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…