Background
Chanel Cole Whalley was born in Hamilton, New Zealand, on 13 November 1977. Her middle name was given to her because of her dark, "black-as-coal" eyes. Three years after her birth, Chanel's parents divorced. She spent four years with her mother before living with her father, where she attended a total of 12 different schools in as many different towns. During this time, she learned piano, singing, ballet, flute, and guitar, as well as having acting lessons. She completed grade twelve a year in advance, eventually graduating from Gisborne Girls' High School in 1996. Soon after, Whalley became a performer on the Gisborne pub circuit, singing under the moniker of "That Girl".
Whalley left home when she was 17, had a job as a part time radio DJ, 2ZG and performed with Uknowit pub cover bands,while working in a record store Beatbox in Gisborne. She then spent a year at a jazz school in Christchurch NZ (1999) spending three years in England before heading to Australia. She traveled to Bega around her 23rd birthday so she could be closer to her mother. In June 2003 she had an article on New Zealand's anti-nuclear policy published in the New Zealand Listener. In 2004 she auditioned for the second season of the hit reality television show, Australian Idol.
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