Torn is often credited to Natalie Imbruglia, who launched her
singing career with this song in 1993. Imbruglia had recently been
on the Australian soap opera "Neighbors" from 1992-1994.
The song was actually written in 1993 by Anne Previn and Scott
Cutler of Ednaswap, In 1994, Lis Sorensen topped the charts in
Denmark with "Braendt", a Danish translation of the piece. Ednaswap
recorded their own version of "Torn" in 1995 and in 1996, Trine
Rein had a runaway hit with it in Norway. It was not until 1997
that Natalie Imbruglia topped the American, Australian, and British
sites with her version.