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It comes as no surprise that Cherote's captivating, poetic artistry has made her an award winning songwriter. At 25, she wrote and recorded a four-track EP and entered it in to a national songwriting competition, which saw her win Australian Singer-Songwriter of the Year and Unsigned Artist of the Year. This catapulted her to Los Angeles where she was introduced to illustrious record producer and founder of Interscope Records; Jimmy Iovine, who described her voice as a “a bunch of nostalgic threads, Stevie Nicks in her early years.” Reminiscent of Scott Walker, Leonard Cohen, and Nico, Cherote's music has earned her opportunities to work with major record labels, although she withdrew for fear of feeling "emotionally unqualified." She explains "I wanted to deepen my songwriting with life experience, in my own time." After taking time to travel, sing her songs at open mic nights in NYC, live in an off-the-grid cabin and raise twenty thousand dollars through crowd funding for her