Collette Roberts, who performed under the stage name

Stage name

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 Collette, is a New Zealand-born, Australian model turned disco/pop

Pop music

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 star in Sydney

Sydney

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 during the late 1980s and early 1990s. She had a gold-selling top five single on the Australian Recording Industry Association

Australian Recording Industry Association

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 (ARIA) and the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand

Recording Industry Association of New Zealand

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 (RIANZ) in May 1989 with "Ring My Bell

Ring My Bell

"Ring My Bell" is a 1979 disco song by Anita Ward. It was originally written for Stacy Lattisaw, but when she signed with a different label, Ward was asked to sing it instead and it became her only major hit. The song hit number one on the disco charts. "Ring My Bell" went to number one on both...

", an Anita Ward

Anita Ward

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 cover. Sometimes considered a one hit wonder, Collette had two other top 40 hits, "All I Wanna Do Is Dance" in August and "That's What I Like About You" in December.

Biography

Early in her career, Collette performed in bright fluorescent lycra clothing, especially bike shorts, bra

Brassiere

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s, and braces. In 1990 she appeared with a new image of short hair and black clothing in an attempt to cast aside the bike shorts image and for her music to be taken more seriously. Collette appeared briefly as 'Ysabel' on Home and Away

Home and Away

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in early 1991. After her second album, Attitude (1991) and its singles yielded little commercial success, she retired from the music industry and pursued a career as a stylist and make-up artist. She appeared on Channel 7's Where Are They Now?

Where Are They Now?

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in 2006, revealing that she does some volunteer work at Sydney

Sydney

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's Taronga Zoo

Taronga Zoo

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.

Singles

• "Ring My Bell
  Ring My Bell
  "Ring My Bell" is a 1979 disco song by Anita Ward. It was originally written for Stacy Lattisaw, but when she signed with a different label, Ward was asked to sing it instead and it became her only major hit. The song hit number one on the disco charts. "Ring My Bell" went to number one on both...
  
  " (1989) AUS
  ARIA Charts
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   #5, NZ #4, UK #93
• "All I Wanna Do Is Dance" (1989) AUS #12, NZ #21
• "That's What I Like About You" (1989) AUS #31
• "Who Do You Think You Are?" (1990) AUS #56
• "Upside Down" (1990) AUS #91
• "This Will Be (Everlasting Love)" (1991)
• "You Can Run" - with The Nation (1995)

Albums

• Raze the Roof (1989) AUS #48,
• Attitude (1991)
• The Very Best of Collette and Sharon O'Neill (J&B Records, 1991)
• Collette E.P. – (Sony Music, 2001)

External links

• Collette at MySpace
  MySpace
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