I Am Woman

song by Reddy and Burton

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"I Am Woman" is a 1971 hit song by Australian-born American singer-songwriter Helen Reddy. Written by Reddy and Ray Burton, the song became an anthem for the women's liberation movement in the early 1970s. It sold over a million copies and earned Reddy a Grammy Award. The song gained wider popularity after being featured on the soundtrack of the 1972 film Stand Up and Be Counted. Reddy's debut album, also titled I Am Woman, was released in 1971. In 2025, the song was added to the National Recording Registry by the U.S. Library of Congress for its cultural, historical, and aesthetic significance.1

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…the end of 1972 “I Am Woman” had gone platinum and reached number one on the charts. The song subsequently brought Reddy a Grammy Award and made her a symbol of the women’s movement. Over the next five years Reddy had many hits, including “Delta Dawn” (1973), “Keep On…
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…the end of 1972 “I Am Woman” had gone platinum and reached number one on the charts. The song subsequently brought Reddy a Grammy Award and made her a symbol of the women’s movement. Over the next five years Reddy had many hits, including “Delta Dawn” (1973), “Keep On…
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