Cassie Davis - Biography

Biography

Cassie Maree Davis (born 5 August 1986 in Gnangara, Western Australia) is the second child of a family of four, her father, Steven, is a pastor in Perth. Davis' parents introduced her to music.

My dad would always put instruments in my hands and encourage me to play music. He pretty much taught me how to sing, and when I was eight my parents bought me my first guitar. I had played piano before that, but it was when I got my guitar that I started to be become creative. I taught myself to play and started writing songs. —Cassie Davis

Davis recorded her first songs on her home computer at age twelve. In 1999 she did work experience at a local recording studio for three years and learnt how to use mics, song arranging, basic producing and how to make a good recording. Davis then enrolled at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), where she studied sound engineering and production. In 2003 she travelled to the United States, accompanied by her elder sister, Emma, who handles the business side of their label, 12 Stones.

Emma and I started going back and forth between Australia and New York from the end of 2003. We were songwriting and knocking on doors. Looking back we were so naive to go there and think that we could make it. But all opportunities have come from us stepping out on a limb —Cassie Davis

. Her younger brother, Joseph, plays guitar in her band.

Davis wrote and recorded the majority of her album independently. She also worked with producer Printz Board, producer Rodney Jerkins and songwriter/producer Wayne Wilkins who has already brought her in to work on a number of writing and production projects.

In a 2009 article in Rolling Stone Australia she describes herself as

I'm like a bitzer. I never wanted to be 'an artist', I always wanted to be known as 'a producer' or 'a writer' as well. —Cassie Davis