Edith Bliss
Edith Bliss (born Brisbane, Queensland, 1959) is an Australian singer and television presenter.[1]
She moved to Sydney, New South Wales in 1979. There Bliss initially worked as manager of an upmarket shoe store. She reportedly accompanied a friend to an audition for singers in order to provide moral support, and there was also asked to audition. She did, and won a contract with ATV Northern Publishing on Good Friday, 1979. Under the supervision of Chris Gilbey she began recording. Later that year she released her debut single If It's Love You Want on the Grundy Organisation "GO" label. She subsequently recorded two more singles, Heart of Stone and Two Single Beds before releasing the album Sheer Bliss, in 1980.[1]
If It's Love You Want, released in November 1979, was written by Allan Caswell and Brian Caswell.[2]
On the verge of releasing a new single, written by Steve Kilbey of The Church, Bliss opted for a career in television. Two weeks later she had been employed as a reporter on children's series Simon Townsend's Wonder World [1] which began in 1979. In 1984 Bliss and another reporter, Phillip Tanner, reported from Rome for Wonder World.[3]
Bliss later married the one time Wonder World sound mixer, Mark Tanner. They have four children, Eden, Madison, Harrison and Lawson.
In 2006, she appeared (under the married name of Edith Tanner) as a contestant on the final episode of game show Wheel of Fortune, and won.
Bliss appeared on Where Are They Now on the Seven Network, for a Wonder World reunion in 2006.[4]
Edith's song, "If It's Love You Want", was featured in Sony Music Entertainment Australia's new Compilation album, "Australian Pop of the 80s Volume 3: What's My Scene?".[5]
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- ^ a b c Atterton, Margot. (Ed.) The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Australian Showbiz, Sunshine Books, 1984. ISBN 0-86777-057-0 p 86
- ^ Bliss indeed. The Age: 2 November 1979, p.2.
- ^ Watson, Bronwyn. "Young guide" column. The Sydney Morning Herald "The Guide" supplement: 17 September 1984, p.16.
- ^ Michael Idato (17 April 2006). "Hotel booking". The Sydney Morning Herald. http://www.smh.com.au/news/tv--radio/hotel-booking/2006/04/15/1144521541368.html. Retrieved 23 January 2010.
- ^ http://www.play4me.com.au/product/australian_pop_of_the_80s_volume_3_whats_my_scene_8002905_3974.html
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