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Delta Leah Goodrem (born November 9, 1984 in Sydney) is an Australian musician, singer and actress, who started her career as Nina Tucker on the television soap opera Neighbours.
Delta Goodrem has had an interest in music, acting and sports from a young age, and has appeared in numerous television commercials and television shows in Australia. At the age of seven, Delta appeared in an American commercial for Galoob Toys. Besides Neighbours, Goodrem has also made cameos in Australian television episodes of Hey Dad!, A Country Practice and Police Rescue.
Goodrem is a classically-trained pianist and also plays guitar and drums. She recorded a five-track demo EP of self-penned songs before releasing a moderately successful single in November 2001, called "I Don't Care", which reached #64 on the ARIA Music Charts [1] (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1206855/bio).
Her debut album Innocent Eyes was released March 3, 2003, and was a massive success, producing a record five #1 singles in Australia. She has writing credits on every song on the album, thus becoming the only Australian female performer in history to be credited as performer and writer on five #1 hits.
However, in the midst of promoting her album, she announced that she had Hodgkin's lymphoma, a form of cancer, and ceased work to begin treatment for the disease. This greatly affected the marketing push for Innocent Eyes, with Goodrem unable to perform any promotional tours or appear on any TV shows. However, the album was successful in spite of this, with the media coverage given to her health perhaps acting as promotion on its own.
On October 4 of that year, while Goodrem was still undergoing treatment, it was announced that she would not renew her contract with manager Glenn Wheatley. Goodrem's mother, Lea Goodrem, subsequently replaced Wheatley.
Goodrem capped off a professionally successful, though personally traumatic, year by winning a record seven ARIA Music Awards on October 21, 2003, which broke the previous record of six, held by Natalie Imbruglia. The ARIAs were seen as something of a 'come-back' for Goodrem, and although she didn't perform personally, Darren Hayes of Savage Garden performed her song "Lost Without You" as a tribute to her.
In the first week of December 2003 Innocent Eyes broke John Farnham's Australian record of 25 consecutive weeks at No. 1 (Whispering Jack (1986)). In total, Innocent Eyes spent 29 weeks at #1, tied with Neil Diamond's Hot August Night (1972), as the second longest charting number-one album in Australian history. Innocent Eyes has gone over 14x platinum in Australia alone, with sales in the United Kingdom reaching a high level as well.
Her DVD entitled Delta has been a success in both Australia and the United Kingdom and features many videos depicting her life up until now.
In January 2004, Goodrem was well enough to attend the 2004 Australian Open at length, where she prominently supported Australian player Mark Philippoussis. She continued her support during the Wimbledon tournament. As of October 2004, however, Goodrem's relationship with Philippoussis was over after Paris Hilton announced to the media that she was Philippoussis' new love interest, much to the surprise of Goodrem and her fans. This was later confirmed by Philippoussis, though he stated that Hilton was not the cause of the break-up. This was suspected, as he didn't attend the 2004 ARIA Awards, at which Goodrem was performing for the first time. Delta has been dating married (but now separated from his wife) ex-Westlife star Brian McFadden since September 2004.
In February 2004 it was announced Goodrem had won the lead role in the Australian comedy film Hating Alison Ashley, the movie based on the novel by Robin Klein, a prominent Australian author.
Goodrem's second album Mistaken Identity was released on November 7, 2004 and debuted at #1. The first single from it, "Out of the Blue", debuted at #1 on its first week of release in October 2004. However, her next single in Australia, "Mistaken Identity" the album track, debuted and peaked at #7. The album also didn't last very long in the top 10, compared with her debut. In the UK, a different second single was released from the album. "Almost Here", a duet with Brian McFadden, who had already been successful being part of Westlife, pushed the single up to debut at #3, her chart best equal with "Born to Try".
In December 2004, Goodrem announced she was planning to relocate to the United States in an attempt to break into the US market. Goodrem has already appeared on the North American soap opera North Shore.
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