Who is Helen Reddy?
Helen Reddy found fame and success as a singer and actress. She is best-known for her 1972 Grammy-winning song “I Am Woman.” She was born 25 October 1941 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia to show business parents. Her mother, Shelly Lamond, was a soap opera actress and singer, and her father, Max Reddy, was an actor, writer and producer. Helen Reddy performed on stage in Australia from the age of three. When she was 25, she left Australia for New York after winning an Australian Bandstand International contest. While in New York, Reddy met and married William Morris talent agency manager Jeff Wald and appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Soon after that appearance, Helen Reddy had her first hit song, “I Don’t Know How to Love Him.” But it would be “I Am Woman,” which hit number one on the Billboard music charts in October of 1972, that would become Helen Reddy’s trademark song and also a song associated with feminism in the 1970s. Reddy created controversy when she acce
