Jamie O’Neal (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 Minogue’s 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 “There Is No Arizona,” which reached Number 1 in 2001 and was followed by a second chart-topping hit, “When I Think About Angels”; the project also produced charting singles “Shiver” and “Frantic,” 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 Jones’s Diary soundtrack with her cover of “All by Myself,” and in 2002 she recorded the duet “I’m Not Gonna Do Anything Without You” with Mark Wills. A planned follow-up era at Mercury stalled after “Every Little Thing,” leading to a move to Capitol and the 2005 album Brave, which delivered the singles “Trying to Find Atlantis” and “Somebody’s Hero.” 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 “There Is No Arizona” while rolling out new songs such as “All The Same” and “Slippery Slope” ahead of the album Gypsum, released on January 23, 2026.
