Feminist Icon Helen Reddy Passes Away during 78

The children of Australian-American singer/songwriter Helen Reddy, 78, announced their mom upheld divided on Sept. 29, 2020. Her iconic strain “I Am Woman,” desirous feminists with absolute lyrics that shortly became a movement’s anthem.

She speedy women and girls to lift their voices and make themselves heard. The initial verse of “I Am Woman” says all a budding feminist needs for encouragement:

I am woman, hear me roar
In numbers too large to ignore
And we know too most to go behind an’ pretend
‘Cause I’ve listened it all before
And I’ve been down there on a floor
No one’s ever gonna keep me down again.

The singular found on her entrance manuscript “I Don’t Know How to Love Him,” expelled in May 1971, warranted Reddy a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.

Other songs that strike a tip 40 include; her chronicle of Alex Harvey’s “Delta Dawn” and Alan O’Day’s “Angie Baby.” Reddy was awarded a Star on a Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1974. She hosted her possess “The Helen Reddy Show” and achieved on “The Carol Burnett Show” and “The Muppet Show.”

Her opening in “Pete’s Dragon” along with a strain in a film “Candle on a Water” garnered her an Oscar assignment for Best Song.

Reddy late in 2002. A decade after she seemed “in a integrate of one-off performances, according to Rolling Stone” During a 2017 Women’s March, she sang “I Am Woman” a cappella with Jamie Lee Curtis and other vocalists.

IMDb describes a 2019 biopic film “I Am Woman” as “the story of 1970s musician and romantic Helen Reddy.” Tilda Cobham-Hervey portraying Reddy can be seen on renouned streaming services.

Her children Traci Donat and Jordan Sommers posted her genocide presentation on Facebook. Reddy was an unusual mom and grandmom. They pronounced they were sad though felt comfort meaningful she would live perpetually by her music.

Written by Cathy Milne-Ware

Sources:

Rolling Stone: Helen Reddy, ‘I Am Woman’ Singer and Activist, Dead during 78; Althea Legaspi

Rolling Stone: Feminist Singer Helen Reddy Gets Her Own Biopic With ‘I Am Woman’ Trailer; Claire Shaffer

Lyric Find: we Am Woman

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