BIOGRAPHY

Jasmine Rae has had one of the fastest rising careers of any local artist in recent years. Her ARIA nominated debut album Look It Up yielded two #1 singles, with Australia’s King of Country, Lee Kernaghan, describing Jasmine Rae as, "the hottest new artist to come out of Australia in a long time". 

Her empowered second album, Listen Here was released on March 4, 2011. It debuted at #35 and spent multiple weeks in the ARIA Top 40 Albums chart (all genres) as well as spending three weeks at #1 on the ARIA Australian Country Albums Sales chart. The album also peaked as high as #5 on the ARIA Australian Albums Sales chart (all genres).

Listen Here’s first two singles, ‘Hunky Country Boys’ and ‘I’ll Try Anything’ (featuring US country superstar Joe Nichols) went to #1 on both the Australian Country Radio and Music Video charts. While the album’s third single ‘I Faked It’ has also hit in the #1 Australian Country Music Video (CMC) chart and New Zealand iTunes Music Video chart.

Back when it all began… with only one single release under her belt - the self-written chart topper ‘Country Singer’, Jasmine Rae’s first album Look It Up sensationally debuted at #5 on ARIA Country Sales Chart in September 2008. Jasmine Rae was then nominated for two 2009 Country Music Awards of Australia, including Female Artist of the Year. In the same year, Look It Up was nominated for an ARIA Award for Best Country Album.  

After topping the country radio and music video charts, Jasmine Rae was the first locally based country artist to achieve one million song plays on Myspace. She’s now also had over 400,000 music video plays on Youtube, including over a quarter of a million for hit #1 single ‘Look It Up’. Big numbers for an Australian country artist.

Jasmine Rae has already earned the endorsement of some of the world's biggest country acts, having toured with the likes of Alan Jackson, Brooks & Dunn, Joe Nichols, Tim McGraw, Dierks Bentley, Adam Harvey and most recently Lee Kernaghan throughout 2010. She’s already performed at all of Australia’s major country music festivals and at the world’s biggest country music festival, the CMA Music Festival in Nashville. 

Touring with Kernaghan gave her the best opportunity imaginable to connect with Australia’s heartland and become even closer to people who are discovering Jasmine Rae’s exceptional talent. 

To support the release of Listen Here, Jasmine Rae  was the main support act for Alan Jackson’s first ever sold out Australian Arena tour in March 2011. She performed at Acer Arena in Sydney and Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, followed by three shows at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre. 

Jasmine Rae also performed on the main stage at CMC Rocks The Hunter on the weekend of Listen Here’s release. 

Kicking off with the album’s first hit single, ‘Hunky Country Boys’ the most notable point to make straight away about the thirteen track Listen Here is Jasmine Rae’s obvious development as an incredibly talented songwriter. Her assessment of ‘Hunky Country Boys’ is one of “just being honest!” 

Jasmine Rae’s unique, genuine and refreshing creative touch is stamped all over her collaborations with credentialed songwriters from both the US and Australia.  

"I have been very inspired and learned so much from working with each and every one of these world class writers," Jasmine Rae says.

"When words and music are your passion, it's a real privilege to be able to co-write songs with such talented people." 

Then there’s her incredible vocal range, soulful vocal quality, emotive and relatable songs and engaging musicality which resonates from start to finish. 

Jasmine Rae’s take on Australian country music is refreshingly unique. While making a record that fundamentally touches on the genuine issues, core values and passions of Australian country music fans, Jasmine Rae’s edgier and less “text book” approach to her music also makes her very appealing to audiences who like a variety of different music styles. 

"When you write a song, you can always say exactly what you meant to say in real life, or shouldhave said, but was unable to stammer out at the time." Jasmine Rae says.  

"Each song is like a little piece of closure."

The icing on the album’s cake is ‘I’ll Try Anything’, the stunning duet recorded with US superstar Joe Nichols. In securing this rare opportunity, Jasmine Rae joins a very small list of Australian country acts to record a track with a major US country artist. 

"Joe Nichols has one of the most incredible voices in country music today. Pure liquid gold. I am thrilled to be sharing this song with him". 

Listen Here was recorded in Nashville and is produced by Grammy nominated Australian Mark Moffatt, whose credits include Nick Cave, Keith Urban & Tim Finn. Moffatt has also recently worked on projects with leading US acts Jason Aldean and Gloriana and he produced the majority of the tracks on Jasmine’s first album. 

Jasmine Rae signed a major recording deal with ABC Music in early 2008 and this presented her with the opportunity to in fact record in both Australia and the US with two of Nashville’s leading record producers. 

Her debut single ‘Country Singer’ was recorded with esteemed US producer and CMA Award winner, 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 has played on tracks such as The Jacksons’ tracks ‘ABC’, ‘I Want You Back’ and ‘I’ll Be There’, 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.” 

Jasmine Rae recorded four tracks in all with Landis, and then completed the album in June with Moffatt in Nashville. Moffatt produced Jasmine Rae’s second single ‘Look it Up’ which topped both the country radio and music video charts in Australia. 

Jasmine Rae’s third single and Look It Up’s opening track ‘Pink Guitar’ has a music video stylistically similar to the blockbuster Frank Millar feature film Sin City. It was produced by Conti Bros Films who produced the 2008 Tropfest winning short film, Marry Me. ‘Pink Guitar’ is considered one of the best locally produced music videos ever made in Australia. The track was later recorded by country legend Reba McEntire. 

Jasmine Rae has performed at Carols By Candlelight in front of a national prime-time television audience, she visited and performed for Aussie troops in East Timor in 2008 and she graced the main stage at CMC Rocks The Snowys in 2009 while adding another string to her bow - co-hosting the CMC Rocks The Snowys television special. The special featured interviews with and performances from international guests Taylor Swift, Deana Carter, Joe Nichols and Corb Lund.  Jasmine also opened for US super-duo Brooks & Dunn and CMA Award winner Dierks Bentley during their 2009 Australian tour. 

Listen Here will most definitely cement Jasmine Rae in the top tier of Australia’s current generation of country music singer/songwriters.  And with the endorsement of Kernaghan, Jackson, Nichols and so many others, expect her to make a prominent impact globally as well in the not so distant future.