Delta*~

- I've made this site to try and promote myself here in the states "My first American album, Born To Try is a compilation of my two Australian albums, but it's really neither of them, so the album's named for a song that's very important to me. Born To Try is the first song I really connected with. I wrote it nearly three years ago, but it feels like it's my signature song. It doesn't say I was 'Born To Win' or 'Born To Lose,' it's just 'Born To Give It A Good Shot.'"The DualDisc edition of Born To Try features in-the-studio footage of me and my guitarist, Rich Sanford, performing stripped-down arrangements of Born To Try, Out Of The Blue, and Last Night On Earth (a song from Mistaken Identity that does not otherwise appear on Born To Try), distilling the songs to their pure acoustic essence. The DualDisc also includes my new Lost Without You video and making-of-the-video footage, live performances and behind-the-scenes footage from my recent SRO "The Visualise Tour" and an exclusive interview with me about the songs on the album."I can safely say that I didn't really have a lot of influences.I tried to find my own way as a singer and a writer. It didn't really occur to me to try to follow somebody. It was only when I got my record contract when I was 15 did I start to take note of radio and what was going on with other artists. I was working out what sort of artist I was. When you're 15 or 16 and serious about what you're doing, you've got to make sure you find your own style. I wound up writing Born To Try and then my whole life completely changed.""I've had some pretty crazy times by a young age. The same week I had the ..1 album and ..1 single in Australia, i was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma, forcing me to put my career on hold and focus on my health.By January 2004, with my cancer in remission following months of intensive treatment, I began work on my second Australian album, Mistaken Identity. Released in November 2004, the album debuted at ..1 as did its first single, Out of the Blue.July 2005 found me embarking on "The Visualise Tour," my first-ever series of solo headline concerts in Australia's largest arena venues. A full-on state-of-the-art production, "The Visualise Tour" featured a string section, dancers, and me connecting with my audience with the music they all love. "Being on-stage playing arenas is the most unbelievable feeling in the world," I confesses. "It's so amazing…seeing and hearing everyone singing the words back to you."For me, it all comes back to the songs and I look forward to bringing their positive messages and melodic power to new, and returning, audiences. "All the songs have a different meaning. They've all got a bit of history for me now. I really hope they can create different memories. They're like the soundtrack to my life. Each of them comes from a different time. Born To Try had been written and released years before my diagnosis, but then it became a song that helped me get through those rough times. It was always an important song to me, but now it's even more so."My gratitude, exuberance and love of life comes through in my personality and my music, this is something i try very hard to do. "I'm back at full steam and trying to look after myself and take in all the lessons that I learned,"of my experience with Hodgkin's. "It's important to not put these things off, you should make sure you're in check with your body and listen to it." To help raise awareness and work toward prevention and a cure of Hodgkin's and other diseases, I've teamed up with my doctors to found the Delta Goodrem Leukemia and Lymphoma Research Foundation."Being able to write and express yourself through music is just such a beautiful thing. I'm a lucky girl to be able to do what I love to do.