![]() ![]() Her early albums-off-kilter pop with hints of folk, electronica, and jazz-did fine, but it wasn’t until she started writing for other artists that her career took off. But they also get us through.īorn in Adelaide, Australia, in 1975, Furler started out singing in a local acid-jazz band called Crisp before moving to London, joining the trip-hop group Zero 7 while starting a solo career. Pop songs are fantasies, she seemed to say. But the music was real, empathetic, even heroic-anthems of vulnerability and self-empowerment that handled huge feelings with a lightness that made it seem like she was dancing slightly above the ground. Then an idea came along: Why put so much of herself on the line when she could just try writing for someone else? Even after coming back to the stage as a solo artist, Furler maintained a degree of playful detachment: The big wigs, the reluctance to show her face. She’d had some success, but the trade-off-touring, promotion, life without privacy-felt too steep. She was exhausted, numb, self-medicating. Sometime around the end of 2010, Sia Furler hit bottom. ![]()
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