Singer Delta Goodrem Bio

DELTA GOODREM

Her story is fascinating. Her chart statistics are impressive. Her music's even better.

At just 26 Delta Goodrem is the Artist of the Decade in Australia having sold more albumsin the last ten years than any other artist in Australia both local and international artists included.

First - a history lesson. Delta's 2003 debut Innocent Eyes is one of only a handful ofalbums to sell over a million copies in Australia - one in every 20 Australians own a copy. The album spent a record-breaking 29 weeks at No.1 in Australia, won the Highest Selling Album award at theAustralian equivalent of the Grammys two years running and has now clocked up 4 million sales worldwide - including reaching No.2 in the UK.

Each of the album's five singles made No.1 in Australia -breaking a record held by Kylie Minogue and the Beatles - and Innocent Eyes spawned three Top 10 singles in the UK. She's also had hit albums in Japan and New Zealand, charming the globe territory byterritory. It's not hard to see why: in an era of pre-fabricated as-seen-on-TV popstars, Delta Goodrem is the real thing.

A pianist since the age of seven, Goodrem harks back to a bygone era wherepop stars wrote their own songs and sang them live - as simple as that.

Delta became the girl who was always on stage from as long as anyone in her family can remember. "It always just feltnatural," she says. "I remember when I went to concerts of artists I loved and I thought, ‘I can't wait to do that'. It was never ‘I hope I get to do it,' I always knew I'd do it. I just believed in myself.There wasn't a plan B."

Innocent Eyes established Goodrem as not just a musician but a songwriter. In 2006, Goodrem performed a self-penned song, "Together We Are One," at the opening ceremony ofthe Commonwealth Games in front of a worldwide audience of 1.5 billion. The inspirational song surfaced on last year's American Idol. Another song penned by Goodrem, "Days Go By," was a No.1 hit...