Jamie OâNeal (born Jamie Murphy on June 3, 1966, in Sydney, Australia) built her career on a trans-Pacific musical upbringing: she performed with her parents and sister in The Murphy Family band as a child, then worked as a backing vocalist in Australia, including a stint on Kylie Minogueâs Enjoy Yourself tour in 1990. After relocating to Nashville, she signed with Mercury Nashville and broke through in 2000 with her debut album Shiver, launched by the single âThere Is No Arizona,â which reached Number 1 in 2001 and was followed by a second chart-topping hit, âWhen I Think About Angelsâ; the project also produced charting singles âShiverâ and âFrantic,â earned RIAA Gold certification, and drove major award recognition, including an Academy of Country Music win for Top New Female Vocalist and multiple Grammy nominations tied to her early hits. In 2001, she also appeared on the Bridget Jonesâs Diary soundtrack with her cover of âAll by Myself,â and in 2002 she recorded the duet âIâm Not Gonna Do Anything Without Youâ with Mark Wills. A planned follow-up era at Mercury stalled after âEvery Little Thing,â leading to a move to Capitol and the 2005 album Brave, which delivered the singles âTrying to Find Atlantisâ and âSomebodyâs Hero.â After later label changes and a period focused on independent work, she launched Momentum Label Group in 2012 and returned with Eternal in 2014, then released the duet-heavy album Sometimes in 2020 (featuring collaborators including Lauren Alaina, Martina McBride, Sara Evans, John Paul White, and her daughter Aliyah Good). She continued with the holiday set Spirit & Joy in the early 2020s and, as an active artist in 2025, revisited her signature catalog with a new recording of âThere Is No Arizonaâ while rolling out new songs such as âAll The Sameâ and âSlippery Slopeâ ahead of the album Gypsum, released on January 23, 2026.
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