Vanessa Amorosi

A pop singer known for her passionate and agile vocal delivery, Vanessa Amorosi became the first Australian woman to reach number one on the ARIA chart with a debut when she released The Power in 2000. It was accompanied by invitations to perform at both the opening and closing ceremonies of that year's Summer Olympic Games in Sydney. She returned to the Australian Top Ten with 2008's Somewhere in the Real World as well as the next year's Hazardous. Following a decade-long gap between albums that included a scrapped LP and differences with her label, she returned with sets inc...