Tina Arena (born Filippina Lydia Arena on 1 November 1967) Arena is one of Australia's highest selling female artists and the World Music Award for best-selling Australian artist, which she received in both 1996 and 2000. In 2009, Arena was awarded the Knighthood of the Order of National Merit by the President of the French Republic, Nicolas Sarkozy for her contributions to French culture. She is the first Australian to have received that order of state. The original 1977 series made her a household name.
Arena is multilingual and speaks English, Italian and French and can also sing in four languages: English, French, Italian and Spanish.