The Sia Furler effect

Popular Australian singer-songwriter Sia has lent her name to a new music institute at the University of Adelaide. The Sia Furler Institute for Contemporary Music and Media will prepare students for careers in contemporary music, film, and digital media.

Sia, who was born in Adelaide in 1975, is an ARIA and MTV Music Award-winning artist who also received several Grammy nominations in 2015.  Her best-known album is 1000 Forms of Fear (2014).

The new Institute will be based within the university’s Elder Conservatorium of Music, whose director, composer Graeme Koehne, said Sia’s creativity extended beyond music to video and digital media: ‘Sia has become an inspiration to young artists the world over and it’s that talent we aim to foster through our new institute.’