A viral moment with Keith Urban changed her life. Now she’s one of country’s brightest stars

Kaylee Bell had heard that people were saying that a song could change your life ”, but the 35 -year -old country artist wasn’t until he really came to him because he really understood what he meant.

A childhood spent on Waime, a small town on the southern island of New Zealand, a childhood – two hours everywhere; two hours to Queenstown, two hours to Christchurch ” – singing with a local teacher and talent with his brothers on weekends. Bell was giggling in bars from the age of 14, but when he won the National Golden Guitar Award at the age of 18 – he said, ı The youngest one you can win – he was first subjected to the reality of a career as a country artist.

“I really had McClymonts and Morgan Evans – their own groups and they were traveling all year – ‘This could happen… But I thought I should move to Australia.” Both artists would eventually invite Kaylee to participate in stable tour programs, but he was an artist he hadn’t met yet and did not inspire the song that would change his life.

Idea KeithA song that gave tribute to the spirit and songs of our Nicole’s husband sat on Bell’s phone for two years before taking the courage to realize. “Many people told me that it was a career suicide. And that’s why I have continued for a long time.

After releasing Keith In 2019, Bell as a single, the song is always “for something bigger than the platform [she] He could give it at that time. As an independent artist. Two years later, Bell was stuck in another solid locking without the expectations of tour on the horizon.

Im I could feel that my mental health was actively shifting. And ‘I need to take back some control, so I will say yes, no matter what the next thing that enters my life, no matter what the next week. Sound The audition says it is open. “

The rest is history. Urban was a coach and Bell’s blind selections, first hit the buzzer to rotate his chair. “After Keith returned, in the body tongue, it was like a weight from my shoulders, and I could only enjoy it. It could not be written. I could not plan that moment at all.”

In its new album Cowboy upBell returns to another formalist artist’s first hearing his music. Shahania song He watched his journey as a songwriter for honoring the Queen of Canada: “He showed me that I could be a mother, I could be the same damn time on the cover, I could be a rock star on the cover, Country Music Lover / Yes, he showed me what it looks like.”

When I asked what Twain represented him, Bell replied: “Everything. Everything was thirty when he had success, and he had his first record. I am any man. It was really big, but it was like that I’m not ready. I need another record so that I can play one and a half hours of my own songs. He brought his group together, and when they were ready to set out for months, they rehearsed to the point where they could run around a stadium that stole their songs. “

If it seems to have memorized Bell Twain’s biography, there is a reason. “I read your book [2011’s From This Moment On] Every year, ”he says. I got most of his ideas and applied to what we did with a live show. And only the fact that it is actually considered a stranger in Nashville. It was Canadian and I get this feeling when I was in America. “

It is not a secret that the country’s establishment does not eagerly open its doors to foreigners. When artists like Taylor Swift start in Nashville, they are seen as screams when they spread their pop wings. Beyoncé’s country performance Father Lessons He was dismissed sloppy, as a personal challenge to prove that he had the right to play this type – and won the Grammy of the album of the year for his efforts.

“I think Nashville is one of the very protective towns, so it is much more difficult to get inside when you are outside, Bell says Bell. He pushed because there was no emergency relative and tried not to be encouraged. “Nashville calls ’10 -year -old town ‘for a reason: You should go and pay their dues. I have been going since 2010 and I still build my circles and crew.

Bell was producing the piece of head and the first single Cowboy up He’s pregnant when he finds out. He and his partner, Nick, believed that after “great health problems ,, such as endometriosis, chronic fatigue and peritonitis – he could not have children. He had been going on since the age of 16. “Many things that have not been identified,“ Basically, only being in hospital and outside, being only in hospital and outside, being in hospital and outside, tests, tests, tests, only where it is, only, tests. The question of whether there was no mother felt as he had answered his body.

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Cowboy up It was ‘first’ and all the other songs in this new album were written in Bell that emotional and mental field ‘After’. Heartbeat The record is the result of the tender and it was written immediately after seeing that these two blue lines appear in the pregnancy test. “The journey of recording was about being in a head gap like ‘Oh my God, my life is about to change’. Shahania songIt was almost like writing to encourage myself. I knew I wanted to continue to make music and to be a mother, but what does that look like? “

Baby James is now seven months old and already has a large number of airlines. There was no question about whether there would be a tour of the baby, and while performing the biggest dates in the Australian Country music calendar, he joined his mother on the road: CMC Rocks, Gympie Muster, Deni Ute Muster and Strummingbird.

Despite being the highest billing female artist at every festival on the eve of his fourth album and signed with a large US administration team, he realized that Bell had a change in tons of change when he discussed his career since they were parents. “I did not make any excuse for myself this year. I pump a single every six weeks, everything, and I feel like I was still all that much, ‘No problem, this year you live a baby’,” he says, it imitates a gentle, despise tone to appease the invisible concerns about productivity. “I didn’t slow down. I was as busy as I was. Very crazy.”

He put a new reason in the plus signs: to defend mothers in music and to make the stage a place where parents of working parents belong. A kind of effort to see that he has followed the leadership of a future national star and that he has written his own tribute to Kaylee Bell in the coming years.

Cowboy up Now it’s out. Kaylee Bell took the stage at the Deniquin in Deniliquin on October 3, and on November 1 at Strummingbird in Newcastle.