( CNN ) -- Australian rocker Chrissy Amphlett , the Divinyls lead singer whose group scored an international hit with the sexually charged `` I Touch Myself '' in the early 1990s , died Sunday after a battle with breast cancer and multiple sclerosis , her husband said . She was 53 . `` Chrissy 's light burns so very brightly , '' her husband , former Divinyls drummer Charley Drayton , said in a statement . `` Hers was a life of passion and creativity ; she always lived it to the fullest . With her force of character and vocal strength , she paved the way for strong , sexy , outspoken women . '' In 1991 , the Divinyls ' `` I Touch Myself '' reached No . 1 in Australia and No . 4 on the United States ' Billboard Hot 100 chart . The group , which formed in Australia in the early 1980s , was inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association 's hall of fame in 2006 . Amphlett , who lived in New York with her husband , announced in 2010 that she had breast cancer , several years after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis . She said in an interview that her family made the diagnoses easier . `` It 's unfair , but life is not fair -- even rock stars get breast cancer , '' she told the Sydney Morning Herald . `` But there have been many girls before me who have dealt with it successfully . It 's easy to feel sorry for me but I feel sorry for people who are suffering it alone . '' People we lost in 2013 : The lives they lived .
Amphlett was the lead singer for the Australian band the Divinyls . The band 's `` I Touch Myself '' reached No . 1 in Australia , No . 4 in United States in 1991 . In a statement released by her family on Wednesday, Amphlett's daughter Samantha said: ''