2015-01-27
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The amazing and super successful Sia writes songs for the world's brightest stars, starting with BritneySpears, Rihanna and Beyonce. Almost every one inevitably becomes a hit.

In addition, Sia sings herself. The past 2014 was especially successful for Sia - two tracks performed by her reached the top of the charts in many countries, becoming a sensation: the video “Chandelier” (“Chandelier”) received 485 million views on YouTube by January 2015, and the composition “ Elastic Heart" was included in the soundtrack of the super popular film "The Hunger Games. Catching Fire” (80 million views on YouTube in the first 2 weeks). Journalists line up for interviews. Sia, in general, does not refuse - but with one condition: no one should see her face.

Sia performs in TV studios with her face turned to the wall, sings on stage with her head buried in a pillow, and studiously avoids the camera. The singer gives all the attention of the public to the heroines of her performances, which are inexhaustible: she invites actresses or dancers who act as Sia herself, wearing a characteristic white wig and pretending to sing a song that is actually performed by Sia in the background.

For example, during an appearance on the Ellen DeGeneres program - one of the most popular talk shows in the United States - Sia stood for her allotted airtime facing the wall, and the main role was assigned to 11-year-old dancer Maddie Ziegler, who danced in the “Chandelier” video " On another TV show, Sia performed with her face buried in a pillow, while popular actress Lena Dunham “sang” and danced in the foreground.

This strange behavior attracted even more attention to the artist and, of course, gave rise to a lot of rumors. Assumptions vary: from complexes about appearance to split personality. And this is not surprising, given that over the course of her 38 years of life, Sia managed to endure a lot: alcoholism, drugs, Graves' disease, manic-depressive psychosis, the death of her boyfriend - and fame, in the end. At the same time, during her rather difficult and long creative biography, such behavior was not always typical for Sia. Those interested can easily find old photos of the artist on the Internet and make sure that she is a fairly attractive blonde without any terrible deformities.

Finally, Sia herself explained her behavior to curious journalists: “If you only knew what it was to be a celebrity, you would never wish for it in your life. Just imagine the stereotypical know-it-all mother-in-law and apply that image to any teenager with a computer, add in all the bored and fun-seeking people, and all those whose job it is to write news about show business stars. These people criticize you and assert themselves at your expense - every day, day after day, constantly!

Some time ago, in 2012, Sia already announced her departure, saying that she was tired of being the center of attention and she wanted to live the life that she lived before. However, she returned to creativity and released the soundtrack "Kill and Run" for Baz Luhrmann's film The Great Gatsby, which became a hit. Her composition "Perfume" was also included on Britney Spears' eighth studio album, Britney Jean.

Ultimately, Sia found an original and very creative way out of the conflict with popularity: she decided to focus her performances on the performance of other artists. Turning away from the public, Sia tries to emphasize that she is first and foremost a musician and singer and is trying to get out of the spotlight.

True, in this way, Sia rather achieves the opposite effect - interest in her only increases. Some journalists are already writing that this is such a well-thought-out move to gain even greater fame.

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Biography

Sia Kate Isobel Furler was born in 1975 in the capital of South Australia, Adelaide. From early childhood she was surrounded by music. Sia's parents: Phil Colson and Loan Furler were in the fairly successful rock band The Soda Jerks. As Ferler herself would later tell, she never had any doubts about her life’s purpose. Siya always wanted to sing. At the age of 17, Sia becomes a soloist...

Biography

Sia Kate Isobel Furler born in 1975 in the capital of South Australia, Adelaide. From early childhood she was surrounded by music. Sia's parents: Phil Colson and Loan Furler were in the fairly successful rock band The Soda Jerks. As Ferler herself would later tell, she never had any doubts about her life’s purpose. Siya always wanted to sing.

At the age of 17, Sia became the lead singer of the jazz-funk band The Crisp. The group released two failed albums, after which in 1997 the performer decided to leave the group to pursue a solo career. In the same year, the debut album of the Australian entitled “Only See” was released. Unfortunately, it was also a commercial failure (the album sold 1,200 copies in total).

In 2000, luck finally smiled on the vocalist. Sia moves to London, where she manages to get a job as a backing vocalist for Jamiroquai. At the same time, she signed her first major contact with one of the subsidiary labels of Sony Music. On July 9, 2001, Sia’s second long-play “Healing Is Difficult” was released. The album received positive reviews from harsh London critics, and most importantly, it was liked by English clubbers. The single “Taken for Granted” achieved unexpected success (10th place in the UK Single Chart). This became popular in Foggy Albion, however, in Europe and America it remained completely unknown. That all changed in 2003 with the release of her third studio album, Color the Small One. The single “Breathe Me” achieved some success in the charts, and on alternative radio stations in America it even became a hit No. 1. Filmmakers first drew attention to Sia when they made “Breathe Me” the soundtrack of the final episode of the series “Six Feet Under.”

The next stage in the singer’s life was the already legendary album “Some People Have Real Problems”. Siya spent 4 whole years recording it. As it turned out, it was not in vain. The longplay was favorably received by critics, and fans even called it Sia’s best work. By tradition, Furler herself became the author of all the songs. Samuel Dixon, who helped the singer work on the tracks of her previous album, acted as a sound producer. The album showed good commercial results all over the world (including in impregnable America). The album has 4 singles and the same number of music videos.

The album “We Are Born” (2010) turned out to be diverse. It peacefully coexisted with high-speed tracks and ballads. There are unusually few of the latter on the album, but what is there can be considered a living classic. For example, “I’m In Here” is rightfully considered one of the most successful tracks.

The album “This Is Acting” (premiere January 29, 2016) was composed of songs written for other artists, but for various reasons not accepted by customers. Initially, the main composition of the disc, “Alive,” was intended for singer Adele. The British singer even recorded a demo version of the track, but then for some reason changed her mind. Rihanna also considered performing the song, but also ultimately abandoned the song.

Sia is a multiple Grammy Award winner, author of soundtracks for the films Twilight, The Vampire Diaries, and The Great Gatsby. She wrote songs for Christina Aguilera, Beyonce, Rihanna, Katy Perry.

Discography:
"OnlySee" (1997)
"Healing Is Difficult" (2001)
"Color the Small" One (2004),
"Some People Have Real Problems" (2008),
"We Are Born" (2010)
"1000 Forms of Fear" (2014),
"This Is Acting" (2016),
"Everyday Is Christmas" (2017).

Singer Sia at a concert

What can spoil a well-thought-out stage image, when not a single living soul interferes with the artist on stage? Australian singer Sia now knows the answer to this question. Her recent outdoor performance at the Series Fest in Colorado (USA) turned into an embarrassment. The two-toned wig that always covers her eyes was almost blown away by the wind. The entire song, the singer stood in front of the microphone, performing the number, and the wind blew with terrible force, showing the crowd the real face of the mysterious artist. The trademark huge bow slid to one side, and her hair fluttered in all directions.

Interestingly, the wig held up surprisingly well and did not fly off. This fact suggests an idea: maybe Sia wasn’t wearing a wig that evening, but her own hair? Be that as it may, the performance did not go according to the singer’s plan, but according to the dictates of the elements.

Let us remind you that black and white bangs covering the entire face have become an integral part of the singer’s image. The performer doesn't even remove it from her face. However, the desert wind in Colorado forced “Gyulchatai” to open its face.

Sia at a concert

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Sia performing in Colorado

She has earned a reputation as one of the most mysterious figures among pop musicians, thanks to the ever-present black and white wig that hides the singer's face. However, Sia periodically (though not often) appears without a wig and shows her face to fans. Here are 15 such cases.

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Sia poses at the All Points West Music and Arts Festival. August 9, 2008, Jersey City, New Jersey.

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Siya at the Vodafone MTV Australia Awards. March 27, 2009, Sydney, Australia.

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Sia on the red carpet at the Sydney Opera House Awards. November 7, 2010, Sydney, Australia.

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Siya in the vicinity of Lincoln Center, at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week during the presentation of the collection - Spring 2013. September 10, 2012, New York.

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Sia at a preview screening of Django Unchained at the Ziegfeld Theater. December 11, 2012, in New York.

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Siya at the 15th Annual Trevor Project Benefit held at the Hollywood Palladium. December 8, 2013, in Hollywood, California.

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Sia performs on stage at the Humane Society of The United States at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. March 29, 2014 in Beverly Hills, California.

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Sia performs at a benefit concert during President Barack Obama's visit to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Democratic National Committee at Gotham Hall. June 17, 2014 in Washington.

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Siya at ELLE magazine's annual Women in Television Celebration at Sunset Tower. January 15, 2015, West Hollywood, California.

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Sia attends the 23rd Annual Academy of AIDS Research Awards founded by Elton John at Chopard. February 22, 2015 in Los Angeles

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Sia and Beck attended the Creators Party, organized by Spotify. February 13, 2016 in Los Angeles.

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Sia performing as part of the concert series at Red Rocks Amphitheater. June 22, 2016 in Morrison, Colorado.

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By the way, this is a video taken by the paparazzi. In it you can see that Siya, as always, looks incomparable and smiles charmingly, despite the fact that this is not a planned photo shoot, but a meeting with an annoying journalist chasing a sensation. In my opinion, the positivity emanating from the singer is admirable!

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Why doesn't Sia show her face? The main music discussion of the year

February 6, 2015

The name of Australian Sia has long been known to the world music community. The singer and author began conquering Olympus in 1997, when her first album “Only see” was released. During her career, she released six records and received numerous nominations, including a Grammy. Recent performances have raised a lot of questions: why is Sia deliberately hiding her face?

The thorny path to success

Despite the fact that the debut album was accepted by listeners, there was a long road to world recognition. The most successful album, “Some People Have Real Problems,” made a splash in 2008, and from this period a new stage in the singer’s career began. She knew how to arouse public interest, which has recently become even more intense. Not understanding what's going on with her, fans ask why Sia doesn't show her face?

Perhaps facts from the star’s biography will help give the answer. At the beginning of 2012, she already talked about leaving. Living with a constant feeling of fame became more difficult, primarily on an emotional level. The singer wanted to return to those years when resounding success had not yet fallen on her strong shoulders, however, she did not give up creativity, returning with the soundtrack to the film “The Great Gatsby”.

Possible reasons

It was impossible not to notice the change in the singer’s behavior. The question of why Sia does not show her face remained open. She combined her wild popularity with her inability to cope with star status. And it seems she has found a way out: to give space to others to perform while she fades into the background on stage. Loyal fans revisited their idol's life and found several events that could have had an impact. These include personal complexes and worries about one’s appearance, and some even called it a split personality. In life, the singer had problems with alcohol and drugs, manic-depressive psychosis and Graves' disease.

Vivid examples

The reason for discussing the singer’s strange behavior was her recent performances. Fans associated them with the release of the album “1000 Forms of Fear,” which can literally be translated as “1000 forms of fear.”

Diligently avoiding television cameras, during her performance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, the singer stood on stage with her face turned to the wall. The 11-year-old dancer captured the audience's attention as she danced in the foreground. The video has received over 25 million views on YouTube, with everyone wondering why Sia doesn't show her face.

On the air of another program “Late Night with Seth Meyers” the stage place was given to the actress of the TV series “Girls” Lena Dunham. The singer herself sat on a bunk bed and buried her face in the pillow, never meeting the gaze of the audience. Thus, the dancers perform in the image of the singer or pretend to perform her compositions, although it is obvious and clear who is actually singing.

Why doesn't singer Sia show her face? Theories and versions

First of all, they are associated with secrecy and hostility towards the press. The desire to turn away from the audience may be an emphatic intention to show who she is first of all - a musician and singer, and therefore should take a secondary position, giving way to the action that takes place on stage.

Fans of the singer discuss this fact and give reasons. They remember saying that she was tired of the cameras constantly pointed directly at her face. Sia probably doesn’t want to be seen on screens, so her temporary “disappearance” from the stage is quite understandable.

A parallel is drawn with the title of the album. Why doesn't Sia show her face? This is a form of fear that involves the need for direct contact with the viewer, as her latest record talks about. The main thing remains that the singer’s performance in a unique manner of behavior is always at the highest level. And she can only wish to cope with all her complexes. If there are any, of course.

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Sia is an Australian singer whose popularity came after the release of the song “Brea the Me,” which later became the soundtrack to the TV series Six Feet Under, but fame played a cruel joke on the artist. A busy work schedule and a tragedy in her personal life led her to drug addiction.

Having survived dark times and gotten rid of thoughts of suicide, the performer started all over again and began writing music for already promoted stars. Having created hits for, and, she decided to return to her solo career and continue conquering the musical Olympus.

Childhood and youth

Sia Kate Isobel Furler (full name of the singer) was born on December 18, 1975 in Adelaide (South Australia). It is worth noting that an atmosphere of all-consuming creative anarchy surrounded the performer from the first years of her life. The artist’s father, Phil Colson, lectured on art at a local college, and Loan Furler’s mother ran the household and raised her daughter. In their free time, the couple performed in cafes and bars as part of the rockabilly band “The Soda Jerx” they organized.

In her teenage years, Kate was a fan of the works of the singer, performer of classic rhythm and blues and. Sia later admitted that their voices were still mixed in her head and still sound in her thoughts to this day.

In conversations with media representatives, the artist repeatedly said that when her parents went on tour, leaving their beloved child at home alone, she often danced in front of the mirror, imitating her favorite performers, to have fun. Many years later, these childhood memories formed the basis for the video clip for the song “Chandler.”

Sia hated school, learning was not easy for her, and she was not particularly popular with her classmates, causing them only ridicule and insults. At the age of 17, Furler first appeared on stage as part of the local jazz-funk group “The Crisp”, but did not stay in it for long. As part of this project, the girl recorded two albums – “Wordand the Deal” and “Delirium”. Both records failed commercially, but made it clear to the young singer that it was time for her to pursue a solo career.

Music

In 1997, Sia moved to London, where luck smiled at her. First, the aspiring singer was hired as a backing vocalist in the well-known group “Jamiroquai”, then she released the album “Onlysee”, and in 2000 the ambitious person signed a contract with the recording company “Sony Music”.

A year later, the singer’s debut solo album “Healing Is Difficult” hit the shelves, which listeners liked and was favorably received by music critics. Then they learned about Sia in Britain, but the rest of Europe, like the States, had not yet heard of the talented Australian.

The situation changed with the release of her third album, Colou rthe Small One. The song from the album “Brea the Me” not only took first place in the charts of a couple of American radio stations, but also became the soundtrack to the TV series “Six Feet Under.”

Sia - Breathe Me

Later, the same composition was played at the Victoria's Secret show, in advertising for Australian supermarkets, during the Olympic Games in Beijing and in the trailer for the popular game Prince of Persia. Four years later, another album, “Some People Have Real Problems,” was released, which reached number 26 on the Billboard 200 chart.

In 2010, the singer released a new album, “We Are Born.” The single “You’ve Changed” became the soundtrack to the film “The Vampire Diaries.” By that time, the singer began writing songs both for herself and for other stars. So, in 2010, Kate recorded four tracks for the album “Bionic”, which, according to the performer herself, became the heart of the entire disc.

Sia and Rihanna - Beautiful People

That same year, Sia announced that she no longer wanted to pursue a solo career. She was diagnosed with a serious thyroid disease (Graves disease), which significantly affected her well-being. However, she continued to create hits for other singers.

Sia has recorded compositions for (“Exercise”), (“Sweet Design”), (“My HeartIs Open”), (“Broken Glass”), (“House of Fire”), (“Perfume”), Beyoncé (“Pretty Hurts", "Foot prints"), Katy Perry ("Unstoppable"). The most famous hit, which the vocalist did not compose for herself, was the song “Diamonds”, performed by Rihanna and topping the charts in more than 20 countries for a couple of weeks. As Sia herself admitted, she wrote this composition in exactly 14 minutes.

Rihanna - Diamonds

Also, at different times, the singer wrote soundtracks for such popular films as “Twilight” (song “My Love”), “The Hunger Games” (song “Elastic Heart”), “The Great Gatsby” (song “Kill and Run”). In 2013, the Billboard chart released a traditional thematic magazine with the best performers of the year. The cover showed a girl with a paper bag on her head. The inscription on it read:

"She sold 12 million tracks, wrote the Hunger Games soundtrack and still doesn't want to be popular."

The inscription could be peeled off - Sia was hiding behind it. For a long time, the girl hid her face and wore wigs to cover it. When she appeared on the show, the TV presenter couldn't help but ask her about it. And the reason turned out to be surprisingly simple. So, if she wants, she can go buy bread or go to the toilet at a roadside gas station, and no one will follow her with cameras. Sia hates fame and popularity.

Sia and Zayn Malik - Dusk Till Dawn

By the way, the singer doesn’t even star in her own videos. At the same time, it is simply impossible to confuse her work with anyone else. Firstly, Sia has a unique voice, and secondly, almost every video of hers stars young dancer Maddie Ziegler. This girl in a white wig literally became the face of the Sia brand.

All the performer’s masterpieces were born as a result of the collaboration of three people, namely Sia herself, the incredibly talented and charismatic Maddie and choreographer Ryan Heffington.

Ziegler first appeared in Sia's video at the age of 11. The first was "Chandelier". This was followed by “Elastic Heart”, “Big Girls Cry”, “Cheap Thrills”, “The Greatest”. Each one became a sensation in their time.

Sia - Chandelier

In 2014, Kate exploded onto the world stage with her new solo album, 1000 Forms of Fear. The main composition of the record, the single “Chandler,” was nominated four times for a Grammy Award.

In 2015, it became known that more than a third of Australians surveyed voted for Sia to represent Australia at Eurovision. This was the country's debut participation in the competition. But, despite this, the commission of the local SBS television channel selected Guy Theodore Sebastian.

Sia - Unstoppable

In January 2016, the singer’s next album, “This Is Acting,” was released. In support of him, the artist organized a world tour, the first concert of which took place in August 2016 in Moscow.

At the same time, the singer released a video for her joint track with Sean Paul “Cheap Thrills”. The video was funny - a dance competition on an old TV show, interrupted by a couple of contestants wearing Sia's signature wigs.

Sia and Sean Paul - Cheap Thrills

In June 2017, the vocalist released the single and video “Free Me!”, in the filming of which actresses and. It is known that proceeds from the sales of this composition went to the HIV Foundation. In September, the songs and videos “Rainbow” (soundtrack to the film “My Little Pony: The Movie”), “Dusk Till Dawn” (recorded with the participation of ) and “Alive” were released. The third track became the lead single in support of the re-released album “This Is Acting”.

Personal life

The singer’s personal life was quite dramatic. In the early 2000s, the girl met a guy named Dan in London, who became her first true love. The couple went on a trip to Thailand, but due to work, Dan had to return to London before Sia. A week before her arrival, the guy was hit and killed by a car.

After this tragedy, the singer plunged into deep depression, accompanied by uncontrolled use of alcohol and drugs. The desperate girl even tried to commit suicide, but then the singer was saved by a friend who called in time. In 2004, after another nervous breakdown, Sia underwent a full course of rehabilitation, and four years later she openly declared her bisexuality.

In 2009, the singer was recognized as one of the most influential LGBT representatives in Australia. The girl was in a relationship with JD Samson, the lead singer of the group “LeTigre”. Sia has said more than once that she dreams of marrying her. But for unknown reasons, the couple broke up.

In 2014, Kate married American director Eric Anders Lang, but the couple divorced at the end of 2016. The couple had no children. After the breakup, Sia began to lead a healthy lifestyle: the vocalist signed up for yoga classes and became a vegetarian. The singer is in excellent shape - with a height of 164 cm, her weight is 62 kg.

The girl starred with her dog in a video calling on people to castrate their pets to prevent uncontrolled reproduction.

It is known that today the vocalist’s heart is free and she is ready for a new relationship.

Despite the fact that Sia tries not to get caught on camera, she doesn’t always succeed. So, in 2017, she shocked her fans by posting