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Date: Tue Sep 16 10:42 AM, 2008

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Country singer Jasmine Rae always dreamt of having her debut album out before she celebrated her 21st birthday. Not only has the 20-year-old from Melbourne achieved that, but Look It Up entered the country charts this week at number five. Not bad for a girl who wrote her first country song last year. "It's pretty cool," Rae said. "It's something I've been wanting for a really long time. It's been a dream of mine to have it out before my 21st birthday, and my 21st is next month. "It was ticking down, and I was like: 'oh no!'." With that achievement in the bag, Rae is setting her sights high: "Now I'm just going to conquer the world, that's my next goal". Since winning the 2008 Telstra Road To Tamworth in January, Rae's career has blossomed. In May, she released her debut single to radio, the self-penned hit Country Singer. In June, she performed at one of the biggest music festivals in the world, the CMA Music Festival in Nashville, which is attended by more than 200,000 country music fans. In July, she topped that by singing the Australian national anthem at the third State of Origin game in Sydney, in front of a television audience of nearly two million people. Rae says she is loving every minute of it. "This is my first year not studying and I'm having a real ball," she said. Country music has always been her first love, after growing up watching the Country Music Channel and being inspired by Dolly Parton, The Dixie Chicks, Shania Twain and Kasey Chambers. She said it was the arresting lyrics of those songs that first caught her ear. "I think it's the stories that are told within the songs, and the background feel to the music, and also the really clever lyrics," Rae said. "It's such a diverse genre that I definitely wanted to be a part of it, and put my own stamp on it as well." While Rae said she had also been influenced by rock, pop and blues music, she was never tempted to abandon her country roots for a sound with more mainstream appeal. "To get mainstream airplay (for country songs) is a little bit more difficult, but definitely not impossible because I plan to have my music heard by a lot of people," she said. "I feel like the sky's the limit, and it doesn't matter what genre you come from, it's all music and if it's good people should enjoy it." http://www.smh.com.au/news/music/things-looking-up-for-rae/2008/09/16/1221330827452.html __________________

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