Kasey Chambers has opened up about her very unusual childhood that saw her traveling around living out of a car.
Speaking with ABC Melbourne drive host Ali Moore, Kasey, 48 revealed that much of her childhood was spent traipsing around the country with her fox hunter father.
‘I grew up in the outback,’ the country star explained. ‘I spent a lot of my early childhood living around a campfire.
‘My dad was a professional fox hunter. This was back in the ’70s when that was actually a job. Thank god it’s not a job now.’
Aside from hunting foxes, Bill also helmed the iconic family musical outfit The Dead Ringer Band, which also featured wife Diane, Kasey and son Nash.
The outfit eventually disbanded in the late 1990s after Bill and Diane divorced.
For much of Kasey’s youth, the family lived a very nomadic lifestyle, living out of their car in the n desert.
‘We lived in the outback,’ she said. ‘We travelled to a different place every night, we lived out of a four-wheel drive.
Kasey Chambers has opened up about her very unusual childhood that saw her traveling around living out of a car
‘My dad had made this little caravan that we kept all our supplies in that we towed around the whole of the Nullabor Plain through South and Western .
She added that living such a transient lifestyle also meant not having ready access to supermarkets.
‘We lived completely off the land, all the food we ate was whatever my dad hunted and we cooked it all on the open fire,’ she said.
Reminiscing about her youth, Kasey added that the open campfire had played a large part in her upbringing, as well as helping to ignite her love of singing.
Speaking with ABC Melbourne drive host Ali Moore, Kasey, 48 revealed that much of her childhood was spent traipsing around the country with her fox hunter father Bill Chambers
For much of Kasey’s youth, the family lived a very nomadic lifestyle, living out of their car in the n desert
‘My mum taught us home schooling around the campfire and around the campfire is where we learnt to sing as well,’ she said.
‘That’s sort of where I found my connection with music and I just have the most beautiful fond memories.’
Being immersed in wide open spaces is something that is still a bit part of Kasey’s life, although now she explores the outback in a little more comfort.
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‘It’s still one of my favorite things to do now, is sit around a campfire even out there on the Nullabor, and play music now with my kids,’ she said.
‘I’ve got a very nice caravan now, I didn’t have to get my dad to make this one.’
Kasey has three children, eldest son Talon, 22, who she shares with ex Cori Hopper, plus son Arlo, 17, and daughter Poet, 12, with ex-husband and fellow country musician Shane Nicholson.
After picking up a lifetime achievement award at the recent n Women In Music Awards, Kasey revealed on Instagram that she was taking off to live in a caravan for the ‘rest of the month’ with current partner Brandon Dodd, 29.
Kasey rose to fame with the success of her first album The Captain in 1999 and has been a force in country music ever since.
After picking up a lifetime achievement award at the recent n Women In Music Awards, Kasey revealed on Instagram that she was taking off to live in a caravan for the ‘rest of the month’ with current partner Brandon Dodd, 29