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In 2000, Sia signed to Sony Music's sub-label Dance Pool and released her second studio album, Healing Is Difficult, the following year. Displeased with the promotion of the record, she signed to Go! Beat and released her third studio album, Colour the Small One, in 2004. Dissatisfied with the project's struggling to connect with a mainstream audience, Sia relocated to New York City in 2005 and began touring across the United States. Sia released her fourth and fifth studio releases, Some People Have Real Problems and We Are Born, in 2008 and 2010, respectively. In 2014, Sia released her sixth studio album, 1000 Forms of Fear, which was preceded by the top-ten single "Chandelier". She is currently working on her seventh studio album This Is Acting.
Sia's music incorporates hip hop, funk and soul as a base for her vocal styling. In 2014, she was ranked the 97th richest Australian person under the age of 40 by BRWmagazine, with a reported net worth of AU$20 million. Her music has received an array of accolades, including ARIA Awards and MTV Music Awards.
Trade Mark
Platinum blonde bob hair and wigs
Doesn't like to show her face on TV appearances and music videos
Trivia
2010 October, Sia revels via Twitter, that she is suffering affects of Graves' Disease.Furler is a vegetarian.
Her first name is pronounced "SEE-ah".
(August 2, 2014) Married her longtime boyfriend Erik Anders Lang following a 2-month-long engagement.
Personal Quotes (28)
I'm an advocate of 'it's not what you are, it's who you are.'
I'm just completely obsessed with Die Antwoord.
I love visual gags and gimmicks; I love them.
Knowing now what goes into making a successful artist, it's disheartening.
Like when I'm singing live I can't hear myself. I'm just listening to the rest of the band. To listen to my voice, it doesn't even feel like it's me.
I'm sort of a gay man trapped in a woman's body when it comes to music sometimes - it's crowded in here!
I hope I am a psychotherapist's dream. I've spent enough hours in therapy.
When I was 10, my parents really valued success in the arts, and I thought if I was a famous 'something artistic,' that they would love me more.
I don't really even go out that much now except to walk my dogs, because I don't want to be recognised.
I'm sensitive and get easily upset and insulted.
Fame made me develop a panic disorder.
I don't know anything about the history of music.
I don't need to be rich anymore; I don't need to be a millionaire.
I don't read reviews or interviews or anything, just because I'm afraid; If I believed the good, then I'd believe the bad, and there will be bad.
I was weirdly obsessed with music until I was 11, and then I turned into a nerd.
I'll be the songwriter for pop stars and then they can be the front person and I don't have to be famous.
I'm a fan of the Strokes, so my big fantasy was that one day I would get to sing with them.
People aren't honest about the horrors of fame. The downsides are so overwhelming that, for me, there is no payoff.
There are probably five songs in the world that I get excited about when I hear them on the radio.
A lot of people come up to me expecting to meet the person they have seen perform. It's not going to happen, unless my mania, my stage person, responds to them and not the real me.
I don't go to shows because I just want to listen to the music performed live. I want to get to know the person who's performing it. Or I want to, like, take away a sense that I had an experience that nobody else is going to have again, or a unique experience for that moment.
I have social anxiety. It's easier up on stage because there's security in being there. When I'm off stage I'm trying not to be a manic freak. I'm quite shy.
People call me for the ballads. Apparently that's where I've been pigeonholed. But it's really interesting and really fun. It's my favourite part of the job, writing.
When you're entertaining all day long and that's your work, you end up really very tired. You don't have a lot of energy left over for your loved ones.
I liked myself much more before I got famous. I was much friendlier and had more energy.
I love watching reality TV, but being part of making it was just demoralising.
I think it would be very difficult to maintain one kind of art or whatever for your whole life. I think it's unrealistic.
I'm really visually stimulated more than anything. I don't really listen to music. I'm more into watching telly or watching movies and visual art.
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