
And it hasn't stopped there for Delta. Her extraordinary talents were recognised by the Australian Recording Industry at the 2003 ARIA Chart #1's Ceremony with the young performer taking home four gongs for her phenomenal chart success this year.
Shortly after her record ten nominations were announced for the 17th Annual ARIA Awards where she ultimately won seven of the eight categories she was nominated in along with the public voted Video Hits Award for Best Video and Channel V Oz Music Artist Of The Year, taking home nine honours in total. Despite her continuing battle with Hodgkin's disease, Delta attended the ceremony, fulfilling a life long dream of going to the ARIAs.
The talented performer also picked up MTV's International Viewers Choice Award for her single "Born To Try" at the Annual Video Music Awards Ceremony held in New York, and earlier in the year won a Logie Award (the Australian equivalent of the Emmys) for Most Popular Female New Talent.
Delta Goodrem is no newcomer. She started in the entertainment business at the age of seven, acting in TV commercials and Australian television shows such as Hey Dad, A Country Practice and Police Rescue. Delta loved sports, particularly basketball and skiing, but music is her passion so Delta saved her acting money to make a demo CD.
At the age of 12, Delta recorded her demo CD, with five songs she'd written. She included her version of the Australian national anthem because she dreamed of one day singing at a game for her football team - the Sydney Swans. "Anyone's allowed to dream, I say," Delta says.
Delta sent the CD to the Swans and they sent it on to one of the club's biggest supporters, Australian manager Glenn Wheatley, the man who guided the Little River Band and John Farnham to mega success. Seeing a red and white envelope in his letterbox, Glenn ripped open the package to find Delta's songs.
Over the next two years, Glenn helped Delta develop her career, before Sony signed her at the age of 15. In 2002, Delta landed a role on the Australian television institution Neighbours, a show that started on air just a few months after Delta was born. Playing the shy singing schoolgirl Nina Tucker, Delta got to debut Born To Try on the show. Though she's always getting into trouble for singing on the set, Delta says, "Neighbours has been fantastic."
Now, the girl who plays piano barefoot is taking her music to the world, and the
world is listening.
Source:
Official Delta Goodrem Biography