Tina Arena

As of 2004 she is reported to working on an album of new material.
. Arena completed her contract with Sony Music in early 2004, with a "Greatest Hits" album to be released marking the end of her association with them.
. The song was one of the year's longest running hits on the Billboard Magazine Club Charts where it reached number one. Beck is a Scientologist. In 2003 she was recruited by techno DJ Ray Roc to sing on his single "Never (Past Tense)". He has also appeared as a guest on another animated show Space Ghost: Coast to Coast.

Later that year she received a lifetime achievement ARIA Award for her career achievement, with the award also specifically recognising her success in France. In keeping with Beck's sense of humour, there is much self-deprecation ("Odelay is a word! Just look it up in the Becktionary"). Also in 2000, she performed to the largest audience of her career at the Opening Ceremonies of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Beck has done a guest voice on Matt Groening's animated show Futurama, playing himself. In 2000, Arena was invited to perform the role of Esmerelda in the West End production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame in London. Instead of pushing for an early release, a variety of bonus tracks including remixes from Boards of Canada and Dizzee Rascal will be released on March 29th, 2005. Her 1999 album Just Me was a moderate success and included such hit singles as "Soul Mate #9", "Dare You To Be Happy" and "Symphony of Life". Like many commercial artists, Beck's newest album fell victim to an internet leak in mid January 2005.

A repackaged version of the In Deep album including the new French versions, and a cover version of the Edith Piaf song "Les Trois Cloches" was a major hit throughout Europe and reached number 3 in France. The video for the first single, "E-Pro," has been released to the general public on msn.com. During this period her greatest successes were these French recordings and they were major hits in France. The record, Guero, produced by the Dust Brothers and Tony Hoffer, is tentatively slated for an early 2005 release. This song was highly successful in Europe, and Arena embraced European culture, recording several songs in French and relocating temporarily to France. In late 2004, Beck returned to the studio to work on his sixth major-label album. During this time she recorded the theme song for the film The Mask of Zorro, a duet with Marc Anthony titled "I Want To Spend My Lifetime Loving You". Beck has a number of b-sides and soundtrack-only songs as well, including "Midnite Vultures" (curiously, not on the album of the same name), a cover of Korgis' "Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime" which appeared in the 2004 movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and David Bowie's Diamond Dogs from Moulin Rouge!.

In Deep was the highest selling Australian album of the year. The Sea Change tour featured The Flaming Lips as Beck's opening and backing band. Her next album In Deep (1997), produced by Foreigner's Mick Jones contained a cover version of their hit "I Want To Know What Love Is" (with backing vocals by the song's original vocalist Lou Gramm) and another major hit single "Burn". Although some radio singles were released no commercial singles were made available to the public. After more than twenty years she was finally accepted as a credible performer by both the record buying public and the Australian music industry. The album also featured string arrangements by Beck's father David Campbell and a sonically dense mix recalling at times Mutations and elements of Midnite Vultures. The album won Arena five ARIA Awards for "Album of the Year", "Song of the Year" ("Chains"), "Pop Release of the Year" ("Chains") and "Best Female Vocalist", as well as a special award for "Highest Selling Female Artist in Australian History". Sea Change was conceptualized as an album with one unifying theme—the stages following the end of a relationship.

Other hits followed in Australia and Europe, including "Heaven Help My Heart", "Wasn't It Good" and "Sorrento Moon". After Midnite Vultures came Sea Change in 2002, another airy and emotional album with producer Nigel Godrich. Arena's career was said to be a priority of record executive Tommy Mottola who envisioned her achieving the level of success of Céline Dion or Mariah Carey, but the album failed to sell well in the US, and Mottola moved on to other projects. For Beck, it was a return to the high-energy performances that had been his trademark as far back as Lollapalooza—the live stage set including a red bed that descended from the ceiling for the song "Debra" and the touring band was supplemented by a brass section. The song also reached the Top 10 in the United Kingdom and Top 40 in the United States. In 1999, Geffen released the much-anticipated Midnite Vultures, an orgy of sexual and culinary innuendo that was supported by a world tour. It became one of the highest selling albums of the year in Australia and provided her with her first substantial hit single "Chains". A catalogue of the show was published by Plug In Editions/Smart Art Press.

After signing a contract with Sony Music, Arena released the album Don't Ask in 1994. The show toured from the Santa Monica Museum of Art to galleries in New York City and Winnipeg, Canada. Despite the success of the further singles, "The Machine's Breaking Down" and the Diane Warren title track, the album failed to establish her as a major act, and she relocated to the United States. During 1998, Beck's art collaborations with his grandfather Al Hansen were featured in an exhibition entitled Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches and showcased solo and collaborative collage, assemblage, drawing and poetry works. The contrast between her adult image and that of the seven year old child she had been when she first became famous attracted considerable publicity in Australia, but some elements of the media insisted that she was little more than a novelty act. Track 10, "Sing It Again,"was written for Johnny Cash, but Beck never submitted it, considering it "rubbish." Cash would go on to record "Rowboat," a song that originally appeared on Beck's Stereopathetic Soul Manure. Her album Strong as Steel, released in 1990, contained one major hit single, the uptempo dance track, "I Need Your Body", whose accompanying video demonstrated Arena as a sexy and confident adult. Songs on the album consisted of older tracks, some even dating back as far as 1994.

Arena persevered, playing nightclubs in Melbourne and in several stage musicals, before finally being offered a contract. Mutations was a departure from the electronic density of Odelay, and was filled with folk and blues influences. She was invited to support Lionel Richie on his Australian tour, but despite this success and the profile it gave her, record companies were unwilling to offer her a recording contract. Recorded over two weeks, during which Beck recorded one song a day, the sessions produced 14 songs. Like most of the children who left the show, Arena carried with her a stigma that made it difficult to be taken seriously as an adult vocalist, and for a short time she contemplated ending her career, and found employment with an insurance company. Produced by Nigel Godrich of Radiohead fame, it was intended as a stopgap measure before the next album proper. As one of the show's youngest performers, Arena's nine year stint was also one of the show's longest. Odelay was followed in 1998 by Mutations.

The show's policy was to promote talented children, and at the age of sixteen team members would leave, ostensibly to follow an adult career. Within the year, Odelay had received perfect reviews in Rolling Stone and Spin magazines, been listed on countless "Best of" lists, had received double-platinum status, and earned an impressive number of industry awards, including two Grammies. Often billed as "Tiny Tina Arena", she was seen on weekly television singing and dancing the current pop hits. The lead single, "Where It's At," received heavy airplay and its video was in constant rotation on MTV. As a child Arena attracted attention for the power of her voice, which was considered remarkable for such a young child. That one-hit wonder label was put to rest with the release of 1996's Odelay, a collaborative effort with the Dust Brothers, creators of the Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique. Her career began at the age of seven when she was selected as a regular performer for the music television program Young Talent Time. It didn't help that a lot of audiences (especially at Lollapalooza) were only familiar with "Loser"' and would generally ignore his other work.

Tina Arena (born Filippina Lydia Arena on November 1, 1967, in Melbourne, Australia) is a pop singer. Beck took his act on the road with the 1995 Lollapalooza tour. Still, some critics panned him as a one-hit wonder. Greatest Hits 1994-2004 (2004). At the same time, he released One Foot in the Grave on independent K Records and Stereopathetic Soul Manure on Flipside Records. Vous Etes Toujours La (2002). Beck would comment often that like "Loser," the song that inspired it, the "slacker" label was very ironic. If I Was a River (2002). In 1994, Geffen's release of Mellow Gold made Beck a mainstream success—and led to his iconic status as the "slacker" representative of the alternative rock scene.

Just Me (2001). Eventually, he chose Geffen Records, who offered him terms that included allowing for the release of independent albums while under contract. Souvenirs 2000. Their 1993 12" vinyl "Loser," from an initial run of 500 copies, created a sensation on alternative radio that led to a furious bidding war between labels to sign Beck. Tiny Tina and Little John (1998). It was in this atmosphere of heady creativity that the founders of Bong Load Custom Records discovered Beck. In Deep (1997). Some of his earliest and most thought provoking recordings were achieved by working with Tom Grimley at Poop Alley Studios, a part of WIN Records.

Don't Ask (1994). In the spirit of an artist struggling to make a name for himself, his shows were memorable for their mix of humor and eccentricity. Strong as Steel (1990, re-issued in 1996). During this time, Beck sought out (or snuck onto) stages at venues all over LA, from punk clubs to coffee shops. Summer was sufficiently pleased by the result that it was included on her live album. To support himself, he took a variety of low-paying, dead-end jobs, and even lived in a shed, all the while continuing to develop his music. Years after performing Donna Summer's "MacArthur Park" for Young Talent Time as an eleven year old, Arena was approached by Summer to perform a live duet with her of "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)". Beck returned to LA at the turn of the decade, destitute but motivated.

Arena has frequently collaborated with fellow Australian singer/songwriter Rick Price and has co-written songs with him. She provided backing vocals on several of his recordings - he provided backing vocals on several of hers. New York City and the late '80s found himself part of the punk-influenced anti-folk music movement. Arena's duet album with fellow Young Talent Time member John Bowles, titled Tiny Tina and Little Johnny and originally released in the mid 1970s, was reissued on CD in 1998 to capitalise on her success. In Germany, he spent time with his maternal grandfather, fluxus artist Al Hansen. "Heaven Help My Heart" was a hit for Wynonna Judd, "Unsung Hero" for Terri Clark, and Jo Dee Messina's version of "Burn" reached number two on the US Country Chart. After dropping out of high school in the mid-1980s, Beck educated himself and traveled widely. Several of Arena's songs have become country hits in the United States when recorded by other artists. Hopefully compared by critics to the more obscure moments of Bob Dylan and given an enthusiastic seal of approval by Allen Ginsberg, Beck was a link between the folk and beatnik past and the hip-hop present.

In 2003, three former "Young Talent Time" performers were simultaneously in the United States Billboard Magazine Dance Top 10 - Arena with "Never (Past Tense)", Dannii Minogue with "I Begin to Wonder" and Kylie Minogue (whose first television singing performance was on YTT despite never being an official member) with "Slow". Bungle and avant garde composers such as John Zorn who experimented with similar genre raiding, Beck achieved notice with his free-flowing, sometimes absurd lyrical stylings. Arena is credited as being one of only five non French artists to achieve album sales in excess of one million units in France. Beck's music is often considered to be typical of much popular alternative music of the 1990s with its disdain for genre conventions, obtuse and ironic lyrics, and the melding of samples with played instruments. However, what set him apart from rock groups such as Mr. When his parents separated, he stayed with his mother and brother in LA, where he was influenced by that city's diverse musical offerings—everything from hip-hop to Latin music—and his mother's art scene – all of which would later reappear in his recorded and published work. Beck Hansen was born in Los Angeles, California to parents, David Campbell, a musician, and Bibbe Hansen, a visual artist.

Beck Hansen (born Bek David Campbell, July 8, 1970) is an American musician and songwriter. Southlander. Download sample of "Sissyneck" from Odelay.