LOS ANGELES - Helen Reddy, the Australian-born singer whose 1972 hit song I Am Woman became the feminist anthem of the decade and propelled her to international pop-music stardom, died on Tuesday in Los Angeles. She was 78.
She was the first Australian-born artist to win a Grammy and make the Billboard 100 record charts. Some male observers called the song - beginning with the words"I am woman/ Hear me roar/ In numbers/ Too big to ignore," sung by a 5-foot-3 soprano - angry, man-hating, dangerous or all three. The Reddys performed on the Australian vaudeville circuit, and Helen began joining them onstage when she was four. At 12, she rebelled by quitting show business and going to live with an aunt while her parents toured.
Times were hard, especially when the couple lived in New York. In The Woman I Am: A Memoir , she wrote:"When we did eat, it was spaghetti, and we spent what little money we had on cockroach spray." She made her big-screen debut in the disaster movie Airport 1975 as a guitar-playing nun who comforts a sick little girl on an almost certainly doomed 747. She always liked to point out that Gloria Swanson and Myrna Loy were also in the cast.
Her last song to make the American charts was I Can't Say Goodbye to You , and Imagination was her last album. Her final screen appearance was in The Perfect Host , a crime comedy with David Hyde Pierce.
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