Delta Goodrem

Biography

Delta Lea Goodrem AM (born 9 November 1984) is an Australian singer, songwriter and actress. She has a total of nine number-one singles and 17 top-ten hits on the ARIA Singles Chart. She has sold over eight million albums globally and overall has won three World Music Awards, 12 ARIA Music Awards, an MTV Video Music Award and several other awards.

Born and raised in Sydney, Goodrem signed a recording contract with Sony Music at the age of 15, in 1999. Her debut studio album, Innocent Eyes (2003), topped the ARIA Albums Chart for 29 non-consecutive weeks. It is one of the best-selling albums in Australia and is the second-best-selling Australian album of all time with over four million copies sold. Goodrem's second studio album, Mistaken Identity (2004), was recorded while she was undergoing treatment for cancer. It became her second number-one album. In 2007, Goodrem released Delta, her third number-one album, which included another number-one single, "In This Life". Her fourth studio album, Child of the Universe (2012), produced the single "Sitting on Top of the World". In 2016, her fifth studio album, Wings of the Wild, became her fourth number-one album on the ARIA Albums Chart, while giving her another number-one single, "Wings". Goodrem's most recent and fifth number-one studio album, Bridge over Troubled Dreams was released in May 2021.

From 2012 to 2020, Goodrem was a coach for eight seasons on The Voice Australia and during her one-season hiatus in 2014, served as a coach on The Voice Kids. Since 2020, she has hosted the annual Christmas special Christmas with Delta on the Nine Network. Goodrem represented Australia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 with the song "Eclipse", finishing in fourth place. Later in the year, Goodrem is set to compete on the twenty-fourth series of Strictly Come Dancing in the United Kingdom, as well as releasing her eighth studio album Pure.

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