Reddy died Tuesday afternoon at her home in Los Angeles.
She was a wonderful Mother, Grandmother and a truly formidable woman.
Our hearts are broken.
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But we take comfort in the knowledge that her voice will live on forever.
She also starred in Disney’sPete Dragon, in which she sang the Oscar-nominated Candle On the Water.
Reddy was nominated for a Golden Globe for her role inAirport 1975.
Helen Reddy was born into a well-known show business family on Oct. 25, 1941, in Melbourne.
Her mother was an actress, and her father was a writer, producer, and actor.
From the age of 4, Reddy joined her parents as a performer on the Australian vaudeville circuit.
She struggled for several years, performing in night clubs.
I Am Woman was to become her biggest success and her first No.
The song made her the first Australian singer to ever top the U.S. music charts.
Throughout the 1970s, Reddy had over a dozen Top 40 hits, including two more No.
1s, Delta Dawn and Angie Baby.
She found a second career as a practicing clinical hypnotherapist.
In 2006, she published the memoirThe Woman I Am.
Reddy was introduced by Jamie Lee Curtis and broke into an a capella rendition of I Am Woman.
Reddy was diagnosed with dementia in August 2015.
