Jasmine Rae

Jasmine Rae
Birth name	Jasmine Rae
Origin	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Genres	Country, country pop
Occupations	Singer-songwriter
Instruments	Vocals
Years active	2007–present
Labels	Universal Australia
Associated acts	Brooks & Dunn
Website	Official website

Jasmine Rae is a classically trained Australian Country singer and songwriter who is best known for her song "Country Singer" and for winning the Telstra Road to Tamworth in 2008.

Biography

Early life

Rae, born Jasmine Eldridge, has been singing and songwriting since she was seven years old when she would sell her poems at independent fairy stalls.^[1] She performed her first original song at eight and then started singing lessons at sixteen. When she was fifteen she performed at International Women's Day. In 2004 at 16 years of age she was invited to perform with The Moreland City Band, in 2005 they made a film clip for their version of "Killing Me Softly" in which Jasmine provided lead vocals.

n 2005 Rae left high school and decided to learn more about making music, enrolling at Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE, where she studied and completed her Advanced Diploma in Music. At NMIT she met a wide range of Melbourne's musicians and became fully focused on her career as a vocalist, writer and performer.

Rae had a passion for country music since 1997 when her family got subscription television and she watched CMC^[2] the country music channel for Australia, in 2007 she appeared with Jazz Lasso an alternate-country band in the Battle of the Bands with her older brother who plays bass for the band. Some of the songs she wrote for them later appeared on her debut album Look It Up.

2008: Telstra Road to Tamworth and Look It Up

In 2008 Rae auditioned for the Telstra Road to Tamworth she was already familiar with the competition from watching CMC however she had never auditioned before she won the Yarra Valley heat of the competition and eventually went on to win the entire event, winning the event gave her a record contract with ABC Music and allowed her to perform at the 2008 CMA music festival in Nashville.

Since then she has recorded her debut album Look It Up. The title track, "Look It Up", (#1 Austrailian charts) was later covered by American country artist Ashton Shepherd. Shepherd's version was released as a single in January 2011, and has since become a Top 20 hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.

Discography

Albums

• Look It Up (6 September 2008)
• Look It Up (Deluxe Edition CD/DVD) (2010)
• Listen Here (4 March 2011) #35 AUS^[3]

Singles

• "Country Singer" (2008)
• "Look It Up" (2008)
• "Pink Guitar" (2008)
• "Hunky Country Boys" (2010)

Music videos

• "Country Singers" (2008)
• "Look It Up" (2008)
• "Pink Guitar" (2008)
• "Can't a Girl Change Her Mind" (2008)
• "Hunky Country Boys" (2010)
• "I Faked It" (2011)

References

1. ^ http://www.jasminerae.com.au/biography.cfm
2. ^ http://www.beinvolved.telstra.com/countrymusic/heatWinnerProfile.aspx?id=20
3. ^ "Top 50 Albums Chart - Australian Recording Industry Association". ARIA. http://www.ariacharts.com.au/pages/charts_display_album.asp?chart=1G50. Retrieved 13 March 2011. 

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