I Am Woman is the bio-pic of Australian singer Helen Reddy, most famous for her song “I Am Woman”. A song that has inspired women for over 50 years.
We have been sent over a clip of “Helen Reddy’s first live performance of I Am Woman” from the film. It’s a nice clip from the film that also shows the impact the song made for women around America & around the world.
I’ve also found a clip of the real Helen Reddy singing the same song form 1971 so you can compare Tilda Cobham-Hervey’s performance to the original.
1966. Helen Reddy arrives in New York with her three-year-old daughter, a suitcase and $230 in her pocket. Helen had been told she had won a recording contract, but the record company promptly dashes her hopes by telling her it has enough female stars and suggests she has fun in New York before returning home to Australia.
Helen, without a visa, decides to stay in New York anyway and pursue a singing career, struggling to make ends meet and provide for her daughter. There she befriends legendary rock journalist Lillian Roxon, who becomes her closest confident, and inspires her to write and sing the iconic song “I Am Woman” which becomes the anthem for the second wave feminist movement and galvanises a generation of women to fight for change.
She also meets Jeff Wald, a young aspiring talent manager who becomes her agent and husband. Jeff helps her get to the top, but he also suffers from a drug addiction, which gradually turns their relationship toxic. Caught in the treadmill of fame and dependent on Jeff to manage her professional life, Helen finds the strength to take control of her own career and keep pursuing her dreams.
