Natalie Imbruglia
Natalie Jane Imbruglia (pronounced /ɪmˈbruːliə/) (born February 4, 1975) is an Australian singer-songwriter, model and actress. First of the four daughters to a Sicilian (Lipari), father and an Anglo-Celtic Australian mother, Imbruglia grew up on the Central Coast, north of Sydney, south of Newcastle. Imbruglia is the elder sister of singer-songwriter Laura Imbruglia. Imbruglia is an ambassador for Virgin Unite and supports campaigns to end poverty and to bring attention to the disease known as obstetric fistula.
In the early 1990s, Imbruglia was known to audiences as Beth Brennan in the popular Australian soap Neighbours. Three years after leaving the programme, Imbruglia launched a singing career with the international hit, “Torn”. The subsequent debut album Left of the Middle (1997) sold over 6 million copies worldwide. While following releases, White Lilies Island (2001) and Counting Down the Days (2005), have been unable to match the commercial success of her debut, the latter became her first UK #1.
She co-starred in the 2003 film Johnny English and made her leading actress debut in the 2009 film Closed for Winter. In May 2010, after Dannii Minogue, who is a judge on the British version of The X Factor, declined to judge the Australian show, Imbruglia became one of the new judges instead.
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She has received an MTV Award for Best New Artist in 1998, and 3 constitutive Grammy Award nominations in 1999. She has sold over 9 million albums worldwide. She was ranked #11 on Rock on the Net’s list of single artists of the year in 1998, and #76 in 2001. Imbruglia has tied up her 4-album record deal with BMG after the delivery of her compilation album, Glorious: The Singles 1997–2007. Imbruglia’s first internationally released single, “Torn” (1997), was a cover of an Ednaswap song. Instantly the single became one of the biggest hits of the 90s, reaching number two in the UK Singles Chart in November 1997 and number one on airplay around the world and was number one on the Billboard Airplay chart for 14 weeks. The single went on to sell over a million copies in the United Kingdom alone. In October 1997, it broke the all-time airplay record in the U.K. for being the most played (more than 2000 plays) for six consecutive weeks. It was finally No. 1 for 14 weeks in the U.K. radio chart, a record that is being tied by only Simply Red’s Fairground. It was the No. 1 radio single in the U.S. from March to July 1998. It was knocked down to No. 2 by The Goo Goo Dolls’ Iris. Rick Dees, in his Top 40 Chart show also declared “Torn” as the ‘number one radio single of 1990s’ in their 2000 Millennium Countdown show, broadcast from KIIS-FM on New Year’s Eve.
Imbruglia’s debut album Left of the Middle was released on 8 December 1997. It sold 350,000 copies in the UK 3 weeks after its initial release and was certified platinum. It has sold over 6 million copies to date. It broke the record of the highest selling debut album by a pop/rock/alternative female artist, more than Alanis Morissette, Fiona Apple, and Meredith Brooks combined in its first week according to Billboard.
Imbruglia was named 6th most naturally beautiful woman of all time in 2004. Audrey Hepburn topped the poll in which only experts like fashion editors, model agents and make-up artists could vote. The voting was decided on the “most naturally beautiful woman, inside and out”. She was ranked 90th on the VH1 100 Sexiest Artists. -Wikipedia
