Rising pop/country artist, Chelsea Berman, who grew up on the Central Coast, will play at The Joker and Thief at Terrigal on Thursday, May 18, before she heads to Nashville for the first time.
She started performing at the age of eight and now 23, she has developed into an accomplished recording artist.
Berman’s debut EP release Better Than Ever, released in 2018, achieved the iTunes Country Album #4 chart spot.
It was both the highest placed Australian and female artist release on the day it came out.
Over the next 12 months, Berman performed with ARIA chart-toppers including Travis Collins, Kirsty Lee Akers, The Viper Creek Band, Melanie Dyer and Brad Cox.
She also cracked the festival circuit, performing at the Gympie Music Muster, Country at the Camp, Central Coast Country Music Festival and the Groundwater Country Music Festival.
A dedicated songwriter, she has co-written with top Nashville talent including Phil Barton and Jason Duke, as well as Aussie stars Kirsty Lee Akers, Troy Kemp, Melanie Dyer and Matt Scullion over the past three years.
Berman has also signed a publishing deal, inking an agreement with Kobalt Music.
In January 2019, she became a Toyota Star Maker finalist at the Tamworth Country Music Festival.
Hot on the heels of this achievement, her fan favourite single, Kiss Me Like You Miss Me, was released and – it has now seen over 100,000 streams combined and was added to the New Music Nashville playlist.
In 2020, despite the restrictions of lockdown, Berman released her new sassy single, Can You Just Not, which was quickly added to Triple M Country, Kix Country and to high rotation on CMT.
The single made its way to the top 20 on KIX Country and was added to Apple Music’s flagship playlist Today’s Country, where it is one of only a handful of Australian songs.
The start of 2021 saw Berman release her newest EP, Can You Just Not, which quickly rose to the #1 spot on the Itunes Country chart, and was chosen as the featured album on ABC Country.
The same year she released the party track, Tastes Like a Hangover, which has amassed over 120,000 Spotify streams and was added to various playlists across Spotify and Apple Music including Country Chill and Today’s Country.
In 2022 Berman released her single, Break Up With A Friend, which was added to the Fresh Country playlist on Spotify and has had over 200,000 Spotify streams.
She toured with fellow musician Jake Davey on the Fresh Country tour, performing sold out shows across the East Coast of NSW.
This year started off strong with her newest release, Going There, hitting the airwaves and starting her crossover into the pop genre, landing on the Spotify playlist Pop n Fresh.
Her next single, Where Does That Leave Me, is due to drop at the end this month and in June she will head to Nashville for the first time and start writing for her next releases.
The May 18 show at The Joker and Thief kicks off at 7pm.
Source:
Rock This Country & RTC Records