Baldivis country music star Jasmine Atkins is back with her latest single Get Gone in the lead up to her set at the 2019 Tamworth Country Music Festival in January.
Her performance will be the 22-year-old’s seventh appearance at Tamworth.
Get Gone was released on October 15 and quickly hit No. 5 on the iTunes Country Music chart with the video clip already viewed thousands of times.
“It’s a huge achievement,” Atkins said.
“I went and did some songwriting in December with a few different country artists over east and that’s where I worked with Kirsty Lee Akers who I co-wrote the single with.
“It’s about a breakup where the guy has cheated on the girl and then he realises that he’s done wrong and tries to all different ways to get her back and she just keeps telling him to go away because she’s realised she’s better than that.”
The singer-songwriter started her music career when she was just three years old, teaching herself to play the piano by numbers.
“When I started reading in school [my parents] got me a teacher for piano because they didn’t want me to read music before I could read words,” she laughed.
“I started singing when I was eight and used to sing in a little band in the music school I was at and that’s when I started writing my own songs.
“I remember my first song was called Call the Shots and it was about how much I hated that my brother would annoy me.”
Since learning the guitar at nine-years-old, the aspiring musician started playing regular gigs at pubs and restaurants as her career began to skyrocket.
Atkins graduated from the CMAA Academy of Country Music in Tamworth in 2015 and the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 2016 with a Bachelor of Music
Winner of the 2016 Tamworth ‘Most Promising Artist’ and the 2018 Boyup Brook Country Music Festival ‘Best Emerging Artist’, the music teacher balances her teaching career, playing regular gigs across the state and finding inspiration for new songs.
“As I’m getting older as a songwriter, I find there’s more things that have opened up that I can write about,” she said.
When you’re younger, there’s not too much to write about except a school crush or an annoying brother.
- Jasmine Atkins
“I like to write from experiences, things that I’ve seen or stories that I’ve heard or stuff that’s happened to me but I have tackled some subjects like domestic violence and depression in young people.”
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Atkins said the country music industry can be a hard one to crack in Western Australia.
“It’s a lot bigger over on the east coast so I just go backwards and forwards working with people over there and try to do the best that I can,” she said.
“Also sometimes with the genre of country, people have a perception of what that is but there’s a lot of different artists out there at the moment that are challenging what country is
“You’ve got Morgan Evans, Florida Georgia Line, Carrie Underwood and Keith Urban that are all getting on mainstream radio and that’s really cool because we’re all starting to push through that barrier.”
Get Gone is available for download on iTunes, Spotify and Google Play. To see more from Jasmine Atkins, visit her Facebook page.
