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Kasey Chambers (born: June 4, 1976) is Australia's most popular country music performer with deuce consecutive albums reaching first on the Australian album stock & index charts within 2002 and 2004. Apiece of her solo albums has achieved atomic number 78 status around Australia.

Dead Ringer band - Early career

Shortly when her birth, her parents Bill Chambers and Diane Chambers took her and her older brother Nash Chambers to the Nullarbor Plain where they earned the residing hunting foxes. within the heat of an remote summertime, the Chambers personal would stay in a little South Australian camping village. When in a Nullarbor, a Chambers personal sang united states music songs both nighttime around the campfire.

Inside 1986, a personal formed a Dead Ringer B& using Bill & Diane when a initial members & Kasey and Nash joining a band a year late. By 1992, a band got turn into fully period musicians by using Bill Chambers writing numerous of the band's songs. Bill Chambers wrote the song for Slim Dusty called "Things Just Aren't the Same on the Land" within 1992 which won a "Song of the Year" in the United states Music Awards. Their 1st album "Red Desert Sky" was freed within 1993 on the independent Import Records label.

A Dead Ringer Band signed sustaining EMI Records shortly after & discharged their 2nd album "Home Fires" around 1995. It contained a only "Australian Song" which topped a Australian united states stock & index charts and won an Australian ARIA award for United states song of the month within 1996. the band won a Golden Guitar Award at the Tamworth Country Music Festival for "Band of the Year" around 1995 & the Mo Award for best united states music type a year late.

A band freed Sleep around the Circle in 1997 & Hopeville around 1998. Kasey Chambers was becoming recognised as a a brightly recently face around Australian country and western. Notwithstanding, a Dead Ringer B& broke higher around 1998 while Bill and Diane Chambers separated by having Diane moving to Norfolk Island. A Dead Ringer b& together earned ii ARIA awards and septenary Golden Guitars in the period of their career.

Solo success

Kasey Chambers recorded her solo album A Captain within Norfolk Isl& above two or three weeks in late 1998 by using Nash Chambers producing a album and Bill Chambers in guitar. Usa united states musicians Buddy Miller and Julie Miller added guitars and vocals to quaternary tracks. A Captain was freed inside 1999 withwithin Australia & in 2000 in the U.s.. Kasey Chambers won a 1999 ARIA Award for "Best Country Album" for The Captain & a year late she would win "Best Female Artist". A heavy word of mouth would one of these days lead to The Captain running double atomic number 78 around Australia. A Captain would sooner or later email a top Fifty of a Hoarding united states albums around 2001 sustaining Chambers touring the U.s. when trend lines work to Lucinda Williams. Afterwards, she supported Emmylou Harris on her Australian tour.

Chambers' 2nd album Barricades & Brickwalls was released in late 2001 debuting at #4 in the ARIA album charts. A record really took off inside early 2002 sustaining lead lone "Not Pretty Enough" attend #1 on the ARIA singles stock and index charts. Chambers became a foremost &, when of June 2004, exclusively Australian united states creative person to have a #1 lone & album on the stock and index charts therein united states at the same time. Subsequent singles "Million Tears" & "If I Were You" likewise manufactured a Australian Top 40 singles stock and index charts inside 2002.

When "Not Pretty Enough" sooner or later went double atomic number 78, Barricades & Brickwalls would achieve sales of 7*platinum in Australia - Chambers had the best selling single and album by an Australian artist in 2002. In the 2002 ARIA Awards, Chambers won "Album of the Year", "Best Female Artist" & "Best Country Album". Barricades & Brickwalls was released in the US in 2002 peaking just outside the top 100 of the Billboard 200 album charts, topping the Billboard Heatseeker Charts and reaching the top 20 of the Billboard country charts. the album besides received a usually caring critical response. [http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/chamberskasey/barricadesandbrickwalls/1]

Around 2002, Chambers & her partner actor/director Corey Hopper had their first binky users Talin Jordi on 22 Can. It moved to the Central Coast. She recorded the handle of the Cyndi Lauper song "True Colours" which became the theme song of the 2003 Rugby World Cup and reached the top Cinque withwithin Australia in Might 2003.

Chambers freed her third solo album Wayward Angel around Australia in Could 31, 2004. It debuted at #1 on the Australian stock & index charts and went atomic number 78 within its foremost week of release. A title song of the album was just about her boy Talon.

Discography

Red Desert Sky (1993) with a Clone Band Home Fires (1995) with a Ringer Band Living in the Circle (1997) with a Clone Band Hopeville (1998) with a Clone Band The Captain (1999) Very Best Of: So Far (2000) the Ringer Band Barricades & Brickwalls (2001) Wayward Angel (2004)

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Arts: Music: Styles: By Decade: 2000s
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