My name is Jasmin Bade, born in Melbourne, Australia. I’m 23, have 4 older brothers and was always quite loud and outgoing (and rather annoying), despite being a bit of a perfectionist riddled with anxiety. I partook in all aspects of an active childhood, including being an extremely average basketballer, an okay mathematics student, and a terrible visual artist. The only thing I particularly excelled in was music, where I dabbled in flute, piano, cello, but all the while playing guitar and singing; and also was pretty good at the trombone for a while actually! I grew up with the dream of moving to Nashville and being a singer-songwriter, and went to the Conservatorium of Music at the University of Tasmania 2015–2017; where I got my Bachelor of Music degree. I moved to Nashville in 2018 and here I am!

How did you start getting interested in music and songwriting?

When I was six years old at Christmas time we were visiting my cousins at their place in a town called Ballarat; a couple hours from Melbourne. And they were playing an album called The Captain by Kasey Chambers; who is a household name in Australia, playing country/folk/singer songwriter type music. I had never heard this type of music before and became obsessed immediately. On the car ride home, mum and dad recall that I was singing it the whole way, and they noticed I didn’t sound too terrible. So from then on I pushed and my parents also encouraged me, and I started singing lessons with the teacher I stuck with until I moved states for university.

What are your favorite Kasey Chambers songs? How would you say her music has influenced yours? What other artists have influenced your writing?

My favourite Kasey Chambers songs are probably some of those from her first few albums; such as The Captain, Hollywood and More Than Ordinary. These songs came out nearly 2 decades ago and I’ll still find myself walking around our home singing them.

Kasey’s music influenced me in such a way that although I definitely do have my own voice; I think I listened to her so much and imitated her so much growing up, that the way I sing has to have been affected by her. She showed me that their can be poetry in writing, and that it doesn’t…