19 Mar 2010
The Palms @ Crown Casino, Melbourne VIC

w/ Lee Kernaghan www.premier.ticketek.com.au

20 Mar 2010
The Palms @ Crown Casino, Melbourne VIC

w/ Lee Kernaghan http://premier.ticketek.com.au

17 Apr 2010
Rock the Mount @ Melrose Showground, Melrose, South Australia

w/ Lee Kernaghan

 

She’s quirky, she’s funny, she’s fresh and, even though she’s small in stature, Melbourne-based singer/songwriter, Jasmine Rae has a powerful, professionally-trained voice that is hugely impressive.

 

She has been a performer and writer since she was seven years old, when her poetry was sold at an independent fairy stall. She performed her first original song at eight years old and began vocal training at thirteen. When she was fifteen, Jasmine had the honour of performing at International Womens’ Day.

 

In 2004, at sixteen, she was invited to perform with Melbourne’s prestigious, brass band, The Moreland City Band. Jasmine took up the opportunity to sing live with “real musicians” and became addicted to the rush of live performance.

 

In 2005, the band made a video clip of their version of the hit track, ‘Killing Me Softly’, featuring Jasmine’s wonderful vocals, and also performed live-to-air on ABC Radio nationally.

 

It was the same year Jasmine graduated from High School and decided to learn more about making music. At NMIT, where she studied and completed her Advanced Diploma in Music, Jasmine mixed with more of Melbourne’s finest musicians and now fully focuses on her career as a vocalist, writer and performer.

 

Jasmine became the lead singer of alternate-country band, Jazz Lasso, in 2007, competing in the Battle Of The Bands Grand Final at Melbourne’s Crown Casino. The diversity of the band members’ various backgrounds from Rock, Reggae, Jazz and Country, helped create a raw and unique style of music for Jasmine and, it was during that time, she wrote a couple of songs which will appear on her debut album.

 

One of those songs is her debut single, ‘Country Singer’ which she performed during her winning Telstra Road to Tamworth performance in January 2008.

 

By winning this national competition, Jasmine was given the opportunity to perform at one of the biggest music festivals in the world in June this year - the 2008 CMA Music Festival in Nashville. Over 200,000 people attended the event over four days this year. Jasmine also received a recording deal with ABC Music as part of the TRTT competition prize. She released her debut album, Look It Up in September 6, 2008.

 

Rae’s record deal with ABC Music presented her with the opportunity to record in both Australia and the US with two of Nashville’s leading record producers.

 

‘Country Singer’ was recorded with esteemed US producer, Richard Landis. But the recording didn’t take place in the US.

 

The single was recorded at Electric Avenue Studios in Sydney with many of Australia’s finest musicians, including Rod McCormack, Matt Fell, Glenn Wilson and Mick Albeck. It was also engineered by Australian, Paul McKercher.

 

Louie Shelton, who played on The Jacksons’ tracks, ABC, ‘I Want You Back’ and ‘I’ll Be There’; The Monkees hit, ‘Last Train to Clarksville’; Boz Scaggs classic, ‘Silk Degrees’; and Lionel Ritchie’s ‘Hello’, also contributed his considerable talent to the single.

 

Landis described Jasmine’s session as “one of great camaraderie, stunning musicianship and lots of laughter. Jasmine came equipped with far more than a great voice. She had cool production ideas and a really good understanding of who she is as an artist.”

 

Rae recorded four tracks in all with Landis, and then completed the album in June with ex-pat Australian producer, Mark Moffatt in Nashville, after her performance at Nashville’s 2008 CMA Music Festival. Moffatt’s credits include Keith Urban, Tim Finn and Nick Cave.

 

Rae also performed the Australian national anthem at the 3^rd State of Origin game in Sydney in July, front of a television audience of nearly 2 million people.

 

Jasmine Rae’s remarkable vocal talent has allowed her to stretch the boundaries in her debut album. It features a unique mix of raw country, country-pop and alt-country/blues.

 

The album debuted at #5 on ARIA Australian Country Chart and #20 on the ARIA Australian Artists Album Chart (all genres) in September 2008. She was then nominated for two 2009 CMAA Country Music Awards in the categories of Best New Talent and Female Artist of the Year.

 

Jasmine Rae’s music video for her debut album’s opening track ‘Pink Guitar’ is stylistically similar to the blockbuster Frank Millar feature film Sin City and was produced byConti Bros Films  who produced the 2008 Tropfest winning short film, Marry Me.

 

Since releasing the album, Jasmine Rae has gone on to perform at Carols By Candlelight in front of a national prime-time television audience after visiting Aussie troops in East Timor.  She then graced the main stage at CMC Rocks The Snowys in March 2009. Jasmine added another string to her bow when she co-hosted the CMC Rocks The Snowys television special, which featured interviews with and performances from international guests Taylor Swift, Deana Carter, Joe Nichols and Corb Lund. 

 

Jasmine then opened for US super-duo Brooks & Dunn and CMA Award winner Dierks Bentley during their national tour in May 2009.      

 

Jasmine Rae is one of country music’s most active artists online, having accumulated over 12,000 Myspace “friends”, while also engaging daily with fans via her Facebook fan club and Twitter pages.