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DiVinyls’ Chrissy Amphlett, Dies at 53.

By on April 22, 2013

SYDNEY — Chrissy Amphlett, the raunchy lead singer of the Australian rock band Divinyls whose hit “I Touch Myself” brought her international fame in the early 1990s, died at her home in New York City on Sunday. She was 53 years old.

Ms. Amphlett wished for her biggest hit to be a reminder to women to get annual breast exams.

“Christine Joy Amphlett succumbed to the effects of breast cancer and multiple sclerosis, diseases she vigorously fought with exceptional bravery and dignity,” her musician husband Charley Drayton said in a statement.

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