(partially due to the lack of a CD single being released in the States), it topped the Billboard Airplay chart and stayed on that chart for weeks. The song soon turned into an international sensation, reaching the Top Ten throughout Europe and Australia although it only reached 42 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S. The label released "Torn" in November 1997 and it became an immediate hit in the U.K., peaking at two and selling over a million copies.
After recording a four-song demo at the behest of her manager that included an early version of "Torn," RCA/BMG signed Imbruglia in 1996. She landed her starring role on Neighbours in 1992 and she stayed with the show until 1994, after which she relocated to London with the intention of pursuing a singing career. When she returned to music with 2015's Male, a collection of covers of songs by male singer/songwriters, and 2021's Firebird, her first collection of original material in over a decade, her commitment to making creative yet broadly appealing pop was renewed.īorn in Sydney, Australia on February 4, 1975, Natalie Imbruglia first studied dance as a teenager, but she soon turned toward acting, appearing in commercials for Coca-Cola and Twisties before she turned 16. She also pursued work in film and on television, including appearing as a judge for two seasons on the Australian version of The X Factor. Sometimes she favored an edgier approach, as on 2001's White Lilies Island, and sometimes a more straightforward one, as on 2005's Counting Down the Days, but she continued to have hits into the mid-2000s in Europe and her native Australia. Her 1997 cover of the Ednaswap song - as well as that year's debut album, the equally successful Left of the Middle - had a sensibility that was somewhat left of center, but its pretty execution resonated with the mainstream. A singer and actor with a crystalline voice and empathic persona, Natalie Imbruglia became an international star with her smash hit "Torn'' and helped set the tone for adult alternative rock for years to come.
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