Tiffani Wood

Tiffani Wood born Tiffany Wood was a member of Australian pop group Bardot formed on the 2000 Australian series of Popstars and had their debut single and album debut at number one. They enjoyed a series of hit singles before breaking up in 2002. Since then, she has signed a contract with Warner Brothers with her debut solo single charting in the Australian top 40 and a debut album due later in 2004.

Popstar

Tiffany Wood was born in Newcastle Australia in 1977 and was singing since she was 11. Wood was a member of cover bands playing in pubs around Newcastle. In 2000, she spplied for the first series of Popstars, an Australian reality televisionshow to find five girls to form a girl group similar to the Spice Girls and originally just missed out. However, original Bardot member Chantelle Barrios was kicked out of the group in controversial circumstances and Wood replaced her in the band.

Popstars was one of the most popular programs in Australia in 2000 and with the exposure, Bardot's first single "Poison" debuted at number one and went double platinum. Their first album Bardot debuted at number one in that year. Their second single "These Days" was also a success.

Katie Underwood left Bardot in 2001 to appear in an Australian revival of Hair which unfortunately fell over before the show appeared on stage due to financial problems. Bardot released its second alum "Play it Like That" in 2001 featuring the singles "ASAP" and "I Need Somebody". The band broke up in 2002.

Solo career

Tiffany Wood then signed a solo contract with Warner and commenced writing songs for a solo career as Tiffani Wood. Her first single "What R U Waiting For" was written by Matthew Gerrard who has written hits for Mandy Moore and Delta Goodrem and made a top 40 debut in the Australian singles charts of March 22, 2004. It was one of the most added songs to Australian radio in March 2004. The rest of her debut solo album released later this year will be self-written. She told Undercover Media on March 17, 2004 that songwriting is a more consistent source of income. "With Bardot I wrote a song for the album and got an advance from Warner Chappell, so I had to recoup before I made anything but it is a quicker stream of money because there are more forms of income. It comes from the songwriting part, when you perform the song and also from radio and TV play. It is quite constant". French pop artist Saya has already performed one of her songs.

Discography

 * Bardot (album) (as part of Bardot) (2000)
 * Play it Like That (as part of Bardot) (2001)

Links

 * Tiffani Wood official site
 * All Music Guide Bardot page
 * Undercover news article