Amity Renae Dry is an Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n singer/songwriter

Songwriter

A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...

, and a former reality show contestant.

Early career

At just five years of age she started studying music and piano and performing on stage. She began writing original songs when she was twelve and was accepted into a performing arts school at sixteen.

The Block

Amity got her big break after appearing on the Nine Network

Nine Network

The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...

 reality show The Block

The Block (Australian TV series)

The Block is an Australian reality television show broadcast on the Nine Network. The show sees four couples compete against each other to renovate a home and sell it at auction for the highest price....

alongside her husband Phil Rankine in 2003.

Four couples, including Dry and Rankine, lived in and renovated a run down apartment block. When they had finished, the apartments were auctioned off individually, and the couples got whatever money they made over the reserve price.

Music career

Through the exposure of her talents on the show, Amity gained a record contract and released the album The Lighthouse during the media promotion for the show. It debuted at number eight on the ARIA

Australian Recording Industry Association

The Australian Recording Industry Association is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry which was established in 1983 by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers which was formed in 1956...

 album charts. The only song released as a CD single

CD single

A CD single is a music single in the form of a standard size Compact Disc, not to be confused with the 3-inch CD single, which uses a smaller form factor. The format was introduced in the mid-1980s, but did not gain its place in the market until the early 1990s...

 was "Start of Something New".

After taking a break from the music scene, she returned in 2005 with an independently released album True to Me.

Amity gave birth to baby Jamison on 2 April 2006. She gave birth to her second child, Poppy, with husband Phil Rankine on 3 June 2010.

Discography

The Lighthouse Released: 2003 (Australia) Chart positions: #6 Australia ARIA certification: Gold (ARIA Australian Recording Industry Association The Australian Recording Industry Association is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry which was established in 1983 by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers which was formed in 1956... ) Singles: "The Lighthouse" (2003) "Breathe You In" (2003) "Start of Something New" (2003) #81 Australia

True to Me Released: 2005 Singles: "Rollercoaster" (2005) "Home" (2006) "My Love Would Go That Far" (2006)

Other singles

• "The Twelve Days of Christmas
  The Twelve Days of Christmas (song)
  "The Twelve Days of Christmas" is an English Christmas carol that enumerates a series of increasingly grand gifts given on each of the twelve days of Christmas. Although first published in England in 1780, textual evidence may indicate the song is French in origin...
  
   (With the Dreamtime Christmas All-Stars
  Dreamtime Christmas All-Stars
  Dreamtime Christmas All-Stars are an all-star collaboration of Australian celebrities. They released one single, "Twelve Days Of Christmas", which reached No...
  
  ) (2004) - #26 Australia
• "Rise" (2007)

External links

• Amity Dry Official Site