The Helen Reddy biopic 'I Am Woman' premiered this week at TIFF19
, advancing the plot as her soon-to-be-anthem “I Am Woman” rises to No. 1 on the charts in 1972 and she became the biggest-selling female singer in the world at the time.became the way we showed the climb?” director Unjoo Moon excitedly asked during a sit-down interview at the Toronto International Film Festival on Thursday before the film's world premiere. The film is still in need of distribution.
Managed by her second husband Jeff Wold -- who started managing Deep Purple when Reddy hadn’t yet recorded her first single -- Reddy would land 15 top 40 singles on the Billboard Hot 100, six of which went top 10 and “I Am Woman” going all the way to No. 1. She officially retired in 2002 but would perform periodically, most recently in Las Vegas in 2015, and also sang “I Am Woman” a cappella at the 2017 Women’s March in Los Angeles.
Our film halfway through hits with this song. But I guess it's because we all know the stories of these people as artists. What we all don’t know, and what's fascinating, is how they got there. Helen's story is extraordinary. She was so bold and to arrive in America with a 3-year-old, $230 and one suitcase and within weeks she was completely broke -- and within five years she was the first Australian to win a Grammy. That journey is so huge and so extraordinary.
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