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| Birth Name(s) : Filippina Lydia Arena |
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Full Tina Arena Biography
Filippina Lydia Arena (born 1 November 1967) is an Australian singer, songwriter and musical theatre actress. Over her long career in the entertainment industry she has won numerous awards, most notably 5 ARIA Awards and in both 1996 and 2000 she received the World Music Award for the world's best selling Australian artist.
Arena was born to Sicilian immigrants, Franca and Giuseppe Arena, living in the Melbourne suburb of Moonee Ponds. She has two sisters, Nancy and Silvana.
A child star of the pre-reality-TV generation, Arena began her career as a 7 year old, singing live on Australia’s longest running variety television show, Young Talent Time (1974-1983). Even as a tiny girl she was known for her big voice and stage presence, but she dropped from sight for several years following her Young Talent Time tenure, years she spent trying to get up a recording career, working the club circuit alone and in bands, and appearing in musicals. In 1990, at the age of 21, she was reinvented as a raunchy disco diva with the national #3 Platinum selling single "I Need Your Body". It gave her a successful album, Strong as Steel, and more hits, but for Tina this was a momentary digression, as this was never a music style or an image she was comfortable with.
After a couple years, Tina broke the stigma of a TV childhood and carved out a successful solo career with Columbia Records. The David Tyler-produced Don't Ask was Australia's biggest selling album of 1995, and the biggest selling album by any Australian female. Don't Ask sold over 1.3 million copies worldwide and sold 10x Platinum in Australia. "Chains" scaled the charts in the UK to #4, and charted well throughout Europe, earning her numerous awards in the process.
Tina’s collaboration with Marc Anthony, on "I Want To Spend My Lifetime Loving You" (from the Mask of Zorro soundtrack), gave her a new kind of European success, tipping the scales of her success in France where both the song and the movie became Top 10 hits. She began to record in French, and Tina’s most recent French language album “Un Autre Univers” was yet another Platinum milestone for her there, riding high in the French Charts for well over a year and featuring the award winning single Aimer jusqu'à l'impossible.
Regardless of her recording achievements, musical theatre has always remained more than just a sideline for Tina Arena. Her performance in the Australian production of Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat, while still in her teens, was hailed by the show's producer, Andrew Lloyd Webber. Tina has since made acclaimed appearances in the UK production of Notre Dame de Paris, as Esmeralda, and as Sally Bowles in the Sam Mendes-directed Cabaret (2002).
It’s no surprise then that the recent announcement that Tina's playing Roxie Hart in the hit West End production of Chicago: The Musical has been greeted with excitement around the world. Having previously boasted an international cast including Brooke Shields, Alison Moyet and David Hasselhoff, the production is heading toward it’s 10th anniversary in the UK, with little sign of slowing down.
“Musicals are a different world compared to that of the recording artist, basically because, it’s really hard work”, Tina laughs, “but I’m so excited to be back in the West End. I love Chicago - it’s such a fabulous show and for me, the opportunity to play Roxie and to be a part of such a great production is just awesome”.
Arena's sixth studio album is to be released on 1 December 2007 titled Songs of Love & Loss. It is confirmed to be a cover album and will feature a full string orchestra conducted by Simon Hale. A promotional tour of Australia is scheduled for late December 2007 to early January 2008 which will include three concerts backed by a 35 piece orchestra, two at the Sydney Opera House and one at Melbourne's Hamer Hall. Appearances on Australia's Dancing with the Stars and at the ARIA Awards are also scheduled for this time.
1995
- ARIA: Highest Selling Australian Album
- ARIA: Best Pop Release
- ARIA: Song of The Year
- ARIA: Album of the Year
- Radio Awards: Most Played Artist
- Variety Club: Entertainer of the Year
- BRIT Awards: Best International Newcomer
- Young Australian of the Year: Outstanding Achievement
1996
- APRA Awards: Song Of The Year
- World Music Awards: World's Best Selling Australian Artist
- Advance Australia Foundation: Outstanding Contribution
- Radio Awards: Best Australian Performer on Radio
2000
- ARIA: Outstanding Achievement
- BMI Awards: For co-writing Burn
- World Music Awards: World's Best Selling Australian Artist
- NRJ: Best New International Revelation |
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