Kasey Chambers

At 47 years old, Kasey Chambers has this physical status:

Kasey Chambers (born 4 June 1976) is an Australian country singer-songwriter and guitarist born in Mount Gambier.

She is the niece and younger sister of singer and producer Nash Chambers, along with fellow musician Diane and Bill Chambers.

Chambers also performed as a member of the Dead Ringer Band, a family-based music group from 1992 to 1998, with Chambers beginning her solo career thereafter.

Five of her twelve studio albums have reached No. 1 on the charts. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart, Barricades & Brickwalls (September 2001), Wayward Angel (May 2004), Carnival (August 2006), Rattlin' Bones (with her then-husband Shane Nicholson) and Dragonfly (January 2017).

She was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in November 2018 and has received nine more ARIA Music Awards, nine for Best Country Album.

In 2011, her autobiography A Little Bird Told Me..., co-authored with music journalist Jeff Apter, was published.

Personal life

Cori Hopper, a Perth-born actor, film, and music video maker, died after being based in Sydney from 2000 Kasey Chambers' domestic partner. Talon, the couple's son, was born in 2002; they separated in November 2004. Hopper appeared on Australia's Funniest Home Videos from January to December of that year and was a regular cast member of The Wedge in 2006.

Chambers married Shane Nicholson, a fellow country music singer-songwriter, on December 17, 2005. On his debut solo album, Chambers performed "Designed to Fade." Rattlin' Bones (2008) and Wreck & Ruin (2012) co-released two albums, respectively. Two children live in Chambers and Nicholson: Arlo Ray (2007) and daughter Poet Poppin (2011). The couple announced their separation in April 2013.

Chambers was diagnosed with an eating disorder at the age of 30, a combination of bulimia and anorexia nervosa. "I just didn't feel myself and knew that something wasn't right." "I didn't feel myself and knew that something wasn't wrong." It wasn't "Oh look fat in photos" that it was. It was more about the control stuff than the technology." "She accepts that it will be a bad day or a bad week," a psychologist and MammaMia's Jessie Stephens said, and negativity is a significant part of living a balanced lifestyle. "Engaging it will lead to jitters that appear in a new, more debilitating manner."

"A Little Bird Told Me" (2011), Chambers' book, "a disarmingly honest account of a rare talent." "Despite all the success, a tragedy struck through miscarriage, a broken marriage, anorexia, and a breakdown," Corinna Hente of the Herald Sun wrote. She resurrects her life with music after playing covers with her family in a local pub called the Lost Dogs. "It's not the right idea to get up and perform with a band when you're nine months pregnant, ten days overdue, and larger than a barn," she said, but there was something about my gigs with the Lost Dogs band that was impossible to avoid. "They were a reminder of why I'd fallen in love with music in the first place."

Chambers was raised as a Seventh-day Adventist, but by 2002, she was no longer affiliated with the church. "Is God Real?" says the singer after he's released her single. "It is a very personal thing, which is probably why we don't talk about it," she said in April 2015, but I don't think that means we shouldn't have a higher power." I don't have a yes or no answer. I have some belief in this situation, but it has evolved a lot over the years." She lives in Copacabana, New South Wales Central Coast, as of November 2018.

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Solo career

During July and August 1998, Chambers recorded her debut solo album, The Captain, on Norfolk Island, with her brother Nash producing and father Bill on guitar. Buddy and Julie Miller, a retired country musician, wrangled guitars and vocals to four songs on four tracks. The Captain was released by EMI Music Australia in May 1999 and Asylum Records in the United States in June 2000. It reached No. 1 on the charts. No. 11 on the ARIA Albums Chart and No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart, and No. 94 on the ARIA Albums Chart and No. 1 on the ARIA Country Albums chart. She received Best Country Album at the ARIA Music Awards in 1999, and in the years afterward she received Best Female Artist for its title track, which was first released in 2000.

In 2001, the Captain was named double platinum for exporting 140,000 copies by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). In 2001, it debuted in the top 50 of Billboard Top Country Albums. On the Australian leg of Lucinda Williams' tour, she toured the United States as a relief act for Lucinda Williams and then continued to Emmylou Harris. In episode 8 ("He Is Risen") of The Sopranos' third season, "The Captain" was portrayed.

Barricades & Brickwalls, Chambers' second studio album, was released in September 2001 by EMI Music, which was also produced by Nash. It debuted at No. 1 in the United States. The ARIA Albums Chart has a top 4 and a peak at No. 4; The following year, the 1st in February was the following year. Its third album, "Not Pretty Enough," debuted in January 2002, and it also ranked at No. 3. In the same month, there was 1 on the ARIA Singles Chart. Chambers penned the song, and Ian McFarlane, an Australian musicologist, said, "It's] about being ignored by commercial radio." "I wrote [it] as a song about feeling invisible,'" she wrote, "It] was apparent that out in the music business, there was only one way for the majority of young women, oversexualized and over made up. To succeed, you're going to need to be like Britney or Shakira."

She is the first Australian country music artist to have simultaneous No. 1. 1 single and album. "Million Tears" (June 2002) and "If I Were You" (October) were two of the top ten songs on the list, followed by Subsequent Singles. Barricades & Brickwalls won three categories, Album of the Year, Best Female Artist, and Best Country Album in 2002 for Barricades & Brickwalls. In 2003, it was awarded seven times platinum for the export of at least 490,000 copies. It was first introduced in the United States in February 2002, when it he topped No. 1 in the United States. 104 on the Billboard 200, the highest on the Heatseeker Chart and ranked in the top 20 of their country's top 20. According to aggregate website Metacritic, it received a score of 74% from 12 commentators.

Ed Nimmervoll, a British music journalist, compared it to her first album, "The musical cast remains the same as The Captain," with the addition of a 'rock' component via drummer Peter Luscombe and rhythm guitarist Dave Steel as a guest on 'punkabilly' band the Living End. In addition, Paul Kelly and Lucinda Williams of the United States appear on the album. "The last album told my life story," Chambers said. That was the first time Kasey Chambers were introduced. This one is "The Many Moods of Kasey Chambers."

In April 2003, Chambers produced a cover version of Cyndi Lauper's "Reality Colours" (April 2003), which peaked at No. 2 in the United States. 4 on the ARIA Singles Chart, with a score of 4 on the ARIA Singles Chart. In that year, it was used as the theme song for the Rugby World Cup. Her interpretation ranked No. 1 in the U.S. On the End of Year Top 100 Singles for 2003, 76, and was rated as a gold record for shipment of 35,000. Chambers received three awards in three categories, including "Not Pretty Enough," as Song of the Year, Most Performed Australian Work, and Most Performed Country Service.

In May 2004, she debuted Wayward Angel, her third solo album, which debuted at No. 1. On the ARIA Albums Chart, 1 is number one and has remained at number one for five weeks. By the end of the year, the company was awarded triple platinum for exporting 210,000 copies. Mark Deming of AllMusic found that "[it] is perhaps less striking than her first two sets, The Captain and Barricades & Brickwalls, if only because she fought out her style on those sessions, and here she's harvesting from the ground she broke earlier today. But this does also seem to be her most accomplished attempt to date."

"Hollywood" (August 2004, ), "Pony" (January 2005), and "Saturated" are two of the album's singles. (May) Chambers appeared at the Wave Aid charity concert in Sydney in January 2005 to raise funds for organisations in disaster-affected areas. She received both Best Female Artist and Best Country Album for Wayward Angel at the ARIA Music Awards in 2004.

Carnival, Chambers' fourth studio album (August 2006), debuted at No. 4 in the world's fourth studio album, debuted at No. 1 on the charts. 1. "It" is roots-friendly enough that it isn't likely to alienate many of her followers, according to Deming, and this collection represents a welcome change from her earlier music's country-influenced approach; the majority of these 12 songs are easygoing but enjoyable roots rock with a bluesy undertone; and, if anything, the new musical backdrops have contributed to the depth of her emotional landscapes. "Nothing at All" (July) was its lead single, and it made it to the top ten.

In April 2008, Chambers released Rattlin' Bones, her then-husband, Shane Nicholson's first collaboration album, which was co-produced by Nash and Nicholson. It debuted at No. 1 in the U.S. By the end of the year, the company had been named platinum for 70,000 shipments. No Depression's Frank Gutch Jnr expressed concern that "[it] could be the soundtrack of the Old West" or elements from the old mountain lifestyle. They have it down, from the sparing use of mandolin and the Everly Brothers' harmonies to the dirt-beneails aura. This is American music. Except that it's Australian. It's a conundrum.

In March 2009, Chambers and Nicholson were joined by Troy Cassar-Daley, a fellow country musician, to appear at Sound Relief, a charity concert held to help victims of the Victorian bushfires in February 2009. It was held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, alongside another concert at the Sydney Cricket Ground. All of the funds from the Melbourne concert went to the Red Cross Victorian Bushfire Relief Fund. Augie March, Bliss N Eso, Hunters & Collectors, Jack Johnson, Jet, Bliss N Eso, Bliss N Eso, Midnight Oil, Paul Kelly, Split Enz, and Wolfmother were among those attending Chambers in Melbourne.

During 2009, the Chambers collaborated with Bill, Nash, and family friends to debut a children's music album, Kasey Chambers, Poppa Bill, and the Little Hillbillies. In 2010, it received the Australian Independent Record (AIR) Award for Best Independent Country Album. Little Kasey Chambers and the Lost Music, a children's book written by Bernadette Werchon, was also co-wrote a children's tale as part of the grant.

Little Bird, the artist's seventh studio album, debuted on Liberation Music in September 2010. 3. Jonathan Keefe of Slant Magazine rated it as four out-of-five actors and wrote: "[I] is a polished, studio-slick collection of pop-country whose songs are catchy as hell." It's the economy of [her] songwriting, which has been the source of the comparisons between her and [Lucinda] Williams' work, as well as Chambers' deep understanding of song structure that has enabled her to create real emotional depth from just a few turn of phrase. In 2011, it was named Best Country Album at the ARIA Awards.

Storybook, Chambers' next studio album, was released in September 2011 and featured cover versions of other artists' work, which peaked at No. 1 on the charts. 21. Jason D Hamad of No Surf Music explained how "I can't say that this album breaks any new ground because of its very nature." Nonetheless, it does justice to Chambers' sometimes-eclectic roots and adds a new layer of understanding for her followers."

"Luka" (2011), Susan Vega's debut from 1987, is a sequel to her album "Lass". Hamad discussed how "[she] strips away the 80's synth-pop, replacing it with more modern instruments, such as a prominent, bouncing bass, but keeps the airy musical tone meant to contrast with the lyrics' darker tone." A Little Bird Told Me... was co-authored by Jeff Apter and published later this year, and it was published later this year.

She is currently No. 2 in her second collaboration with Nicholson, Wreck & Ruin, who began in September 2012. In the upcoming year, ARIA will award Best Country Album of the Year. "The married couple layering intricate vocal harmonies over an ordinary, mainly acoustic country-rock," Keefe discovered on the album. [I] impresses for its thematic emphasis and gallows parody, but the economy of word use in songwriting occasionally scans as a bit pedestrian."

On April 23, 2013, it was revealed that Nicholson and Kasey Chambers had split, with work and family life causing the break.

Bittersweet, Chambers' tenth studio album, debuted in August 2014 and debuted at No. 1 in the world. 2. It was produced by Nick DiDia – her first album that was not produced by her brother, Nash. "She" has written a series of songs that are obviously insightful but deal with issues of the heart and soul with unrelent honesty, but her tumultuous vocals never deliver anything short of the truth. [It] is a great, uplifting album from one of the world's best and most distinctive singer/songwriters, and it shows that she will go in a multitude of directions while still offering her listeners something new."

It was also recorded after her marital break from Nicholson last year. "It finds her canvassing a variety of styles and moods, often with religious/biblical references," Chris Familton of the Music's website, "without sacrificeing her heart-on-sleeve emotion, innate sense of melody, and country heart." Bernard Fanning (ex-Powderfinger), a duet with Bernard Fanning (Familton), "works with a Neil Young looseness that does wonders." At the ARIA Music Awards of 2014, it was named Best Country Album.

On a tribute album for soul blues singer Ted Hawkins, Cold and Bitter Tears, which was released on Eight 30 Records in Austin, Texas, she covered the song "Cold and Bitter Tears" in late 2015. "My dad called me up one day and told me of the scheme; We caught it at my dad's house, people jamming about a mike," she said. It was a very special thing. I play with my dad all the time, but the novelty never wears off. "I adore the result that we create together."

Dragonfly, her eleventh studio album, debuted in January 2017 and ranked No. 1 in the world. 1. Nash's Foggy Mountain studio and Australian singer-songwriter Paul Kelly, recording another session at Sing Sing Studios in Melbourne, it's a double album. In mid-year, she began touring the United States for the first time. In addition to dueting on a track with Kelly, she also performs on a track with Ed Sheeran, Keith Urban, and Foy Vance.

"She] has always tended to write from a position of abstraction," Rolling Stone Australia's Gareth Hipwell wrote, "[she] has often attempted to eschew the more reticent route of songwriting from a place of abstraction, consistently wearing her deepest truths and uncertainties on her sleeve. On a free-ranging double-LP Dragonfly, it's a poetic penchant that has been left ablaze: "Talkin' Baby Blues," a glimpse at Woody Guthriesque spoken-word acoustica, is a shockingly candid retelling of Chambers' rich history to date. "[it] functions as a summation of sorts of the singer's entire career, slow-burning folk-rock, melodic radio-pop, Woody Guthrie's talking blues, and proud country gospel," Jonathan Bernstein of American Songwriter rated it at three-and-a-Bounds out of five, out of five out-of-five, explaining that "it] switches seamlessly between Appalachian mountain music, slow-burning folk-burning country-met She received her eighth Best Country Album award for Dragonfly at the ARIA Music Awards in 2017.

Campfire, the Chambers' twelfth studio album, released in April 2018, is a project titled "ad hoc acoustic ensemble" by Bill Dobro, Brandon Dodd on acoustic guitar, and Alan Pigram on mandolin (and vocals on the album's lead track). It hit No. 10 on the charts at No. 1. The 6th edition was co-produced by Chambers, Bill, Dodd, Pigram, and Jordan Power. Chambers also won the Best Country Album category for the ninth time in ARIA's Best Solo Female Artist category. Campfire received the Traditional Country Album of the Year at the Australian Country Music Awards in 2019.

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