Sia Furler

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Sia Furler
Sia Furler in concert with Zero 7
Sia Furler in concert with Zero 7
Background information
Birth name Sia Kate Isobelle Furler
Also known as Sia
Born December 18, 1975 (age 31)
Origin Country flag Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Genre(s) Pop
Instrument(s) Singing
Years active 2000 - Present
Label(s) DancePool (Sony Music), Go! Beat
Associated
acts		 Zero 7, Katie Noonan
Website http://www.siamusic.net/

Sia Kate Isobelle Furler (pronounced ['siə] (or "See-ah")) (born December 18, 1975 in Adelaide, South Australia) is an Australian contemporary female pop singer, noted for her work with Zero 7 and her two major-label solo albums.

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[edit] Career

Sia Furler was part of the Australian acid jazz formation Crisp, which released an album entitled OnlySee on a now-defunct independent record label.

Furler did not achieve commercial success until her move to the United Kingdom and embarkation on a solo career. In 2000, Sia signed to the Sony Music sub-label DancePool, whereupon she released her major-label debut, Healing Is Difficult, an eclectic mix of R&B and jazz. The album included the underground club hits "Drink To Get Drunk" (remixed by Different Gear) and "Little Man". It also featured the single "Taken For Granted", a song containing a Prokofiev sample. The single reached the Top 10 in the UK charts.[citation needed] Part of Sia's success can be attributed to the UK garage remix of "Little Man" by Wookie. This remix was a huge club hit which led many people to discover her who otherwise would not have.[citation needed] It still remains a popular song in nightclubs throughout the UK.

Healing Is Difficult received wide critical acclaim and led to Furler being hailed as the next Lauryn Hill or Nelly Furtado by certain sections of the music press[citation needed]. However, following record label conflicts, Sia left Sony Music and signed with Go! Beat Records, a subsidiary of UMG.

2003 saw Sia release an EP entitled Don't Bring Me Down. Her second album, entitled Colour The Small One, was released in Australia and Europe the following year. This downtempo album saw Sia employ a mixture of acoustic instruments and electronic backing in her material, which led to comparisons to artists such as Dido and Sarah McLachlan.[citation needed] It featured "The Bully", which was a collaboration with American musician Beck Hansen. Two further songs were co-written and produced, but have yet to be released. Colour The Small One, though, spawned the singles "Breathe Me" and "Where I Belong" — the latter track was earmarked to appear on the soundtrack of the film Spiderman 2, but owing to a record label conflict, its inclusion was withdrawn. In anticipation of this notable inclusion, the single of "Where I Belong" was packaged with a cover featuring Sia dressed in a Spiderman costume [1].

In early 2005, Sia parted company with Go! Beat Records, disappointed at the company's poor promotion of the album, and the failure of the label's U.S. counterpart to pick up the record. Meanwhile, "Breathe Me" was beginning to receive international notice with appearances in the U.S. HBO television series Six Feet Under and the broadcast of the 2006 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. The track had been licensed to Astralwerks (which also produces the Six Feet Under soundtracks), and based on positive feedback, the full license of Colour The Small One was picked up by Astralwerks and given an American release in early 2006.

Sia toured the U.S. throughout 2006, promoting the album and cross-promoting the Six Feet Under season five DVD release. The re-released 2006 U.S. album features four bonus tracks — "Broken Biscuit" (from the Don't Bring Me Down EP), "Sea Shells" (the B-side to "Breathe Me" in the UK) and two remixes of "Breathe Me" by Four Tet and Ulrich Schnauss.

In addition to her solo career, Furler provided vocals for Zero 7 on their hit singles "Destiny" and "Distractions" from their debut album Simple Things. Zero 7's second album, When It Falls, featured Sia voicing "Somersault" and "Speed Dial No. 2". A third album, The Garden (released May 2006), found six contributions from Furler, with one ("You're My Flame") released as a single in the UK and North America.

Sia recorded a cover version of Radiohead's "Paranoid Android", which appeared on the tribute album Exit Music: Songs with Radio Heads in 2006. The album also included covers by artists such as Mark Ronson, Matthew Herbert and Cinematic Orchestra.

As a recording project, a duet was formed with singer Katie Noonan, a member of Brisbane-based band George. Industry gossip points to any produced songs from this duet appearing on Noonan's forthcoming solo album, due for release in 2007.

[edit] Trivia

  • The music video for "Breathe Me" makes use of 2,500 Polaroids in flip-animation to reflect a desolate passage of solitude indoors in West London.
  • Sia provided vocals for Australian dance outfit Friendly's debut single "Some Kind Of Love Song", released in 1999. It reached No. 45 on the ARIA chart.
  • Her song "Don't Bring Me Down" was featured in the French film 36 Quai des Orfèvres starring Gerard Depardieu.

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