Cheryl JBreathe Me - Sia
Breathe Me by Sia is a song you have probably heard snippets of lately in the Olympic Games advertising. You may recognise it as the song that played out the final minutes of the series Six Feet Under in the beautifully moving finale.
It is also one of my all time favourite songs. It is achingly beautiful.
Her innovative video clip for Breathe Me is made up of 2500 polaroid photos.
Born in Adelaide , Sia was raised on what was known as the hippiest street in Australia. Coming from a musical family, her dad briefly played guitar in uncle Colin's band Men At Work. Sia's music didn't get serious until she joined jazz-funk bar band Crisp at 17.
After three years fronting Crisp, Sia booked an open ended ticket on a round the world trip ending up in London. In 2000 she scored a Top 10 hit with her Prokofiev-sampling Taken For Granted single and followed it up with her acclaimed debut album, Healing Is Difficult.
Sia is perhaps best known however for her considerable contribution to Zero 7's hugely successful and widely acclaimed Simple Things album. In fact, Sia credits the biggest influence on her new album as touring with Zero 7. “That's when I actually started listening to music,” she says. “While we were on tour, the guys were always talking about artists I'd never heard of, so I started listening to their James Taylor, Nick Drake, Harry Nilsson, Randy Newman and Django Bates CDs. And it all just really blew me away.”
2003 saw Sia release an EP entitled Don't Bring Me Down. This was used as the closing title track of the French Movie 36 Quai des Orfèvres. Her second album, entitled Colour the Small One, was released in Australia and Europe the following year. This downtempo album saw Sia employ a mixture of acoustic instruments and electronic backing in her material. It featured The Bully, which was a collaboration with American musician Beck Hansen. “There was this kid at school who I used to be really cruel to, and I've felt bad about it ever since. It got to the point where I was having nightmares about it" she quoted.
Colour the Small One spawned the singles Breathe Me and Where I Belong. The latter track was earmarked to appear on the soundtrack of the film Spider-Man 2, but owing to a record label conflict, its inclusion was withdrawn.
In early 2005, Sia parted company with Go! Beat Records, disappointed at the company's poor promotion of the album, and the failure of the label's U.S. counterpart to pick up the record. Meanwhile, Breathe Me was beginning to receive international notice with appearances on the series finale of the U.S. HBO television series Six Feet Under and the broadcast of the 2006 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. The track had been licensed to Astralwerks (which also produces the Six Feet Under soundtracks), and based on positive feedback, the full license of Colour the Small One was picked up by Astralwerks and given an American release in early 2006.
To listen to songs from her new album Some People Have Real Problems go to SIA'S WEBSITE.
To see her myspace page CLICK HERE
Information siamusic.net and Wikipedia
It is also one of my all time favourite songs. It is achingly beautiful.
Her innovative video clip for Breathe Me is made up of 2500 polaroid photos.
Born in Adelaide , Sia was raised on what was known as the hippiest street in Australia. Coming from a musical family, her dad briefly played guitar in uncle Colin's band Men At Work. Sia's music didn't get serious until she joined jazz-funk bar band Crisp at 17.
After three years fronting Crisp, Sia booked an open ended ticket on a round the world trip ending up in London. In 2000 she scored a Top 10 hit with her Prokofiev-sampling Taken For Granted single and followed it up with her acclaimed debut album, Healing Is Difficult.
Sia is perhaps best known however for her considerable contribution to Zero 7's hugely successful and widely acclaimed Simple Things album. In fact, Sia credits the biggest influence on her new album as touring with Zero 7. “That's when I actually started listening to music,” she says. “While we were on tour, the guys were always talking about artists I'd never heard of, so I started listening to their James Taylor, Nick Drake, Harry Nilsson, Randy Newman and Django Bates CDs. And it all just really blew me away.”
2003 saw Sia release an EP entitled Don't Bring Me Down. This was used as the closing title track of the French Movie 36 Quai des Orfèvres. Her second album, entitled Colour the Small One, was released in Australia and Europe the following year. This downtempo album saw Sia employ a mixture of acoustic instruments and electronic backing in her material. It featured The Bully, which was a collaboration with American musician Beck Hansen. “There was this kid at school who I used to be really cruel to, and I've felt bad about it ever since. It got to the point where I was having nightmares about it" she quoted.
Colour the Small One spawned the singles Breathe Me and Where I Belong. The latter track was earmarked to appear on the soundtrack of the film Spider-Man 2, but owing to a record label conflict, its inclusion was withdrawn.
In early 2005, Sia parted company with Go! Beat Records, disappointed at the company's poor promotion of the album, and the failure of the label's U.S. counterpart to pick up the record. Meanwhile, Breathe Me was beginning to receive international notice with appearances on the series finale of the U.S. HBO television series Six Feet Under and the broadcast of the 2006 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. The track had been licensed to Astralwerks (which also produces the Six Feet Under soundtracks), and based on positive feedback, the full license of Colour the Small One was picked up by Astralwerks and given an American release in early 2006.
To listen to songs from her new album Some People Have Real Problems go to SIA'S WEBSITE.
To see her myspace page CLICK HERE
Information siamusic.net and Wikipedia
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