![]() In 1978, her co-starring role with John Travolta in Grease catapulted Olivia into super-stardom. ![]() Her countless successes include three more Grammys, numerous Country Music Awards, American Music Awards and Peoples Choice Awards, five 1 hits including Physical, which topped the charts for ten consecutive weeks, and 15 top 10 singles. This proved to be only the beginning of a very exciting career. album debut, "Let Me Be There," produced her first top ten single of the same name, with Olivia being honored by the Academy Of Country Music as Most Promising Female Vocalist and a Grammy Award as Best Country Vocalist. Olivia cut her first single for Decca Records in 1966, a version of Jackie DeShannon's "Till You Say You'll Be Mine." In 1971, she recorded a cover of Bob Dylan's "If Not For You," co-produced by John Farrar, who she continues to collaborate with today. By 1963, Olivia was appearing on local daytime TV shows and weekly pop music programs in Australia. Later that year she won a talent contest on the popular TV show, Sing, Sing, Sing, which earned her a trip to London. By the age of fifteen, she had formed an all-girl group called Sol Four. ![]() Born in Cambridge, England in1948, the youngest child of Professor Brin Newton-John and Irene, daughter of Nobel Prize winning physicist, Max Born, Olivia moved to Melbourne, Australia with her family when she was five. ![]()
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