Helen Reddy
Helen Reddy
Helen Maxine Lamond Reddyis an Australian singer, actress, and activist. In the 1970s, she enjoyed international success, especially in the United States, where she placed 15 singles in the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100. Six made the Top 10 and three reached No. 1, including her signature hit "I Am Woman". She is often referred to as the "Queen of '70s Pop"...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth25 October 1941
CityMelbourne, Australia
CountryAustralia
My audience are the same people who bought my albums years ago. These people are now married, with their own homes, their own families. If I'm in concert, I get people now who bring their kids.
It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don't speak English at all. It must be hell.
Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago.
I had a career for 25 years in Australia before I ever came to the United States.
It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it.
I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here.
I was looking for a husband, but meanwhile to survive, I had to work.
If I have to, I can do anything. I am strong, I am invincible, I am Woman.
I think back and marvel that my ambitions were so small.
I thought Erica Jong's Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that I've ever read in my life.
You're not going to find a man whose socks don't get dirty or who doesn't snore.
I wanted control over the merchandising, the actual packaging of the product. That was a big factor. The only way for me to exercise control on all those levels was to start my own label.
If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am!
Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.