Olivia Newton-John is one of the most successful female singers in music history.
She has long been one of my personal favorite singers.
She was born in England in 1948 but moved to Australia at a young age and was raised in that country.
She released her first solo album, “If Not for You“, in 1971.
She had great success in the 1970’s with most of her hits charting in the Billboard Adult Contemporary or Billboard Country Charts.
Though she faced resentment within the Country Music community as a “foriegner” singing Country music, she won the coveted Country Music Association Female Singer of the Year Award in 1974 over the other nominees which included Country Music legends Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, and Tanya Tucker.
Her music thrived thoughout the 1970’s and soon she was charting hits on the Billboard Top-40, BillBoard Adult Contemporary, and BillBoard Country Charts.
She appeared in the 1978 Musical Film “Grease” alongside John Travolta and that film launched another group of hit songs that kept her anchored on the Charts.
“Grease” went on to become the top-grossing Musical in Hollywood history.
In 1980, she appeared opposite Hollywood screen and dance legend Gene Kelly in the film “Xanadu“.
Olivia and John Travolta re-teamed in 1983 for the film “Two of a Kind“.
The 1980’s continued to see Olivia Newton-John have tremendous success on the Charts.
Over the course of her career, she has released such hits as:
If Not for You
Have You Never Been Mellow?
I Honestly Love You
Let Me Be There
If You Love Me (Let Me Know)
Please Mr. Please
Come On Over
Sam
You’re the One that I Want (With John Travolta)
Hopelessly Devoted To You
Twist of Fate
A Little More Love
Deeper than the Night
Magic
Xanadu
Suddenly (With Cliff Richard)
Physical
Make a Move on Me
Physical
Soul Kiss
and many, many more.
To date, she has charted 13 singles into the Billboard Country Top-40 Charts.
She has charted 27 singles onto the Billboard Top-40 Charts.
Five of her singles reached #1 on the Billboard Top-40 Charts.
She has released 24 Studio Albums during her career.
She has been nominated for 12 career Grammy Awards.
She has won 4 Grammy Awards during her career.
The video for “Physical” won the Grammy for Best Music Video in 1982.
She has a Star on the Hollywood Walk-of-Fame.
She is a Breast Cancer survivor and spends much of her time supporting various Cancer Awareness Causes.
She continues to occasionally tour and still makes frequent television appearances. She is slated to guest-star as herself on an episode of the hit show “Glee” in 2010.
I wrote to her last year as part of my autograph collecting hobby as she was nice enough to send me a signed photo. A truly classy Lady!
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