How much is Helen Reddy worth?
| Net Worth: | $4 Million |
|---|---|
| Profession: | Professional singer |
| Date of Birth: | 25 October 1941 |
| Country: | Australia (American) |
| Height: | 1.6 m |
About Helen Reddy
In December of 1972, Reddy’s single “I Am Woman” climbed to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, which was the defining moment in her meteoric rise to fame. Reddy and Ray Burton are credited with writing the song together. Reddy stated that she owes the inspiration for penning “I Am Woman” as well as her early understanding of the women’s movement to Lillian Roxon, an expatriate Australian rock critic and pioneer feminist.
Helen Maxine Reddy was born into a well-known Australian showbusiness family in Melbourne. Her mother, Stella Campbell (née Lamond), was an actress, singer, and dancer, and her father, Maxwell David “Max” Reddy, was a writer, producer, and actor. Her paternal grandparents were also involved in the entertainment industry. When Reddy was only four years old, she accompanied her parents on the vaudeville tour in Australia, singing and dancing.
She sang her songs on radio and television, and eventually she triumphed in a talent competition on the Australian pop music television show Bandstand. The reward was purportedly a trip to New York City to record a single for Mercury Records. She won the competition.
After she arrived in New York in 1966, she was informed by Mercury that her prize was only the chance to “audition” for the label, and that Mercury considered the footage she had performed on Bandstand to constitute her audition, which Mercury considered to be unsuccessful. She was disappointed to learn that her prize was only the chance to “audition” for the label. She made the decision to pursue a career as a singer in the United States despite the fact that she had only US$200 (which would be equivalent to $1,670 in 2021) and a return ticket to Australia. Traci, who was three years old, accompanied her.
In 1968, Martin St. James, an Australian stage hypnotist that she had met in New York City, threw Reddy a party with an admission price of US$5 (equivalent to $38.96 in 2021) to enable Reddy, who was then down to her last US$12 (equivalent to $93.51 in 2021), to pay her rent. The party had an admission price of US$5 (equivalent to $38.96 in 2021).
In 1968, she tied the knot with Jeff Wald, who was born and raised in the Bronx. Prior to her marriage to Wald and the birth of their son Jordan in 1972, she underwent a religious conversion to Judaism. Wald stated that Reddy and he got married three days after their first meeting, and that the couple moved into the Hotel Albert in Greenwich Village with their daughter Traci. Later on, Reddy revealed that the reason she wed Wald was because she was desperate to protect her right to work and reside in the United States.
Within a year, Wald brought Reddy and Traci to Los Angeles, where he was hired at Capitol Records, the label under which Reddy was to achieve stardom. On the same day that Wald was hired at Capitol Records, however, he was sacked from his position there. While this was going on, in the same year (1969), Reddy enrolled in the part-time psychology and philosophy programs at the University of California, Los Angeles.
I Do not Know How to Love Him, which was her first album and was released in May of 1971, was when “I Am Woman” was first heard. In May of 1972, a new rendition of the song was issued as a single, although it failed to make much of an impact on the charts. The Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance went to Helen Reddy for her song “I Am Woman” At the conclusion of her acceptance speech at the awards ceremony, Reddy gave a renowned thank-you to God. After her initial success, Reddy went on to have more than a dozen songs that peaked in the top 40 in the United States, including two additional songs that reached number one.
Because of her contributions to the music industry, Reddy was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on July 23, 1974. Her star can be found at 1750 Vine Street. From “Delta Dawn” in 1973 through “I Can not Hear You No More” in 1976, Reddy had the most success on the Easy Listening list, where there were eight number-one songs over the course of three years. The most popular song was “I Can not Hear You No More.” In 1978, Reddy contributed her vocals as a backup singer to “True Confessions” the title track of Gene Simmons‘ solo album.
Additionally, in that same year, Reddy’s one and only live album, titled Live in London and recorded at the London Palladium, was made available for purchase. Play Me Out was Reddy’s first album to be released under MCA Records, and it was released in 1981.
On her own record label in 1990, Reddy released an album titled Feel So Young. This album featured reimaginings of some of Reddy’s most popular songs from her catalog. In the meantime, her only recording up until that point had been the dance maxi single “Mysterious Kind” released in 1987. In 2002, Reddy made public her intention to retire from the performing industry, and she did so by making a final performance with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra.
