Jasmine Rae

Biography

At just twenty years old, Jasmine Rae is a brand new
talent with a very exciting future, following her huge
win at the 2008 Telstra Road To Tamworth in
January.

She’s quirky, she’s funny, she’s fresh and, even though she’s small in stature, Melbourne-
based singer/songwriter, Jasmine Rae has a powerful, classically-trained voice that is hugely
impressive.

She first embraced country music in the late 90’s after watching country music videos on pay
television. She became the lead singer of alternate-country band, Jazz Lasso, in 2007,
competing in the Battle Of The Bands Grand Final at Melbourne’s Crown Casino. The
diversity of the band members various backgrounds from Rock, Reggae, Jazz and Country,
helped create a raw and unique style of country music for Jasmine and, it was during that
time, she wrote a couple of songs which will appear on her debut album.

One of those songs is her debut single, Country Singer which she performed during her
winning Telstra Road to Tamworth performance in January 2008.

By winning this National Competition, Jasmine was given the opportunity to perform at one of
the biggest music festivals in the world in June this year – the 2008 CMA Music Festival in
Nashville. Over 200,000 people attended the event over four days this year. Jasmine also
received a recording deal with ABC Music as part of the TRTT competition prize.

Rae’s record deal with ABC Music presented her with the opportunity to record in both
Australia and the US with two of Nashville’s leading record producers.

Rae also performed the Australian national anthem at the 3rd State of Origin game in Sydney
in July, front of a television audience of nearly 2 million people.

Based in VIC – travels everywhere