For award-winning country songwriter and singer Kasey Chambers, music is all in the family. Chambers was born on June 4, 1976 in Mt. Gambier, New South Wales, Australia. Her father, Bill Chambers, was a steel guitar player as was her mother Diane. When she was three months old, Kasey and her three-year-old brother Nash moved with their parents to the Nullarbor Plain, in Central Australia. They would spend eight months of the year there where her father earned a living by catching rabbits and foxes that were the bane of poultry farms, then selling the hides. During the hot months, they would move to a fishing village in South Australia. While at Nullarbor, the Chambers home schooled their children and taught them American folk and country music by the likes of the Carter Family, Hank Williams and Jimmy Rogers, as well as Australian country music by artists like Slim Dusty and Tex Morton.

In 1986, the Chambers family moved to Southend on Australia's southern coast so they could pursue a music career. They started to play in local pubs as the Dead Ringer Band and when she turned 14, Kasey joined the band as lead singer. Their debut album “Red Desert Sky”, released in 1993 had Kasey's first recorded songwriting effort. In 1995, their second album “Home Fires” featured the single “Australian Son” which climbed to the top of the country charts. That same year, the Dead Ringer Band won a Golden Guitar for Band of the Year. The Next year, “Australian Son” won for them an ARIA Award and a Mo Award for Best Country Music Group.

After getting two ARIA Awards and seven Golden Guitars, the group disbanded in 1998 when Bill and Diane separated. Taking over the band under a contract with EMI Australia, Kasey recorded her solo album “The Captain” in 1998, with her brother Nash as the producer and Bill playing the guitar. To the original recording done in Australia, additional recording was done in Nashville where American musicians Judy and Buddy Miller provided vocal and instrumental support.

The release won the ARIA Award for Best Country Album and for Kasey the award for Best Female Artist. Going on a tour of the United States to promote “The Captain”, Kasey developed a strong network in the music industry there and broadened her appeal with a her well-applauded performance on The Late Show with David Letterman. She also performed at the South by Southwest Music Conference in Austin, Texas and at Fan Fair in Nashville.

In 2002, Kasey released her second album “Barricades & Brickwalls” which earned for her the distinction of being the first Australian to have a single and an album in the No. 1 position simultaneously. More albums, hits and awards followed in quick succession.

Still within the family, in 2008 Kasey and her husband Shane Nicholson got together on the Rattlin' Bones album which won an ARIA Award for Best Country Release and 5 Golden Guitars the year after. In 2009, the couple performed with Troy Cassar-Daley at the rock concert Sound Release to gather support for the Victoria Bushfire Crisis fund.