Yep, and we’ve got the video to prove it…
America has only just discovered the genius that is Sia , but in Summer Bay, they knew about her aaages ago.
Before she was the face-hiding chanteuse we know and love today, Sia Furler, 39, had a cameo on Home and Away in 1997 – belting out a heartfelt ballad she wrote just for the show.
She is without her trademark peroxide bob, and she is wearing an ill-advised dress-and-pants combo, but it’s definitely her. You can’t mistake that voice.
She made the cameo appearance as herself, surprising Travis (Nic Testoni) during his wedding to Rebecca (the sadly departed Belinda Emmett). She sang a song called How To Breathe that she wrote especially for the show and was, apparently, Travis’s favourite singer.
Marilyn, Irene and a guy who I recognise as Sam from Neighbours are very impressed. Alf refrained from calling her a flaming galah. It was by all accounts a big success.
It was not to be her big break, though. She didn’t release her first major label, Healing is Difficult, until 2001. It had the massively successful single Breathe Me (breathing is a theme here) which is now basically the go-to song for emotional scenes in movies and TV shows.
That album received favourable reviews and modest sales and she released a bunch more great albums until she decided to start writing pop songs for big superstars like Christina Aguilera and Beyonce and basically everyone else you can think of who has been in the pop charts in the last five years.
Sia then began singing said pop songs, wearing gigantic face-obscuring wigs and performing with her back to audiences. She is now a massive huge superstar herself, and still a total legend.
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