Sia
Sia Kate Isobelle Furler, the Australian singer and songwriter known simply as Sia, has spent much of her fame facing away from the people who made her famous. In March 2021, a laneway in the centre of Adelaide was renamed Sia Furler Lane. A mural called She Imagined Buttons was painted on a nearby wall to mark her 2011 performance in the city. By October 2022 she held 15 entries on the APRA billion streams list, more than any other artist. Yet she has said that what she wanted was a private life. How does someone with that wish end up writing and singing chart-topping pop, and why would she hide her face while doing it? And what was she running from before the fame arrived?
Sia was born on the 18th of December 1975 in Adelaide, South Australia. Her father, Phil Colson, is a guitarist, and her mother, Loene Furler, is an art lecturer. The actor Kevin Colson is her uncle. At age 12, she spent a month in New York City with a family friend, the musician Colin Hay. During that stay, Hay attended the Grammy Awards. Sia has pointed to watching the ceremony from his limousine as the spark for her ambition. As a child she copied the performing style of Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder and Sting, and she counts them and Hay among her early influences. She went to Adelaide High School.
In the mid-1990s she began singing with Crisp, a local acid jazz band. She contributed vocals to their 1996 album Word and the Deal and their 1997 EP Delirium. Crisp disbanded in 1997. On the 23rd of December that year, she released her debut album, OnlySee, on Flavoured Records in Australia. It sold only about 1,200 copies. Unlike her later albums, it was marketed under her full name, Sia Furler. Jesse Flavell produced it and wrote most of the songs, while Sia wrote or co-wrote six tracks.
Sia then moved to London, where she worked as a background vocalist for the British band Jamiroquai. She also sang on the first three studio albums by the English downtempo group Zero 7, and she toured with them. On their 2001 album Simple Things she sang on two tracks. One was the single "Destiny", which reached No. 30 on the UK Singles Chart. In 2004 she sang on "Somersault" and "Speed Dial No. 2" from their album When It Falls. In 2006 she worked with the group again on The Garden.
Her own career ran alongside. In 2000 she signed with DancePool, a sub-label of Sony Music, and her single "Taken for Granted" reached No. 10 on the UK Singles Chart. Her second album, Healing Is Difficult, followed in 2001 and blends retro jazz and soul. She was displeased with how it was promoted. So she fired her manager, left Sony Music and signed with Go! Beat, a subsidiary of Universal Music Group. At the 2002 APRA Awards she won the Breakthrough Songwriter category, sharing it with Jennifer Waite and Grant Wallis of the Brisbane pop duo Aneiki.
Her third album, Colour the Small One, arrived in 2004 and mixes acoustic instruments with electronic backing. It produced four singles, including "Don't Bring Me Down" and "Breathe Me". The latter charted in the United Kingdom, Denmark and France. Sia was unhappy with the album's marketing and with its failure to reach a mainstream audience. So in 2005 she relocated to New York City. There, "Breathe Me" was used in the final scene of the HBO series Six Feet Under, which raised her profile across the United States. Her manager, David Enthoven, answered by arranging a tour of the country.
In 1997, on her way to England, Sia received terrible news about her boyfriend, Dan Pontifex. He had been hit by a car and died in hospital. She went back to Australia. Then one of Pontifex's former housemates phoned and invited her to stay in London. Her 2001 album Healing Is Difficult deals with his death in its lyrics. In a 2007 interview with The Sunday Times, she said she had felt numb afterwards. She described a binge of drugs and Special Brew that lasted six years.
The lowest point came in 2010. Sia has spoken of depression and of addictions to painkillers and alcohol. That year she wrote a suicide note, planning to overdose. A friend phoned her and, without meaning to, saved her life. Afterwards she joined Alcoholics Anonymous. She cancelled shows and promotional events because of poor health. She described extreme lethargy and panic attacks, and she considered retiring permanently from performing and touring. She also said she had been diagnosed with Graves' disease. Later that year, she reported that rest and thyroid suppression therapy were helping.
In 2019 she said she has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. She has also said she was diagnosed with complex post-traumatic stress disorder. She links it to childhood traumas, including being sexually abused at the age of nine.
In June 2010, Sia's fifth album, We Are Born, reached No. 2 on the ARIA Albums Chart, and she found her growing fame hard to bear. She later told The New York Times, "I just wanted to have a private life." She described a stranger who interrupted a conversation, in which a friend was telling her about their cancer, to ask for a photograph. She refused to do promotion for her tours and began wearing a mask on stage. She also fired Enthoven and hired Jonathan Daniel, who suggested that she write songs for other artists. Sia retired as a recording artist.
Writing for others was not entirely new to her. In 2009, Christina Aguilera had asked her for ballads, and Aguilera's album Bionic ended up with four songs Sia co-wrote. In 2010 she co-wrote "Bound to You" for the film Burlesque, which starred Aguilera and Cher. The song was nominated for Best Original Song at the 68th Golden Globe Awards. In May 2011 Sia appeared on the first season of the US version of The Voice as an adviser to Aguilera.
Then came "Titanium". Sia wrote it for the American singer Alicia Keys, but it was passed to the DJ David Guetta. He kept her original demo vocals and released it as a single in 2011. It reached the top ten in the United States, Australia and numerous European regions. Sia recalled, "I never even knew it was gonna happen, and I was really upset." She added, "Because I had just retired, I was trying to be a pop songwriter, not an artist."
From 2011 to 2013 she co-wrote songs for Beyoncé, Kylie Minogue, Flo Rida and Rihanna. Her song "Wild Ones" with Flo Rida peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was the tenth best-selling song of 2012 worldwide. She also wrote "Diamonds" for Rihanna and "Pretty Hurts" for Beyoncé. On The Howard Stern Show in 2014, she credited a higher power she calls "Whatever Dude" with inspiring the lyrics of "Diamonds". She described that deity as "a queer, surfing Santa that's a bit like my grandpa". One of her hand tattoos reads "Whatever Dude". In March 2012 she also released a greatest hits album, Best Of..., in Australia.
In October 2013, her own voice returned to the radio. She released "Elastic Heart", featuring the Weeknd and Diplo, for the soundtrack of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.
In July 2014 Sia released her sixth studio album, 1000 Forms of Fear, once again working with the producer Greg Kurstin. It debuted at No. 1 on the US Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 52,000 copies. By October 2015 the RIAA had certified it gold, which denotes 500,000 equivalent-album units. By early 2016 it had sold 1 million copies worldwide. It also topped the chart in Australia and reached the top ten in numerous European regions. The lead single, "Chandelier", came out in March 2014 and peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was her first entry on that chart as a lead artist. By January 2015 it had sold 2 million copies in the United States. At the 57th Annual Grammy Awards it earned four nominations: Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Pop Solo Performance and Best Music Video.
For live performances of those songs, Sia chose not to show her face. She stood facing away from audiences or hid behind oversized platinum blonde wigs. In the videos for "Chandelier", "Elastic Heart" and "Big Girls Cry", the child dancer Maddie Ziegler stood in for her. Ziegler wore a bobbed blonde wig similar to Sia's familiar hairstyle. Ryan Heffington choreographed the videos, and Sia co-directed them with Daniel Askill. Together the three have more than 4 billion views on Vevo.
Sia explained the choice to Kristen Wiig in an interview for Interview magazine. "I'm trying to have some control over my image," she said. "And I'm allowed to maintain some modicum of privacy." She did not want people picking over her weight, her hair extensions or a botched fake tan.
The "Elastic Heart" video "courted controversy and plaudits in equal measure". Sia said its two dancers represented "warring 'Sia' self states". She nevertheless apologised on Twitter to anyone who was "triggered". Gia Kourlas of The New York Times wrote in 2016 about the Heffington collaboration. She said it had "done more to raise the standards of dance in pop music than nearly any current artist integrating the forms." Billboard ranked the "Chandelier" video 10th among the greatest music videos of the 2010s.
In April 2016, Sia's set at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival went viral online. Critics called it "one of the greatest moments in Coachella's 17-year history." It was her first full concert since 2011. That June she played Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado with Ziegler. From May to August she appeared at nearly a dozen festivals and concerts across America, Europe and the Middle East, in countries including Portugal, Russia, Lebanon and Israel.
Her single "Cheap Thrills", featuring Sean Paul, reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. One of its two videos features Ziegler and two male dancers. The other shows a 1950s-style teen dance party and has gathered more than 1.7 billion views. In September 2016 she released "The Greatest" with Kendrick Lamar. Its video was the fifth she had made with Ziegler and Heffington. The next day, she performed "Chandelier" at Apple's annual fall event, which drew media attention. Her YouTube videos have gathered more than 12 billion views, and her channel has more than 24 million subscribers.
The Nostalgic for the Present Tour crossed North America from September to November 2016. Sia stood at the back of the stage in her familiar wig, her face covered. Meanwhile dancers performed Heffington's choreography in sync with pre-recorded videos on big screens. One review said the show "defied all the regular rules of pop concerts." Ed Masley of The Arizona Republic called it "part performance art, part interpretive dance." Sia was nominated for three 2017 Grammy Awards. She also co-wrote and sang on "Dusk Till Dawn" by Zayn, a platinum-selling single. In March 2017 she performed with her dancers, led by Ziegler, at the close of the Dubai World Cup. The tour's second leg, her first stadium tour in Australasia, came in late 2017.
Crisp played acid jazz in Australia and later in London. Sia's first solo single, "Taken for Granted", then drifted into trip hop. With Zero 7 she sang downtempo numbers. Colour the Small One moved her toward jazz and folktronica, though its biggest hit, "Breathe Me", is described as alternative rock and a power ballad. Sia has been blunt about her influences. She said the record "couldn't be more derivative of Kings of Convenience and James Taylor." She also named the music Zero 7 played on the tour bus. "I'm very easily influenced," she added.
Her fourth album, Some People Have Real Problems, came out on the 8th of January 2008. It reached No. 26 on the US Billboard 200, her first album to chart in America. It peaked at No. 41 in Australia and was certified gold there. Its singles included "The Girl You Lost to Cocaine" and "Soon We'll Be Found". Between studio albums she released the live album Lady Croissant in 2007, recorded in part at New York's Bowery Ballroom in April 2006. In May 2009 came the DVD TV Is My Parent, which won Best Music DVD at the ARIA Music Awards. Sia had left Zero 7 on friendly terms in 2008, and Eska Mtungwazi replaced her as the band's frontwoman. From 2009 she dedicated herself entirely to her solo career.
We Are Born, in 2010, folded synthpop and R&B into livelier rhythms and introspective themes. It won two ARIA Awards, Best Independent Release and Best Pop Release. Its singles included "You've Changed" and "Clap Your Hands". The latter earned a Song of the Year nomination at the 2011 APRA Music Awards. 1000 Forms of Fear then tied her to pop, with traces of electropop, reggae and hip-hop.
In February 2015, Sia told NME she had finished the follow-up, This Is Acting. She said she had released 1000 Forms of Fear to free herself from her record deal, intending to write only for others. The album's success changed her mind. This Is Acting is mostly built from songs she wrote with other female pop artists in mind, which those artists never put on their own albums. One of them, "Alive", was co-written by Adele and had originally been meant for Adele's third album, 25. Sia called writing for others "play-acting". Kitty Empire of The Guardian saw the album as a counterpoint to the more personal 1000 Forms of Fear. She wrote that it "makes plain the fact of manufacture", "a process akin to bespoke tailoring."
In 2017 Sia moved from RCA to Atlantic Records and released Everyday Is Christmas in November. Its songs were co-written and co-produced with Kurstin. She performed the single "Snowman" on the finale of the 13th season of The Voice, and it has become one of the most-streamed Christmas songs of all time. In 2018 she teamed with the English musician Labrinth and the American DJ Diplo to form LSD. They released five singles, "Genius", "Audio", "Thunderclouds", "Mountains" and "No New Friends", before their album arrived in April 2019.
Her tenth album, Reasonable Woman, was released on the 3rd of May 2024. Mark Kennedy of the Associated Press praised her range, from hurt and broken to ecstatic to vengeful. He found her most interesting in duets and collaborations, naming "Dance Alone" with Kylie Minogue, "Incredible" with Labrinth and "Fame Won't Love You" with Paris Hilton. He also said she "rarely shifts out of third gear". Sia executive produced Hilton's 2024 album Infinite Icon. Critics have described her own voice as "deep, playful, and powerful". One writer for The Fader called it singular among the Hot 100's voices, with songwriting that deals with depression and addiction. National Public Radio went further and called her "the 21st century's most resilient songwriter".
Sia's feature directing debut, Music, grew from a story she wrote in 2007. She turned it into the screenplay for the 2021 musical film starring Maddie Ziegler, Kate Hudson and Leslie Odom Jr. She also directed it and wrote its soundtrack. It opened in Australia in January 2021. On the 10th of February 2021, it played for one night in select IMAX theatres in the US, followed by an on-demand release. Critics reviewed it negatively, and its depiction of autism generated controversy. After the backlash, Sia said she had been diagnosed with autism. The film was nominated for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy at the 78th Golden Globe Awards. She also won the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director. She has said the backlash made her relapse, become suicidal again and return to rehabilitation.
The companion album, Music - Songs from and Inspired by the Motion Picture, came out in February 2021. It reached number 8 on the US Billboard soundtrack album chart and number 12 on the ARIA charts. Its sound added more electropop and reggae, alongside R&B and EDM.
Her songs have turned up on a long list of soundtracks. In 2014 she and Kurstin wrote three new songs for the film adaptation of the Broadway musical Annie, and reworked songs from the show. Sia, Kurstin and the film's director, Will Gluck, were nominated for Best Original Song at the 72nd Golden Globe Awards for "Opportunity". In November 2015 she co-wrote and sang "One Candle" with the composer J. Ralph for the environmental documentary Racing Extinction.
She has also lent her voice to screens in odd places. In the 2014 South Park episode "The Cissy", she sang the fictional Lorde track "Push (Feeling Good on a Wednesday)". In 2016 she covered the Beatles' "Blackbird" for the Netflix series Beat Bugs. In 2017 she voiced the pop star Songbird Serenade in My Little Pony: The Movie and contributed an original song, "Rainbow". She wrote the songs for the 2018 musical film Vox Lux, which has a score by Scott Walker. She voiced Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle in Peter Rabbit and its sequel. In February 2015 she even released a mobile game, Bob Job.
A stage project is next. A musical theatre adaptation of the film Saturday Church was set to premiere off-Broadway in late 2025. Damon Cardasis and James Ijames wrote the book, and Sia wrote the music and lyrics, with additional music by Honey Dijon.
In 2016, Sia made a surprise appearance on the live reunion of Survivor: Kaôh Rōng, a reality series she is an avid fan of. She donated $50,000 to the contestant Tai Trang and another $50,000 to an animal charity of his choice, noting that they share a love of animals. She has since regularly awarded prizes to her favourite contestants, a tradition billed as the "Sia Award". By the end of the 45th season, she had given contestants a total of $1 million.
Before Thanksgiving in 2019, Sia went in disguise to a Walmart and a TJ Maxx in Palm Springs, California. There she paid for people's groceries and shopping. In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, she pledged to donate $1 million to CORE Response. She also gave the proceeds from her single "Saved My Life" to the relief efforts of CORE Response and AmeriCares. That year she gave $100,000 to Australians in need, working with the Nova FM DJs Fitzy & Wippa. She gave another $100,000 to community bail funds in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Sia is a vegetarian and calls herself an "animal lover". In 2010 she joined a PETA campaign to tackle animal overpopulation and encourage people to spay or neuter their pets. In 2013 she performed her song "I'm in Here" at the Beagle Freedom Project Gala. In 2015 her song "Free the Animal" was used in PETA public service announcements supporting cruelty-free fashion. During her 2016 tour she partnered with animal rescue organisations to hold dog adoption fairs at each show. In 2017 she released a public service announcement with the ASPCA, using her song "Puppies Are Forever", to encourage pet adoption. In 2018 she co-narrated the Australian animal rights documentary Dominion, and she shared in a 2018 Award of Excellence from the Hollywood International Independent Documentary Awards.
Her own family grew in 2019, when she adopted two boys who were ageing out of the foster care system. In 2020 she announced that she had become a grandmother, after one of her two 19-year-old sons fathered twins.
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Who is Sia the singer and songwriter?
Sia Kate Isobelle Furler is an Australian singer and songwriter born on the 18th of December 1975 in Adelaide, South Australia. She began her career in the acid jazz band Crisp in the mid-1990s.
Why does Sia hide her face in public?
Sia has worn a wig that obscures her face since 1000 Forms of Fear to protect her privacy. She told Interview magazine she was trying to have some control over her image and maintain some modicum of privacy.
Which songs did Sia write for other artists?
Sia co-wrote "Titanium" with David Guetta, "Diamonds" for Rihanna, "Wild Ones" with Flo Rida and "Pretty Hurts" for Beyoncé. "Wild Ones" peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was the tenth best-selling song of 2012 worldwide.
What was Sia's first number one on the Billboard Hot 100?
Sia's single "Cheap Thrills", featuring Sean Paul, reached No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100. It came from her seventh album, This Is Acting, released in 2016.
Who is Maddie Ziegler in Sia's music videos?
Maddie Ziegler is a child dancer who performed as a proxy for Sia in the videos for "Chandelier", "Elastic Heart" and "Big Girls Cry". She wore a bobbed blonde wig similar to Sia's familiar hairstyle, and the three videos have more than 4 billion views on Vevo.
What is the Sia Award on Survivor?
The Sia Award is the name given to prizes Sia has regularly given to her favourite contestants on the reality series Survivor since 2016. By the end of the 45th season, she had given contestants a total of $1 million.
What was Sia's film Music about and how was it received?
Music is Sia's 2021 feature film directorial debut, a musical starring Maddie Ziegler, Kate Hudson and Leslie Odom Jr. It received negative reviews and controversy over its depiction of autism, and Sia won the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director.
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- 189MagazineMusicians Who've Posed for PETA (And Sometimes Stripped Down): Pink, Sia and More13 May 2015
- 190Sia Takes a Bite out of Animal OverpopulationPETA — 24 May 2012
- 192Sia Furler Performs at Beagle Freedom Project GalaBeagle Freedom Project — 22 May 2014
- 193Sia Scores PETA's Fashion Show Parody In Which Animals Wear Human FleshPETA — 23 November 2015
- 195Sia Teams Up With the ASPCA to Encourage Pet AdoptionJessica Vacco-Bolanos — 13 December 2017
- 196ASPCA and Pop Superstar Sia Team Up to Remind Everyone That "Puppies Are Forever"ASPCA — 6 December 2017
- 198Sia Reveals Reason She Wears Wigs in James Corden's Carpool KaraokeEbony Bowden — 18 February 2016
- 199NewsSia Reveals Reason She Wears Wigs in James Corden's Carpool Karaoke18 February 2016
- 200NewsA Woman on the VergeLisa Verrico — 30 December 2007
- 201NewsSia Furler Gets Married in US4 August 2014
- 202MagazineSia Describes Parenthood as 'Painful and Rewarding' After Adopting Two Teenage Sons: 'It's Hard'Nicholas Rice — 4 January 2021
- 203Sia Says She Suffered 'Severe' Three-Year Depression After Erik Anders Lang DivorceMeredith Clark — 15 September 2023
- 204Magazine10 Things We Learned From Sia's Howard Stern InterviewGreg Moskovitch — 19 June 2014
- 205Maddie Ziegler on Sia's 'Chandelier' Video, Dance Moms, and Drew BarrymoreE. Alex Jung — 21 May 2014
- 206Beyonce's Rave Review for Aussie Songwriter Sia FurlerAustralian Regional Media — 19 December 2013
- 207MagazineSia Confirms She Is a GrandmotherOlivia Blair — 2 July 2020
- 208Sia Opens up About Adopting 2 Teenage SonsSamantha Kubota — 21 May 2020
- 209NewsSia Adopted Two Teen Sons — and They Changed Her Life ForeverJennifer Ferrise — 13 October 2020
- 210Sia, 44, Becomes Grandmother After Teenage Son Welcomes 'Two Babies'Toyin Owoseje — 1 July 2020
- 211NewsAdelaide Born Sia Is a Grandmother at 44Olivia Williams — 2 July 2020
- 212Sia Marries Boyfriend Dan Bernad in Surprise Wedding in Portofino: See the Photos!Emily Strohm — 9 May 2023
- 213MagazineSia Marries Boyfriend Dan BernadAtkinson Katie — 9 May 2023
- 214MagazineSia Quietly Welcomed Baby No. 3, Somersault, With Estranged Husband 11 Months Ago, Divorce Documents RevealHannah Sacks et al.
- 215MagazineSia Files for Divorce from Second Husband Daniel Bernad After 2 Years of MarriageIlana Kaplan et al.
- 216MagazineSia Agrees to Pay Over $40k a Month in Child Support to Estranged Husband Daniel BernadAngelique Brenes et al. — 6 April 2026
- 217Sia's brutal statement as eye-watering monthly payment to ex revealedNick Bond — News Corporation Australia — 8 April 2026
- 218NewsSia's Coming OutKarman Kregloe — 10 February 2008
- 219Sia, The Power Balladist Who Wants to PartyTim Murphy — 20 June 2010
- 220NewsHit Girl Sia ... The Singer Who Writes Rihanna and Jessie J's Chart-ToppersLotte Jeffs — 16 November 2012
- 221NewsSia, J.D. Samson Confirm Split13 June 2011
- 22325 Essential LGBTQ Pride SongsJerry Portwood et al. — 1 June 2019
- 224NewsSia Furler, The Socially Phobic Pop StarSteve Knopper — 18 April 2014
- 225NewsSia on Making the Move into Directing and Her First Film, MusicFrancesca Angelini — 11 February 2021
- 227Sia Furler: Fame Does Not Become HerAndrew Murfett — 18 June 2010
- 228Sia Chats About ARIA AwardsInertia Music
- 229Pop Star Sia Opens Up About Her Chronic PainMichele R. Berman et al. — 10 October 2019
- 231NewsSia Opens Up About Dealing With PTSD And Suicidal ThoughtsCorey Atad — 1 July 2020
- 232Sia Reveals 'I Was Suicidal' and 'Went to Rehab' After Backlash to Controversial 'Music' FilmZack Sharf — 19 January 2022
- 233MagazineSia Releases Haunting 'California Dreamin' Cover for 'San Andreas' MovieErin Strecker — 2 May 2015
- 237MagazineWatch Sia Cover Nat King Cole's 'Unforgettable' for 'Finding Dory' on 'Ellen'20 May 2016
- 238NewsHear Sia's Sweeping New Anthem 'To Be Human' from 'Wonder Woman' SoundtrackBrittany Spanos — 25 May 2017
- 240MagazineA Wrinkle in Time Soundtrack Taps Sade, Sia, Game of Thrones ComposerMarc Snetiker — 20 February 2018
- 242Kangaroo Valley to Showcase Namadgi National Park to the WorldAlex Crowe — 27 December 2022