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Dohnyale Sharon "Deni" Hines (born 4 September 1970) is an Australian singer who has been releasing music since the early 1980s, with chart success in Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Europe. She is the daughter of American-born Australian singer Marcia Hines.
Hines released her first single with the Australian band Rockmelons with a cover version of the Bill Withers 1971 hit "Ain't No Sunshine". She then went on to release solo material, including the top-five single "It's Alright" and the top-20 album Imagination (1996), which sold more than 55,000 copies worldwide. A remix album, which included brand-new tracks, became Remix Your Imagination. Her third studio album was titled Water for Chocolate, which was released on 19 August 2006 and features the singles "Water for Chocolate", "Son of a Preacher Man" and "5 Days of Rain".
In 2007, Hines recorded a successful jazz album with Australian jazz artist James Morrison. The pair toured Australia to sold-out shows. In 2012, she played singer Neri Rogers in "The Green Mill Murder", S1:E3 of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries. On 18 November 2016, her fourth studio album, The Soul Sessions, was released, with the lead single "What About Love" co-written by Hines and Edward Said.
She has also appeared on multiple reality shows such as Celebrity Apprentice, Masked Singer, Dancing with the stars and Im A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here.
In 1992, entrepreneur Harry M. Miller signed Hines for the role of Mary Magdalene in a revival of the stage musical Jesus Christ Superstar. Miller had discovered and signed her mother Marcia twenty years earlier, and the role of Mary Magdalene had also been one of Marcia's early successes. Deni Hines was well received in the role but left the production the following year. In 1992, Hines recorded "Not Enough Time" with INXS, and it peaked at number 28 on the Billboard Hot 100; a year later, she married the band's guitarist and saxophonist Kirk Pengilly.
In order to promote her album internationally, Hines moved to the UK in 1997 and reissued her album under the title Pay Attention and toured with Lighthouse Family and Earth, Wind & Fire. "It's Alright" was released in the United Kingdom in 1997 and was received well, peaking at number 35 on the singles chart. "Chart Log UK – H & Claire – Hysterix". zobbel.de. Retrieved 31 July 2007. The track also managed to peak at number 22 in France. Further hits such as "I Like the Way", "Joy" and "Delicious" followed. In 1998, Hines cracked the U.S. market on the dance charts with "Joy" and "I Like the Way" both peaking in the top 20 of the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play charts. Hines released a remix album titled Remix Your Imagination. This album included the song "Dream Your Dream", which was successful in Japan.
In 2002, Hines released a greatest hits album, A Delicious Collection, based on contractual commitments with her then record company, Festival Mushroom. In 2003, she spent time in France working with hip hop artist I:AM, writing and recording for his album in addition to co-writing a track, "Welcome", on which Beyoncé Knowles sang for I:AM's release.
In 2004 and 2005, Hines spent most of the time overseas with her then-fiancé Ben Steel. Hines was writing for a new album in the US with the likes of the Family Stand and Whole 9 and back in Australia with Jarrad Rogers, Vince Pizzinga and many others. In early 2006, Hines played the part of Reno (a composite character representing a number of Dusty Springfield's lesbian lovers) in the stage musical Dusty – The Original Pop Diva, that premiered in Melbourne before touring Australia until September 2006. Dusty: The Original Pop Diva grossed $20M at the Australian box office.
Hines' single "Water for Chocolate", written by the Family Stand, was released in Australia on 8 July 2006 and just missed the top 100, peaking at number 28 on the Australian Urban Singles Chart. The song was followed up by an album of the same name released on 19 August 2006. Two further singles, "Son of a Preacher Man" and "5 Days of Rain", were released in 2007.
In 2007, she collaborated with trumpeter James Morrison on an album of jazz standards, The Other Woman. Hines and Morrison performed an Australian National Theatre tour to near sell out audiences and received an ARIA nomination for "Best Jazz Album". They also performed at marquee festivals such as the Christchurch Jazz Festival and the Darling Harbour Jazz Festival.
In mid-2008, Hines received a call from Oscar-nominated film director Bruce Beresford and agreed to play a small role in Mao's Last Dancer. The film was released on 1 October 2009.
In 9 October, Hines became the ambassador for the humanitarian charity Oasis Africa Australia, where she visited the foundation's village and school in Kibera, Kenya, in January 2010. While there, Hines commenced recording a world music–style album featuring some of the local musicians and the children's choir from the Oasis Africa School.
July 2010 saw Hines reunite with Tamsin Carroll, from Dusty – The Original Pop Diva, to perform a series of shows called Dusty the Concert; it featured over 20 hits. There were 16 shows.
On 9 July 2011, Hines released a new single, "Finger on the Trigger", a Donna Summer classic. Produced by Rob Taylor and DJ Alex Taylor, its uptempo funky feel failed to get dance floors moving and bombed on the charts.
From October 2011, Hines featured in The Celebrity Apprentice Australia. She was fired after task 3, in which her team raised $47,400 for Oasis Africa Australia, but returned for the final episodes on Team Unity.
Hines played the role of Nerine Rogers in the third episode of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, which aired in March 2012.
On 31 July 2012, Hines became engaged to Daniel Moses, a Sydney-based financier. They were married on 23 December 2012 in Sydney.
In 2022 she was a contestant on Dancing with the Stars Australia where she finished as a finalist.
In 2024, Hines released The Tokyo Sessions, an album recorded over the previous years in Japan.
In 2026 she appeared as a contestant on Im A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here Australia. She quit the show after 10 days.
In December 1993, Hines married INXS musician Kirk Pengilly. The marriage lasted 10 months and they parted ways in early 1995.
Hines married her boyfriend of 18 months, businessman and sometime-musician Daniel Moses, at Sergeant's Mess in Middle Head, overlooking Sydney Harbour National Park, in 2012.
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| Water for Chocolate |
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| Remix Your Imagination |
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| A Delicious Collection / The Definitive Collection |
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| Takin' It to the Streets (with Christine Anu) |
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| 1991 | "Ain't No Sunshine" | 5 | 8 | — | Form 1 Planet | ||||
| 1992 | "That Word (L.O.V.E.)" | 4 | 5 | — | |||||
| "It's Not Over" | 15 | 17 | — | ||||||
| "Not Enough Time" | — | — | 28 | Welcome to Wherever You Are | |||||
| 2003 | "Erotic City" | — | — | — | Single only | ||||
| 2006 | "Stomp!" | 43 | — | — | Discothèque | ||||
| 2019 | "Son of a Preacher Man" | — | — | — | |||||
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! |- | 1993 | "That Word (L.O.V.E.)" | Best Female Artist | |- | rowspan="3"| 1996 | "It's Alright" | Breakthrough Artist – Single | |- | rowspan="2"| Imagination | Breakthrough Artist – Album | |- | Best Female Artist | |- | rowspan="2"| 1997 | rowspan="2"|"I'm Not in Love" | Best Pop Release | |- | Best Female Artist | |- | 2008 | The Other Woman (with James Morrison) | Best Jazz Album | | ARIA Award previous winners. |}
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