Kaylee Bell - ‘The Belle of the Ball’ and an inspiration to independent artists
She is the ‘Belle of the Ball’ A young Kiwi singer song-writer who has gone from strength to strength. Taking her music from New Zealand to the world and the world is taken with her.
Kaylee is a New Zealand singer-songwriter. In 2013, winning the Toyota Star Maker award in Australia, making her the first New Zealand-born artist to win since Keith Urban in 1990.
Kaylee's debut studio album, Heart First, later that year. Placing multiple singles in the Top 10 of the Australian Country Music Charts.
Kaylee is currently the 'Most Streamed Female Country Artist' in Australia. Her second album, Silver Linings was released in November 2021.
Kaylee Bell opened for Brad Paisley on his World Tour NZ show late 2022 alongside Australian country singer Morgan Evans and was support act for Ed Sheeran on his Mathematics World Tour in 2023. This was followed by her first major independent tour of New Zealand.
In 2016 Bell released her breakout single "Getting Closer" a break-up anthem written with Morgan Evans, that charted on the New Zealand Heatseekers singles chart. Bell started reaching career highs on the Australia country music charts with the release of her singles "One More Shot", "Who I Am", "Keith", and "Wasted on You" in 2018 and 2019; these songs and "Getting Closer" were later repackaged as The Red EP in 2021. Bell's tribute to Keith Urban, 'Keith' went to #1 on The Music Network Country Chart where it spent 25 weeks on the chart. Three further one-off singles were released in 2020: "Light On", "Home", and "Be With You". In 2021, Bell released three collaborative singles "That Summer" with Josh Mirenda or Lepnani, "Before I Met You" with The McClymonts, and "Living Free" with Lindsay Ell, and announced that her second studio album, Silver Linings, would be released November 26, 2021. 'That Summer' featuring Kiwi Pop Artist Lepani had crossover success at NZ mainstream radio in 2021 being 'the most added single to radio' for the month of May on hard hitters ZM, More Fm and The Hits.'
Bell was chosen as the face for Spotify's EQUAL global programme for Female Artists in Music where she was featured on a billboard in Times Square, New York, USA.
In 2022, she auditioned for The Voice Australia and all four coaches turned for her. After Keith Urban was blocked, she chose to join Jessica Mauboy's team. She was eliminated in the battle rounds.
However he brilliant song written about Keith Urban using titles of his hit songs in the lyric would carry her to a level of success not seen in a New Zealand Country Artist and indeed put country music on the map
In May/June Kaylee completed her first highly successful theatre tour of New Zealand selling over 7,000 tickets along the way.
In June 2023, Bell became the first independent Australasian female country singer to receive a gold certified single or EP, with The Red EP.
In 2023 Kaylee was awarded a CMA Award
In January 2024 Kaylee was awarded a Gold Guitar for Female artist of the year
Discover this amazing young New Zealand artist, making global waves
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