| Jasmine Rae | |
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| Birth name | Jasmine Rae |
| Origin | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Genres | Country, country pop |
| Occupations | Singer-songwriter |
| Instruments | Vocals |
| Years active | 2007–present |
| Labels | Universal Australia |
| Associated acts | Brooks & Dunn |
| Website | Official website |
Jasmine Rae is a classically trained Australian Country singer and songwriter who is best known for her song "Country Singer" and for winning the Telstra Road to Tamworth in 2008.
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Rae, born Jasmine Eldridge, has been singing and songwriting since she was seven years old when she would sell her poems at independent fairy stalls.[1] She performed her first original song at eight and then started singing lessons at sixteen. When she was fifteen she performed at International Women's Day. In 2004 at 16 years of age she was invited to perform with The Moreland City Band, in 2005 they made a film clip for their version of "Killing Me Softly" in which Jasmine provided lead vocals.
n 2005 Rae left high school and decided to learn more about making music, enrolling at Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE, where she studied and completed her Advanced Diploma in Music. At NMIT she met a wide range of Melbourne's musicians and became fully focused on her career as a vocalist, writer and performer.
Rae had a passion for country music since 1997 when her family got subscription television and she watched CMC[2] the country music channel for Australia, in 2007 she appeared with Jazz Lasso an alternate-country band in the Battle of the Bands with her older brother who plays bass for the band. Some of the songs she wrote for them later appeared on her debut album Look It Up.
In 2008 Rae auditioned for the Telstra Road to Tamworth she was already familiar with the competition from watching CMC however she had never auditioned before she won the Yarra Valley heat of the competition and eventually went on to win the entire event, winning the event gave her a record contract with ABC Music and allowed her to perform at the 2008 CMA music festival in Nashville.
Since then she has recorded her debut album Look It Up. The title track, "Look It Up", (#1 Austrailian charts) was later covered by American country artist Ashton Shepherd. Shepherd's version was released as a single in January 2011, and has since become a Top 20 hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.