After being discovered at 15 years old,Vanessa Amorosi achieved amazing success in 1998 with her debut single Have A Look. The single went Gold after only seven weeks in the ARIA charts. This achievement was followed by mega-hits in Australia and Europe with Absolutely Everybody, and Shine, and at the age of 18 years Vanessa became the first Australian female to reach #1 on the National ARIA chart with her debut album ‘The Power’. The album went to sell over 1 million copies across the world.
Following this success, Vanessa performed at the opening & closing Sydney 2000 Olympic ceremonies, the Manchester Commonwealth Games and received a vast collection of awards both within Australia and Internationally.
In January 2006, Vanessa relaunched her recording career by signing to Universal Music worldwide with new powerhouse manager, Ralph Carr. Deciding to record in Los Angeles “to get out of her comfort zone”, Vanessa wrote hundreds of songs with some of
the greatest talents in the world. She recorded with songwriters and producers Ron Aniello (Barenaked Ladies) Greg Wells (Mika, Timbaland) and Cliff Magness (Pink, Avril Lavigne).
In 2008 Vanessa released the album Somewhere in the Real World, through Universal Music Australia, on May 24 2008. The album tracks "Perfect" and "Start It" have both been used in promotions for the Seven Network. "Start It" is Channel 7's AFL song for 2008 and will be used again in 2009. Released digitally and in stores on May 24, 2008, Somewhere in the Real World was already sitting at Number 3 on the national iTunes chart within hours of its release and climbing to number 2 within the first 24 hours and finally hitting the number 1 spot on the charts after just 4 days of release. "Somewhere In The Real World" reached Gold sales in Australia.
The single "Kiss Your Mama!" was serviced to radio on 3 August and released 8 September 2007. On a special edition of Australian Idol she sang her hit song "Kiss Your Mama!".
Amorosi released her second single "Perfect" digitally on 5 April and physically on 26 April 2008. The single made it to number 1 on the digital iTunes charts on the 7th of June 2008. "Perfect" reached Platinum sales in Australia and was the most played Australian song on Australian radio for 2008. "Perfect" is nominated for the 2009 APRA awards for 'Most Played Australian Work'.
The song "The Simple Things (Something Emotional)" was released as the third single on 20 September 2008.
In December 2008, a video for the song "My House" was released onto her website.
US rockers Hoobastank have enlisted Vanessa Amorosi to feature on their new single “The Letter”, which was mixed by Chris Lord-Alge (Green Day, Simple Plan, My Chemical Romance). The video which features Vanessa, was shot in Los Angles at Lacy Street Studio with Grammy nominated director Paul Brown (Jack White/Alicia Keyes). Both the video and single is serviced to Australian media on Monday May 4.
Vanessa Amorosi is currently in LA writing and recording her new album
Latest bulletin 06.29.09
"The Letter" - new Hoobastank track, feat. Vanessa Amorosi!
US rockers Hoobastank have enlisted Vanessa Amorosi to feature on their new single “The Letter”, which was mixed by Chris Lord-Alge (Green Day, Simple Plan, My Chemical Romance). The video which features Vanessa, was shot in Los Angles at Lacy Street Studio with Grammy nominated director Paul Brown (Jack White/Alicia Keyes). Both the video and single will be serviced to Australian media on Monday May 4.
Doug Robb, lead singer of Hoobastank committed about working with Vanessa, “We were all very excited about how the song The Letter turned out with Vanessa singing on it. She brought a haunting yet powerful quality to the song that we think sounds great. The video was a blast to make as well. She rounded out the story perfectly and I finally got to trash a room. This is one of my favourite videos of ours so far. It looks amazing.”
“I loved the song from the first time I heard it. To be asked to sing on it by Hoobastank was amazing, they are a great bunch of guys. I can personally relate to the lyrics and message,” said Vanessa Amorosi.
Vanessa you should of won an Aria your music is magic.
Australia is lucky to have you.
Oct 20, 03:55 PM
Vanessa, why didn't you win all the Aria awards? Gabriella Climi has nothing on you!...love EVERY song on your latest CD! especially Kiss your Mama! I love singing that one myself, it gets me soooo pumped!..you're absolutely gorgeous & extremely talented!..definitely UNDER-RATED!...come on Aussies, we gotta support Vanessa 100% & get her up there with the world's #1 DIVA's !!! love ya Vanessa! :D xxxxxx
Sep 24, 01:43 AM
Damn we have good talent here in Aus!! Damn Hot!
Aug 16, 09:44 AM
Hanneke, you twat.
Aug 16, 06:31 AM
Hello there! Love "Absolutely everybody"! :D Just one question...
I'm searching for her song "Champagne, Champagne, from the soundtrack of "Absolument Fabuleux", the French film after the British series Absolutely Fabulous..If anyone has it..I'd be delighted!! :D
Xxxx Hannekee