She burst onto the scene with her ‘funny’ voice as she has previously described it, in 1999, and shot to fame with her monster single, I Try, released her multi-platinum debut album – On How Life Is. She broke the pop mould at the time with tales of heartbreak and woe after her marriage broke down to mortgage broker Tracy Hinds – the father of her three children. ("I try to say goodbye and I choke / Try to walk away and I stumble / Though I try to hide it, it's clear / My world crumbles when you are not here" – are just some of the words from I Try).