CHELSEA JADE - New Zealand 2021 tour with Deryk

Dear All,
These announcement broadcasts usually take a familiar shape on my end - in an nth hour harried state, I comb through my last and oft-neglected bio screed and recalibrate it as if I’m a deeply impressed (!) third party narrator. While I understand the utility, I have to be honest, it never feels quite right!

So, little theatrics aside, I spent the lion’s share of 2020 in my Los Angeles apartment hunkering down ad infinitum. All tours canceled, everything in flux. I’m sure you’ve seen the news. Still, golden moments showed up in little ways. Getting lovely notes from Bandcamp Friday patrons, cleaning my apartment to that incredible Jessie Ware record and frankly, being invited to play in my hometown this year. I'm grateful to have made it through. It's an immense privilege to be in a space where music can exist as viscerally as it was intended to be and I would be deeply honored if you would join me for these shows.

Your emotional wreck forever,
Chelsea Jade

P.s - I guess I almost finished a new record too.

Banished Music & Under The Radar presents

CHELSEA JADE - NZ TOUR 2021
with special guest DERYK
24th February - Hamilton Gardens Arts Festival** 
March 17th - Auckland Arts Festival*** 
March 19th - Meow, Wellington* 
March 20th - Paisley Stage, Napier* 
March 26 - Blue Smoke, Christchurch* 
March 27 - Dive, Dunedin* 

*Tickets on sale from Banished Music, 9am Monday 18th January
**Tickets on sale now from HGAF
***Tickets on sale now from AAF



BIO
Captivating, Los Angeles-based performance artist and singer songwriter, Chelsea Jade, returns to New Zealand this summer for 8 shows, including festival performances at the Big Gay Out, Hamilton Garden Arts Festival, Auckland Arts Festival and Peachy Keen

With a focus on literate lyricism, Chelsea Jade harnesses an art school approach through her low impact, high drama vocal performance and lateral visual sensibilities. In short, Chelsea immediately captivates. Her critically acclaimed debut album Personal Best featured the singles 'Low Brow', 'Life of the Party', 'Ride or Cry', 'High Beam' and 'Laugh It Off'.

Born in Cape Town, South Africa and raised in New Zealand, she began as a dancer and gravitated towards music early on, falling in love with the conversation between the ballet pianist and her own movement.

Eventually being caught between the high concept world of art school and a romance with the immediacy of pop music, Chelsea abandoned her studies in the middle of exams and fled to New York for a series of writing sessions with Justyn Pilbrow (The Neighbourhood).

A fan-girl encounter with producer Dre Skull in a Tokyo elevator lead Chelsea to realize that the US was the pop mecca she had been dreaming of and in late 2015, she relocated to the east-side of Los Angeles.

The multiple APRA NZ Silver Scroll Award nominee is known for delivering outstanding, relatable pop that rewards your brain and propels you towards the dance floor.