Olivia Newton

She was the rare performer whose career flourished through different phases, and who found success exploring many facets of her talent. Born in Cambridge in ...

She has also been a continuing part of the cultural conversation through appearances on pop culture staples such as Drag Race. Her journey with the disease inspired her to take up advocacy and fundraising work in this area. Country/pop crossover songs such as Let Me Be There were huge hits, and in 1972 she won a Grammy for Best Country Female – the first of four Grammys she would win across her career. Grease was the peak of her movie career. In the 1960s, Australian musical acts saw moving to the UK as a vital part of their career progression. This led to new opportunities for Newton-John as a solo artist.

Kareena Kapoor, posting a still of Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta from Grease, wrote: "Goodbye ONJ. Thank you for the songs." Oprah Winfrey, singers ...

Her healing inspiration and pioneering experience with plant medicine continues with the Olivia Newton-John Foundation Fund, dedicated to researching plant medicine and cancer." Olivia has been a symbol of triumphs and hope for over 30 years sharing her journey with breast cancer. Not only was she one of the most talented people I've known ... She was one of the most open hearted, generous and funny. (Just like this picture ). She was, and always will be, an inspiration to me in so many, many ways. Singer Kylie Minogue shared a precious throwback picture and she wrote: "Since I was ten years old, I have loved and looked up to Olivia Newton John. And, I always will. "Rest in peace Olivia Newton-John. Your legacy will shine on," wrote Priyanka Chopra on her Instagram story.

Actors Priyanka Chopra, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Malaika Arora and many others penned heartfelt note for late singer-actor Olivia Newton-John. | Bollywood.

Malaika also shared a news article about Olivia's death and she also added a broken heart emoji and a crying emoji. Kareena Kapoor shared an old picture of Olivia and wrote, “Goodbye ONJ. Thank you for the songs.” Priyanka Chopra also shared her photo and wrote, “Rest in peace Olivia Newton-John. Your legacy will always shine.” Actor Tara Sutaria shared Olivia's recent picture in which she was seen wearing a white outfit and wrote, “Heart broken. Actor Athiya Shetty shared a monochrome photo of Olivia and added a broken heart emoji to it.

Olivia Newton-John passed away in South California. Read about her journey as a singer and actor.

In 1974, she earned the title of the Country Music Association Female Vocalist for Let Me Be There. She was also awarded a Grammy for it. Later, her solo Banks of the Ohio ranked among the top 10 hits in Australia and the UK. Record Mirror, a British Magazine voted her the Best British Female Vocalist for two consecutive years. It symbolised the steps a patient battling cancer must take on the road to recovery. Born in 1948 in the UK, Newton-John was among the youngest of her siblings. She even delivered five back-to-back singles that ranked on the Billboard Hot 100. The singer started working when she was 14.

The fast-stepping Travolta-Newton-John duet, You're the One That I Want, was one of the era's biggest songs and has sold more than 15 million copies.

I worried that at 29 I was too old to play a high school girl, Newton-John, who insisted on taking a screen test before accepting the part, told The Telegraph in 2017. She had a few hits after 'Physical', but her career declined and Newton-John became more likely to make news because of her private life. When Newton-John beat out Dolly Parton and Loretta Lynn for the Country Music Association's top artist of 1973, Tammy Wynette helped founded the Association of Country Entertainers, a club designed to exclude Newton-John and other crossover performers. The blonde, ever-smiling Newton-John initially favored mild pop-country songs such as 'Please Mr. Please' and 'Have You Never Been Mellow' and soft-breathing ballads like 'I Honestly Love You', which in 1975 won Grammys for best female pop vocal and record of the year. Yours from the moment I saw you and forever! We will see you down the road and we will all be together again.

For Generation X, Olivia Newton-John's turn in "Grease" came just as they started having questions about everything sex. Tell us more, tell us more.

You can hear “Physical” a hundred times, maybe a thousand, before you really hear what it’s about, and it’s not exercise. Newton-John offered protection in the form of supernatural, lushly overproduced pop: “Come take my hand,” she sings in the hit song “Magic.” “You should know me — I’ve always been in your mind.” That was “Grease” when we first met it, and there was Newton-John in the middle of it, perhaps reckoning with this new grip she had on the preteen psyche, or perhaps not. It didn’t matter that Newton-John was pushing 30 at the time; everyone in “Grease” was far too old to be playing a high school student, and what exactly was “Grease” supposed to be anyhow, besides an underwhelming act of musical theater? Name one girl at the slumber party who didn’t own the “Grease” soundtrack. “Grease” was all those things and more, I suppose, depending on the viewer at the time.

Olivia Newton-John was one of the biggest pop stars in the 1970s and early 1980s. In the movie musical Grease, she starred as good girl Sandy Olson, ...

After other hits and other movies, she dropped out of the spotlight to raise her daughter and to devote herself to promoting environmentalism and breast cancer awareness after she was diagnosed with the disease. NEWTON-JOHN: (Singing) Let's get physical, physical. Let's get into physical. DEL BARCO: For "Let Me Be There," she won her first Grammy Award in 1973. OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN AND JOHN TRAVOLTA: (As Sandy Olsson and Danny Zuko, singing) You're the one that I want. NPR's Mandalit del Barco looks back at the life and career of the Australian singer, who is known for her sweet voice and her movie roles, especially in "Grease."

From Sandy in Grease to Let's Get Physical, Olivia Newton-John gave us some of the most memorable makeovers.

Her country-pop image was shattered with Grease, especially with the transformation of “good Sandy” into “bad Sandy” in the film’s finale. Let’s Get Physical remains her all-time biggest hit and the No.1 hit of Billboard’s 1980s chart. Singer Rod Stewart posted on Instagram, with a picture of “bad Sandy”: “Her spandex trousers in Grease were my inspiration for my ‘Da ya think I’m sexy’ era.” Newton-John’s black suit, which could contest with Marilyn Monroe’s sheer dress for the tightest fit, became a fashion craze. You’re the One That I Want, Hopelessly Devoted to You and Summer Nights were steady on pop charts across the world. We will see you down the road and we will all be together again. Since her death, several fans and peers invoked her most famous role and posted on social media, mourning the passing of “Our Sandy”.

John Travolta, Kylie Minogue and Australian prime minister mourn the passing of the actor, singer and philanthropist who died aged 73.

"Since I was 10 years old, I have loved and looked up to Olivia Newton John. And, I always will," she wrote. In total, her career spanned more than five decades, although she became devoted to charities after being diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992. "She was, and always will be, an inspiration to me in so many, many ways. They also recorded a Christmas album in 2012. Yours from the first moment I saw you and forever! She still insisted on taking a screen test before accepting the role.

Olivia Newton-John was one of the biggest pop stars in the 1970s and early 1980s. In the movie musical Grease, she starred as good girl Sandy Olson, ...

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Dame Olivia Newton-John shared one final picture with her husband John Easterling just five days before she lost a battle with cancer.

was born on September 26, 1948, in Cambridge, United Kingdom. Her family moved to Melbourne, Australia, when she was six years old. Newton-John's music career ...

“I decided on my direction of therapies after consultation with my doctors and natural therapists and the medical team at my Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness and Research Centre in Melbourne, Australia,” she said. In an interview with The Guardian in 2020, Newton-John revealed that she had to learn how to walk again in 2018 after her cancer had spread so much that she had fractured the base of her spine. It helps with anxiety, it helps with sleep, it helps with pain,” she said. The back pain that initially caused her to postpone the first half of her concert tour, has turned out to be breast cancer that has metastasized to the sacrum,” read a statement on Newton-John’s Facebook at the time. In May 2017, when she was 68 years old, Newton-John announced that her breast cancer had spread after doctors discovered that the cancer had metastasized to the sacrum, a bone at the base of her spine. Newton-John’s announcement came less than a day after she underwent a partial mastectomy of her right breast at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. “She’s doing just fine,” her representative, Sylvi Brown, said at the time.Newton-John declined to talk to reporters as she entered the hospital. “After a 30-year cancer journey, she lost her battle to metastatic breast cancer,” the insider said. Newton-John’s Grease co-star, Didi Conn, also told Good Morning America at the time that her late cast mate “wasn’t walking anymore and that she had full-time care” before her death. What convinced Kleiser was a conversation with Travolta who convinced him that Newton-John was the perfect Sandy. “She had a brilliant voice, and I didn’t think there could be any more correct person for Sandy in the universe,” Travolta said. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that any donations be made in her memory to the @onjfoundation.” Newton-John’s niece, Tottie Goldsmith, told A Current Affair at the time that her aunt’s death wasn’t a “shock.” “It’s not a shock — we’ve known how sick she’s been, especially in the last five days,” she said. “And I did not want to mess it up by doing another movie that wasn’t good.” Director Randal Kleiser also wasn’t sure Newton-John could play Sandy because of the reputation she had from her music career.

The singer and actress, who died on Monday at seventy-three, was a good girl at heart, even after her role in “Grease” gave her a taste of the glory in ...

At a dinner party, she was seated next to Allan Carr, the producer of “Grease,” who insisted that she could pull off playing a teen-ager even though she was pushing thirty. The song, a croony, honeyed ballad, was considered country music at the time, and Newton-John had won a Grammy in the best-country-vocal category the year before, for her song “Let Me Be There,” though she was regularly lambasted in the press for lacking a Southern twang or deep-seated American roots. When Newton-John was five, the family moved to Melbourne, Australia, where, as a teen-ager, she won a local talent competition that brought her back to London. She stayed there through her early twenties, cutting demos and performing in European clubs with her friend Pat Carroll as the duo called Pat and Olivia. Newton-John made her first solo record, “If Not for You,” in 1971, but it was her 1974 single “I Honestly Love You” that made her an international name. She never struck back in the press, and maintained that she was simply making the music she loved, alongside her longtime producer and collaborator John Farrar. It was Farrar, she later said, who helped her find her delicate, zephyrean singing tone. At nine years old, her mother gave her one to smoke, and the experience was so unpleasant that it put her off of the urge entirely. (The title of her memoir comes not from Journey’s 1981 hit “Don’t Stop Believin’ ” but from her own studio album of the same name, from 1976.) Yet she was something of an aesthetic risktaker in her most popular films, playing not only “Grease” ’s cigarette-crushing siren but also the roller-skating Greek muse Terpsichore in the 1980 disco epic “Xanadu,” a cult classic that has been maligned and reclaimed so many times that it has more or less passed into legend.

In 1992, after a breast cancer diagnosis, her music took a more spiritual turn and she became an activist for cancer awareness, founding the Olivia ...

Hers was a life and career of many acts, but for her legions of fans, she will be Sandy forever. In 1992, after a breast cancer diagnosis, her music took a more spiritual turn and she became an activist for cancer awareness, founding the Olivia Newton-John Foundation to fund research. She won a country Grammy in 1974.