title: Amity Dry
text: # Amity Dry
  
  Amity Renae Dry , born in Adelaide, South Australia is an Australian singer-songwriter and a reality show contestant.
  
  ## Early career
  
  At just five years of age she started studying music and piano and performing on stage. She began writing original songs when she was twelve and was accepted into a performing arts school at sixteen.
  
  ## The Block
  
  Amity got her big break after appearing on the Nine Network reality show The Block alongside her husband Phil Rankine in 2003.
  
  Four couples, including Dry and Rankine, lived in and renovated a run down apartment block. When they had finished, the apartments were auctioned off individually, and the couples got whatever money they made over the reserve price.
  
  Dry and her husband Phil Rankine appeared on the 2013 series of The Block: All Stars and were the winners.
  
  ## Music career
  
  Through the exposure of her talents on the show, Amity gained a record contract and released the album The Lighthouse during the media promotion for the show. It debuted at number eight on the ARIA album charts. The only song released as a CD single was "Start of Something New".
  
  After taking a break from the music scene, she returned in 2005 with an independently released album True to Me.
  
  She has written a musical play entitled "Mother, Wife and the Complicated Life" in which she performs with three other women.
  
  ## Personal life
  
  Amity was married to Phil Rankine and they have two children, born in 2006 and 2010. The couple divorced in 2018.
  
  ## Discography
  
  ### Albums
  
  List of albums, with selected chart positions and certifications :
  
  | Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | Title | Album details | AUS | Certifications |
  | The Lighthouse | Released: July 2003 Label: Universal Music Australia (980 810-4) Formats: CD | 6 | ARIA: Gold |
  | True to Me | Released: 2005 Label: Ranx Records (RXRCD917827) Formats: CD | | |
  
  ### Charting singles
  
  List of singles, with selected chart positions :
  
  | Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | Title | Year | AUS | Album |
  | "Start of Something New" | 2003 | 81 | The Lighthouse |
  