Vocalist Tina Arena is a guest on the ABC’s Talking Heads this month.

Arena, chatting to host Peter Thompson will discuss her early years, including growing up on Young Talent Time, the ‘post-YTT‘ years in the wilderness. The music industry wouldn’t touch her. There were jingles, pub gigs and a video clip focusing on her cleavage. Heading for Los Angeles, Tina says her song writing became a form of therapy. Her return to form arrived in the form of the “Don’t Ask” album followed by a family life based in Paris.

We will even meet her three-year-old son Gabriel, whom she is determined to protect from a music industry which she describes as ‘toxic’.

Since the exit by Enough Rope, Talking Heads is now one of television’s few intimate conversation pieces.

Arena (birth name Pina Arena) appears 6:30pm Monday February 16 on ABC1 and in repeat on ABC2 Tuesday, February 17 at 5:05pm.