Tina Arena is an Australian singer-songwriter, musician, musical theatre actress and record producer. Tina Arena appeared as a child performer on the national television talent show Young Talent Time in 1976, at age 8 [1] [2] before branching out into a successful solo career.
The ALMA Awards, (formerly known as Latin Oscars Award), is an award highlighting the best American Latino contributions to music, television, and film. The awards promote fair and accurate portrayals of Latinos. In Spanish and Portuguese the word alma means "soul."
Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result | Ref. |
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1999 | "I Want to Spend My Life Time Loving You" (with Marc Antony) | Outstanding Performance of a Song for a Feature Film | Won | [3] |
Outstanding Music Video | Nominated |
The APRA Awards are held in Australia and New Zealand by the Australasian Performing Right Association to recognise songwriting skills, sales and airplay performance by its members annually.
Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result | Ref. |
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1996 | "Wasn't It Good" (Tina Arena, Robert Parde, Heather Field) | Song of the Year | Won | [4] [5] |
Most Performed Song of the Year | Nominated | |||
1999 | "Now I Can Dance" (Tina Arena, David Tyson) | Most Performed Song of the Year | Nominated | [6] |
The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music. They commenced in 1987.
Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result | Ref. |
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1991 | Doug Brady for "Strong as Steel", "I Need Your Body", "The Machine's Breaking Down" | Engineer of the Year | Nominated | [7] |
1995 | Don't Ask | Best Female Artist | Won | [8] |
Album of the Year | Won | |||
Highest Selling Album | Nominated | |||
"Chains" | Best Pop Release | Won | ||
Song of the Year | Won | |||
Single of the Year | Nominated | |||
1996 | Don't Ask | Highest Selling Album | Won | [9] |
"Wasn't It Good" | Single of the Year | Nominated | ||
Best Female Artist | Nominated | |||
Best Pop Release | Nominated | |||
Song of the Year | Nominated | |||
1998 | In Deep | Highest Selling Album | Nominated | [10] |
Best Female Artist | Nominated | |||
"Burn" | Highest Selling Single | Nominated | ||
2000 | Tina Arena | Outstanding Achievement Award | awarded | [11] |
2008 | Songs of Love and Lose | Highest Selling Album | Nominated | [12] |
2013 | Symphony of Life | Best Original Soundtrack, Cast or Show Album | Nominated | [13] |
2014 | Reset | Best Adult Contemporary Album | Nominated | [14] |
2015 | Tina Arena | ARIA Hall of Fame | inducted | [15] [16] |
2016 | Eleven | Best Adult Contemporary Album | Nominated | [17] |
2017 | Tim White for Client Liaison (featuring Tina Arena) - "A Foreign Affair" | Best Video | Nominated | [18] [19] |
2023 | Love Saves | Best Adult Contemporary Album | Nominated | [20] |
The BRIT Awards (often simply called the BRITs) are the British Phonographic Industry's annual popular music awards.
Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1996 | Tina Arena | International Breakthrough Act | Nominated | [21] |
The Helpmann Awards is an awards show, celebrating live entertainment and performing arts in Australia, presented by industry group Live Live Performance Australia (LPA) since 2001. [22]
Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result | Ref. |
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2008 | Tina Arena | Best Performance in an Australian Contemporary Concert | Nominated | [23] |
2015 | Reset Tour | Best Australian Contemporary Concert | Nominated | [24] |
2019 | Tina Arena in Evita | Best Female Actor in a Musical | Nominated | [25] |
The J Awards are an annual series of Australian music awards that were established by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's youth-focused radio station Triple J. They commenced in 2005.
Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result | Ref. |
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2017 | "A Foreign Affair" (Client Liaison with Tina Arena) | Australian Video of the Year | Won | [26] |
La Chanson de l'année (translated as "Song of the Year" in English) is a ceremony of awards which takes place every year in France.
Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2006 | "Aimer Jusqu'a L'impossible" | Song of the Year | Won |
The Australian Entertainment Mo Awards (commonly known informally as the Mo Awards), were annual Australian entertainment industry awards. They recognise achievements in live entertainment in Australia from 1975 to 2016. Tina Arena won two awards in that time.
Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result (wins only) | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1995 | Tina Arena | Rock Performer of the Year | Won | [27] |
Tina Arena | Australian Performer of the Year | Won |
The NRJ Music Award (commonly abbreviated as an NMA) is an award presented by the French radio station NRJ to honor the best in the French and worldwide music industry. [28] They commenced in 2000.
Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result (wins only) | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2000 | Tina Arena | International Breakthrough of the Year | Won |
The Order of Australia is an honour that recognises Australian citizens and other persons for outstanding achievement and service. [29]
Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result | Ref. |
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2016 | Tina Arena | Member of the Order of Australia (AM) | awarded | [30] |
The Ordre national du Mérite is a French order of merit with membership awarded by the President of the French Republic, founded on 3 December 1963 by President Charles de Gaulle.
Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result | Ref. |
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2009 | Tina Arena | Knight | awarded |
The People's Choice Awards (Australia) was an Australian version of the American awards show of the same name. It ran in 1998 and 1999. [31] The awards recognised works of popular culture and people active in it. Winners were chosen by popular vote.
Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result | Ref. |
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1998 | Tina Arena | Favourite Australian Singer (female) | Nominated | [32] |
The Rolling Stone Australia Awards are awarded annually in January or February by the Australian edition of Rolling Stone magazine for outstanding contributions to popular culture in the previous year. [33]
Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result | Ref. |
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2023 | Tina Arena | Rolling Stone Icon Award | awarded | [34] |
Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result | Ref. |
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2019 | Tina Arena | Excellence in Community Award | awarded | [35] [36] |
The World Music Awards was an international award show founded in 1989 under the patronage of Albert II, Prince of Monaco and co-founder/executive producer John Martinotti. The event is based in Monte Carlo. It ran from 1989 to 2008, 2010 and 2014.
Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result (wins only) | Ref. |
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1996 | Tina Arena | World's Best Selling Australian Artist | Won | [37] |
2000 | Tina Arena | World's Best Selling Australian Artist | Won |
The Waifs are an Australian folk rock band formed in 1992 by sisters Vikki Thorn and Donna Simpson as well as Josh Cunningham. Their tour and recording band includes Ben Franz (bass), David Ross Macdonald (drums) and Tony Bourke.
Lee Kernaghan OAM is an Australian country music singer, songwriter and guitarist. Kernaghan has won four ARIA Awards and three APRA Awards, and has sold over two million albums, and as of 2021, has won 38 Golden Guitars at the Country Music Awards of Australia.
Richard John Mills is an Australian conductor and composer. He is currently the artistic director of Victorian Opera, and formerly artistic director of the West Australian Opera and artistic consultant with Orchestra Victoria. He was commissioned by the Victoria State Opera to write his opera Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (1996) and by Opera Australia to write the opera Batavia (2001).
Birds of Tokyo are an Australian alternative rock band from Perth, Western Australia. Their debut album, Day One, gained them domestic success, reaching number three on the AIR Independent Album charts and spending a total of 36 consecutive weeks in the top ten.
Nigel Westlake is an Australian composer, musician and conductor. As a composer for the screen, his film credits include the feature films Ali's Wedding, Paper Planes, Miss Potter, Babe, Babe: Pig in the City, Children of the Revolution and The Nugget. He also composed the theme for SBS World News.
Harley Edward Streten, known professionally as Flume, is an Australian musician, DJ, and record producer. He is regarded as a pioneer of future bass who helped popularise the genre. His self-titled debut studio album, Flume, was released in 2012 to positive reviews, topping the ARIA Albums Chart and reaching double-platinum accreditation in Australia.
Ilan Kidron, also known as iKid, is a Sydney-based singer songwriter with over one billion combined streams, best known as the lead singer for Australia's multi-platinum selling dance music act The Potbelleez. As a writer he is a double ASCAP, double APRA award winner and has two Billboard Latin #1s.. Kidron co-wrote The Potbelleez breakthrough single, "Don't Hold Back", which peaked at No. 5 on the ARIA Singles Chart and was certified 3× Platinum by ARIA. Kidron has worked with artists such as Kygo, Rita Ora, Ricky Martin, Chance The Rapper, Hayden James, Chris Brown, Tommy Trash, B.o.B, Sesame Street Paul Mac and Sam La More and publishing/production companies Universal Music Publishing and Norway's Dsign Music.
"Wasn't It Good" is a song by Australian singer-songwriter Tina Arena from her third studio album, Don't Ask (1994). Arena co-wrote the song along with Heather Field and Robert Parde, and it was produced by David Tyson. The song peaked at number 11 in Australia and received four nominations at the ARIA Awards in 1996. Upon release as a single, the title was rendered with an ellipsis.
The Preatures were an Australian indie rock band from Sydney, New South Wales, who formed in 2010. The band consisted of lead vocalist and keyboardist Isabella "Izzi" Manfredi, guitarist and vocalist Jack Moffitt, bassist Thomas Champion, and drummer Luke Davison. Vocalist and guitarist Gideon Bensen was a member of the band until 2016. In 2013, the Preatures won the Vanda & Young Global Songwriting Competition with their song "Is This How You Feel?" They disbanded in 2021, following the launch of Manfredi's solo career.
The Australasian Performing Right Association Awards of 2013 are a series of related awards which include the APRA Music Awards, Art Music Awards, and Screen Music Awards. The APRA Music Awards of 2013 was the 31st annual ceremony by the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) and the Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS) to award outstanding achievements in contemporary songwriting, composing and publishing. The ceremony was held on 17 June 2013 at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre.
Isabella Rubi "Izzi" Manfredi is an Australian pop rock singer, songwriter and activist from Sydney, New South Wales. Manfredi is best known as the former lead vocalist of indie rock band the Preatures. Her debut single, "Jealousy", was released on 26 May 2021, and debut album "izzi" released in 2022.