Helen Maxine Reddy (25 October 1941 – 29 September 2020) was an Australian-American artist, entertainer and dissident. Conceived in Melbourne, Victoria, to a Broadway family, Reddy began her vocation as a performer at age four. She sang on radio and TV and won an ability challenge on the TV program, Bandstand, in 1966; her prize was a pass to New York City and a record tryout, which was fruitless. 

She sought after her global singing profession by moving to Chicago and, in this way, Los Angeles, where she made her presentation singles "One Way Ticket" and "I Believe in Music" in 1968 and 1970 individually. The B-side of the last single, "I Don't Know How to Love Him", came to No. 8 on the pop graph of Canadian magazine RPM. She was marked to Capitol Records a year later. 

During the 1970s, Reddy delighted in global achievement, particularly in the United States where she set 15 singles on the main 40 of the Billboard Hot 100. Six made the Top 10 and three came to No. 1, including her particular hit "I Am Woman". She put 25 tunes on the Billboard Adult Contemporary graph; 15 made the Top 10 and eight came to No. 1, six successively. In 1974, at the debut American Music Awards, she won the honor for Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist. On TV, she was the principal Australian to have a one-hour week by week early evening theatrical presentation on an American organization, alongside specials that were found in excess of 40 nations. 

Between the 1980s and 1990s, as her single "I Can't Say Goodbye to You" turned into her last to outline in the US, Reddy acted in musicals and recorded collections, for example, Center Stage before resigning from live execution in 2002. She got back to college in Australia, earned a degree and rehearsed as a clinical trance inducer and powerful orator. In 2011, in the wake of singing "Breezin' Along with the Breeze" with her relative, Toni Lamond, for Lamond's birthday, Reddy chose to re-visitation of live performing. 

Reddy's melody "I Am Woman" assumed a huge function in mainstream society, turning into a song of devotion for second-wave woman's rights. She came to be known as a "women's activist banner young lady" or a "women's activist symbol". In 2011, Billboard named her the No. 28 grown-up contemporary craftsman ever (No. 9 lady). In 2013, the Chicago Tribune named her as the "Sovereign of '70s Pop". 

Reddy passed on 29 September 2020 in Los Angeles, matured 78. She experienced Addison's ailment and dementia in her later years.