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Sia Interview

Dan Gennoe, Making Music, 2001

"PEOPLE USED TO SAY I looked like her and I used to be mortified." Sia, the diminutive Australian singer who injected a much need dose of imagination into the Top Ten last year with her Prokofiev sampling debut single 'Taken For Granted', is referring to Barbara Streisand; contemplating the suggestion that her own jazzy slurs have an exaggerated ring of the legendary singer's Nuu Yawwk twang to them.

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