So it's no surprise that her latest tour, which she is bringing to Ballarat on Saturday night (September 28), is called the Dreamer Tour.

In six short years, Im has gone from relative obscurity to one of Australia's most loved, respected and bankable pop stars with a number one single and four top 10 albums.

Speaking to The Courier this week, Im said she was excited to bring her hits to Ballarat for the first time.

"We're doing a lot of the regional areas with this tour, some I'm returning to, other's I'm doing for the first time. It's the first time I've been to Ballarat, is it still going to be cold?" she asked.

"I don't get to see a lot of Australia, so I'm really excited to see a lot of the places I haven't been to before.

"We're bringing all the music, all the songs people know, as well as songs from X Factor, my Eurovision song and some new songs as well including my new single Crying Underwater."

VIDEO: Dami Im promotes the Dreamer Tour

Known as one of the great vocalists of Australian music, Im said it was something that didn't come naturally.

"When I was 13, I was very much into K-Pop songs, one day, I thought, somewhat arrogantly I'm sure I can sing just as good as them," she said.

"My dad helped me get a recording software on the computer and I recorded my voice and I sucked, I got the shock of my life.

"I was completely in denial and I kept on doing it again and again, I got really fascinated and obsessed. I would sing and sing in my room, day-in, day-out, even sometimes forgetting to eat, eventually I did improve slowly and by the time I was in my early 20s, I thought maybe I can sing at church."

As she started to improve, the opportunity came up to audition for X Factor, which she did at age 24.

"I was more a pianist and trained to be a concert pianist, started singing, I started to write my own songs in my late teens, really badly, but I thought how great is it that I could make up my own songs.

"Then at uni, my professor told me I was a communicator, I remember that vividly. To me 'that's more than my teacher telling me, maybe it's Gods voice'.

"By X Factor I had already decided that I wanted it to be my career, I thought, maybe I can get a little bit of exposure from this."

VIDEO: Dami Im's new single Crying Underwater

She said at first she was daunted, but was happy to take advice of industry professionals including stylists who saw her as a cross between "Lady Gaga and Bjork"

"I grew up in a smallish community, I was a Korean immigrant near Brisbane," she said

"I hung out with my Korean church, that was my world. Then suddenly after X Factor I was in the main stream community. Everything was different, language, culture, at first I said yes to everything, I didn't know what everything was.

"There was a creative team, they came up with the concept, most contestants were against things that were offered, but for me, I knew I didn't know much about that side of thing so I was open to every suggestion, try it and see if it was good, sometimes it was, other times it was hideous."

VIDEO: Dami Im at the 2016 Eurovision where she finished second

International success quickly followed when she was asked to be Australia's representative at the Eurovision Song Contest, finishing runner-up

"That was a whole other level, just being there amongs this huge culture and history, Eurovision, all the countries getting back to it, just being there was an amazing experience," she said.

"I used to be very against the idea of one day going back, but you see a lot of European acts who come back, it's just a fun thing and I'm now at a point where I'll say, 'never say never'."

But six years on from her X Factor triumph Im has learned to say no.

"I've realised what I loved doing was song writing," she said.

"I learned a lot really quickly and I felt like I was thrown into the deep end, learning and figuring out what to do, how to work my way around the industry, now I'm at a really good place I know what I want to do as an artists, I can navigate and not drift around, I can really make my own decisions."

Dami Im is playing at the Wendouree Centre for Performing Arts on Saturday night. Tickets available from damiim.com/tour/ or wcpa.com.au

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