Sia Furler

Sia Furler, known simply as Sia, is an Australian singer, songwriter, voice actress and director. She began her career in the band Crisp before becoming a solo artist after they disbanded in 1997. She moved to London where she became a backing singer for Jamiroquai and then provided vocals for Zero 7.

She made her major breakthrough as a solo artist in 2014 with her single ‘Chandelier’ from the album 1000 Forms of Fear. Between 1997 and 2024, Sia released 10 studio albums and has written and performed songs for many film soundtracks, including Fifty Shades of Grey, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, and Wonder Woman.

Why Sia is vegan

Sia is vegan for the animals and the environment.

In an article for Fortune, Sia explained that she has always been an animal lover and went vegetarian because of her dogs. She realised that farmed animals were no different from her companion animals and wanted to do more to help them – starting with not eating them.¹Furler, S. 2022. Singer-songwriter Sia: I’m a vegetarian, and I believe meat is the future. Fortune. Available: https://fortune.com/2022/02/07/sia-animal-welfare-greenhouse-gases-meat-is-the-future/ [Accessed 23 June 2026].

In 2014, Sia announced via Twitter that she was “fully vegan now” and in 2018, Sia joined Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara as a narrator of the Australian animal rights documentary Dominion.²Smith, R. 2021. Vegan celebrities 2021: 55 stars share why they went vegan. Vegan Food & Living. Available: https://www.veganfoodandliving.com/features/vegan-celebrities/ [Accessed 7 September 2021]. Sia is a proponent of lab-grown meat:

“Imagine, real meat without slaughter. Without antibiotics. Without hormones. Without bulldozing rain forests. Without consuming all our precious land, water, and energy to make the staples that have served as the mainstay of our diets for generations.”³Furler, S. 2022. Singer-songwriter Sia: I’m a vegetarian, and I believe meat is the future. Fortune. Available: https://fortune.com/2022/02/07/sia-animal-welfare-greenhouse-gases-meat-is-the-future/ [Accessed 23 June 2026].