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Short Biography

Kasey Chambers was born in South East South Australia on the 4th June 1976. She is the daughter of steel guitar player Bill Chambers, and the sister of musician and producer Nash Chambers.
Kasey spent her formative years growing up in outback Australia. At the time, Bill was a fox hunter. When Kasey was just six weeks old, Bill and Di decided to pack up their young son and baby and take their work on the road. They spent the next few years living and working all over the Nullarbor out of the back of a four wheel drive. With no access to TV or radio, their favoured form of entertainment was sitting around the campfire singing songs. ****For further info listen to Kasey’s ‘Biggest Backyard (Nullarbor)’ song from ‘Little Bird’. The Chambers eventually moved back into town but continued performing their favourite songs in pubs and clubs. Eventually Nash and Kasey became a regular part of the live performance and this would lead onto what became one of Australia’s favourite and most successful country music bands; ‘The Dead Ringer Band’. ****For further information read ‘A Little Bird Told Me’ by Kasey Chambers & Jeff Apter, published by Harper Collins 2011.
Chambers recorded her solo album The Captain on Norfolk Island over a few weeks in late 1998 with Nash Chambers producing the album and Bill Chambers on guitar. US country musicians Buddy & Julie Miller added guitars and vocals to four tracks. The Captain was released in 1999 in Australia and in 2000 in the US. Chambers won the 1999 ARIA Award for "Best Country Album" for The Captain and a year later she would win "Best Female Artist". The strong word of mouth would eventually lead to The Captain going double platinum in Australia. The Captain would eventually reach the top 50 of the Billboard country albums in 2001 with Chambers touring the US as support act to Lucinda Williams. Subsequently, she supported Emmylou Harris on her Australian tour. Chambers would receive further exposure when The Captain was played on an episode of successful USA TV Drama; The Sopranos.
Chambers' second album ‘Barricades & Brickwalls’ was released in late 2001 debuting at #4 in the ARIA album charts. The record really took off in early 2002 with lead single "Not Pretty Enough" going to #1 on the ARIA singles charts. Chambers became the only Australian country artist to have a #1 single and album on the charts in that country simultaneously. Subsequent singles "Million Tears" and "If I Were You" also made the Australian Top 40 singles charts in 2002. While "Not Pretty Enough" eventually went double platinum, Barricades & Brickwalls would achieve sales of 7 x platinum in Australia meaning Chambers had the second best selling single and album by an Australian artist in 2002 behind Kylie Minogue whose single ‘Can’t Get You Out Of My Head’ and album ‘Fever’ became the biggest successes of the year. At the 2002 ARIA Awards, Chambers won "Album of the Year", "Best Female Artist" and "Best Country Album". ‘Barricades & Brickwalls’ was released in the US in 2002 peaking just outside the top 100 of the Billboard 200 album charts and reaching the top 20 of the Billboard country charts.
Kasey gave birth to her first son Talon Jordie Hopper on May 22, 2002 with then partner Corey Hopper.
In early 2003, Kasey recorded a cover of the Cyndi Lauper song ‘True Colours’ which became the theme song of the 2003 Rugby World Cup and reached the top 5 in Australia in May 2003. This song would also be released on Kasey’s ‘Storybook’ album in 2011.
Chambers released her third solo album ‘Wayward Angel’ in Australia on 31 May 2004. It debuted at #1 on the Australian charts and went platinum in its first week of release. Singles from the album include "Hollywood", "Pony" and "Saturated".
In late 2005, Chambers married Australian singer/songwriter Shane Nicholson.
Kasey’s 4th album ‘Carnival’ debuted in the #1 position on the ARIA album charts in late August 2006. The lead single, "Nothing at All" also reached the top ten of the singles chart.
In 2007, Kasey gave birth to her second child, – Shane’s first – a little boy called Arlo Ray on 16 July 2007.
It was also during that year that Kasey and Shane commenced co-writing. They’d never co-written with each other before so it was with much trepidation that they decided to give it ago. The result was the number one album charting, platinum selling and multi award winning ‘Rattlin Bones’ album released in
April 2008. This was also the first album with Kasey and Shane’s new label; Liberation Music, a part of
Michael Gudinski’s Mushroom Group Of Companies. Both artists also signed to the label for their
respective solo releases.
Never one to be content with touring and recording, the Multi-ARIA award winner, chart-topper and
mother of two Kasey teamed up with father Bill Chambers to co-write and record an album of family
friendly songs accompanied by the Little Hillbillies - (Talon, Arlo, Eden, Skye, Béla, Jake, Tyler, and
Townes). The ‘Kasey Chambers, Poppa Bill & The Little Hillbillies’ album was accompanied by a
gorgeous children’s book written by Kasey and her good friend Bernadette Werchon titled ‘Little Kasey
Chambers and The Lost Music’. Both were released in October 2009.
Kasey then advised her manager and record label that after the 2010 Tamworth Country Music Festival
that she’d take time out from writing, recording and touring as she needed a break. What eventuated was
Kasey came home from the festival with a stack of new song ideas and started writing and recording
within weeks.
The result was her fifth album ‘Little Bird’.
Kasey Chambers ‘Little Bird’ album was released in September 2010, debuting on the national album
charts at #3, achieving gold status after 4 weeks and going on to win 4 Golden Guitars at the 2011
Tamworth Country Music Awards.
Kasey’s second single from her ‘Little Bird’ album ‘Beautiful Mess’ was awarded the Grand Prize for the
US based International Songwriting Competition of 2011. Kasey also won the ISC’s Americana Award for
‘Devil On Your Back’ and second prize for ISC Performance for ‘Little Bird’. All of Kasey’s ISC awardwinning
songs are from the ‘Little Bird’ album.
Title track and first single lifted from the album ‘Little Bird’ was also awarded APRA Country Song Of
The Year.
Kasey’s ‘Little Bird’ album was awarded the ARIA Country Album Of The Year 2011. Both Kasey and
husband Shane Nicholson were nominated in this category for their respective solo albums - Kasey with
‘Little Bird’ and Shane for ‘Bad Machines. This was Kasey’s 10th career ARIA and 6th Country ARIA
Album of the Year.
In August 2011, Kasey's autobiography 'A Little Bird Told Me' co-written with Jeff Apter was published
by Harper Collins and is currently sitting on the top selling book lists nationally. To accompany the book,
Kasey recorded and released an album of cover versions of songs that she loves and that have inspired
her during the course of her life and recording career. The album titled 'Storybook' was released on
September 23rd, 2011 through Liberation Music/Australia.
Kasey, husband Shane Nicholson and sons Talon and Arlo were thrilled to welcome a brand new member
to the family; baby girl Poet Poppin Nicholson born on Thursday October 6, 2011.
Kasey & Shane’s next collaboration Wreck & Ruin was released in September 2012 and debuted on the
national ARIA charts at #6 and on the National Country Music album charts at #1. It features the Golden
Guitar nominated single ‘Adam & Eve’ and their latest single ‘Quiet Life’.

In-depth Biography
In 2000, Kasey Chambers emerged as Australia's first successful country-to-rock crossover female singer. It was just the latest chapter in a unique 25-year life journey. In 1976, hoping to earn a living hunting foxes, Bill and Diane Chambers took their two-year-old son Nash and newborn daughter Kasey into the 100,000 square mile (260,000 square km) sparsely vegetated and generally flat plateau called the Nullarbor Plain. The family would spend seven or eight months of the year on the Nullarbor, resupplying themselves from the world's longest stretch of straight railroad track, 330 miles (530 km), running through the Nullarbor. The rest of the year, the hot months, the family spent at a small south Australian fishing village. Each night out on the Nullarbor, after a day's hunting, the family would camp in a different spot on that vast Australian landmark and, grabbing his guitar, Bill Chambers and his wife passed on their love of country music, by the glow of the campfire, under the stars. This is how Kasey spent the first nine years of her life.

In 1986, the family returned to "civilization" so that Bill and Diane could pick up interrupted music careers. First, Kasey joined them as lead singer, then brother Nash, and they became known as the Dead Ringer Band. By 1992, the family had become full-time musicians, playing to city audiences as well as heading back out into the countryside, pulling a small trailer behind their Toyota Land Cruiser. During the '90s, the Dead Ringer Band members, known as performers of quality country music, released seven CDs and collectively earned two ARIAs (Australian Grammys) and seven Gold Guitars at the annual Australian Country Music Awards in Tamworth. Kasey was the face of the new generation in Australian country. She appeared at Tamworth dressed as a spice girl, wearing a nose ring, and posed nude for a country music magazine (walking down the streets of a deserted country town with brother Nash).

In 1998, Chambers' world was turned upside down with the separation of her parents, with mother Diane choosing to go and live in distant Norfolk Island, two and a half hours by plane off the Australian coast. Chambers started putting her feelings into songs, and over a few weeks during July and August 1998, Kasey recorded her solo album The Captain on Norfolk Island. With brother Nash acting as producer, Kasey and her musicians set up in an old homestead on the island and practically recorded the album live. Father Bill was on hand to play guitar. Country legends Buddy and Julie Miller added their voices and guitar to four tracks afterward in Nashville.

Released in May 1999, the album The Captain initially won Kasey the 1999 ARIA award for Best Country Album and, at the 2000 awards, earned her Best Female Artist. With double-platinum sales at home in Australia, Kasey spent the latter part of 2000 following up enthusiastic reviews for her album internationally. She also spent time touring the U.S. with Lucinda Williams and playing gigs in her native land with Emmylou Harris. She was in the studio as well; with her brother Nash at the production board once again, Chambers delivered another sonic beauty with 2002's Barricades & Brickwalls. The album was a multi-platinum success in Australia and significantly raised her profile in the United States, earning her enthusiastic reviews and much better sales than The Captain.

After a two-year layoff, during which Chambers and her husband, Aussie singer/songwriter Shane Nicholson, had a baby, she released her third solo disc, Wayward Angel, in the fall of 2004. The 14-song set gave Chambers her first number one album in Australia. Two years later, Chambers' song "The Hard Way" was featured in an episode of the ABC adventure drama Lost. Carnival, released in September 2006, included collaborations with Tim Rogers of You Am I and Powderfinger's Bernard Fanning. ~ Ed Nimmervoll, All Music Guide