1. Kasey Chambers was born on 4 June 1976 and is an Australian country singer-songwriter and musician born in Mount Gambier to musicians Diane and Bill Chambers.
22 Facts About Kasey Chambers
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Kasey Chambers was born in 1976 in Mount Gambier, South Australia, to Diane and Bill Chambers.
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Kasey Chambers's older brother, Nash Chambers, was born in 1974.
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From July 1976, the Chambers family travelled around the Nullarbor Plain, where the parents hunted foxes and rabbits for pelts during seven or eight months a year, spanning nine years.
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Kasey Chambers recorded vocals for two albums released under Bill's name: Sea Eagle and Kindred Spirit.
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Kasey Chambers met fellow country singer-songwriter Beccy Cole in mid-1989 in Adelaide, and she joined Dead Ringer Band on a tour through New South Wales before going solo.
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The group ended when Kasey Chambers' parents divorced in the late 1990s.
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Kasey Chambers recorded her debut solo album, The Captain, on Norfolk Island during July and August 1998 with her brother Nash producing and father Bill on guitar.
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Kasey Chambers toured the US as a support act to Lucinda Williams and later supported Emmylou Harris on the Australian leg of that artist's tour.
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At the APRA Music Awards of 2003, Kasey Chambers won three categories with "Not Pretty Enough" named as Song of the Year, Most Performed Australian Work and Most Performed Country Work.
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Kasey Chambers and Nicholson were joined by fellow country musician, Troy Cassar-Daley, to perform at Sound Relief, in March 2009, which was a benefit concert in support of survivors of the February 2009 Victorian bushfires.
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Kasey Chambers's single from the album, "Luka", is a rendition of Susan Vega's original from 1987.
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Kasey Chambers' 12th studio album, Campfire, is a collaboration with the Fireside Disciples, an "ad hoc acoustic ensemble," comprising Bill on dobro, Brandon Dodd on acoustic guitar, and Alan Pigram on mandolin.
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At the ARIA Music Awards of 2018, Kasey Chambers became the youngest solo female artist to be inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame, as well as winning the Best Country Album category for a record ninth time.
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From 2000, Kasey Chambers' domestic partner was Cori Hopper, a Perth-born actor, film and music video maker, later based in Sydney.
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On December 17,2005, Kasey Chambers married fellow country music singer-songwriter Shane Nicholson.
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Kasey Chambers had sung a duet, "Designed to Fade," with Nicholson on his debut solo album, It's a Movie, which was produced by Nash Kasey Chambers.
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At age 30, Kasey Chambers was diagnosed with a combination of the eating disorders bulimia and anorexia nervosa.
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Kasey Chambers rebuilt her life with music, playing covers with her family in a band called the Lost Dogs at the local pub.
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Kasey Chambers was raised in the Seventh-day Adventist Church by her parents.
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Kasey Chambers has won and been nominated for numerous music awards.
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Kasey Chambers was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2018.