2024 TOYOTA STAR MAKER

TOURING NOVEMBER -DECEMBER 24
New Single "CHEMISTRY" Out Now

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THE DRIFTER TOUR

Touring November - December 2024
VIC-NSW-QLD
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CHEMISTRY

Chemistry, the new single OUT NOW.
It follows Wade’s thought provoking Off The Drugs release, both singles beautifully produced by Simon Johnson at his Hillbilly Hut Studio on the Central Coast.

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THE RIDE

In January 2024, I was honoured to be chosen as the 44th winner of Toyota Star Maker - Australia's most prestigious country music competition.

This year will be filled with incredible opportunity and amazing experiences.
Time to bear down and hold on... this will be the ride of my life.

I can't wait and I don't want to miss a second, join me...
let's take this ride together!!

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Wade Forster Star Maker 2024

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My 2 great loves, country music and rodeo.

What a blessed life I am living, where I get to combine them both.

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CHEMISTRY

Wade wrote the song on his way back from Tamworth after winning Star Maker after being ghosted by a girl. He started seeing her around and wondered if they ‘ever had Chemistry’. Produced by Jeremy Minett from Eyes + Ears Creative.


TOYOTA STAR MAKER

Re-Live that amazing night in January at the Tamworth Country Music Festival, when I was named Winner of the 2024 Toyota Star Maker, I am still pinching myself. Check out the big moment and a song after.

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Groundwater CMF

I have some really sad news. Unfortunately I am unable to attend and perform at Groundwater Country Music Festival on the beautiful Gold Coast from the 18-20 October.
I was so looking forward to heading to this amazing festival, but a scheduling conflict has meant I just can't get there. Fingers crossed for next year!!

But, you absolutely should go, it is one the best country music events in Australia, so head over the the Groundwater website and get all the info.


https://groundwatercmf.com/


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MY STORY

In January 2024, Australian rodeo cowboy and country music artist Wade Forster became the 44th winner of Toyota Star Maker - Australia's most prestigious country music competition.

Born in outback Queensland, Wade was raised on both a cowboy lifestyle and country music.

He would often sing along to songs while travelling around the professional rodeo circuit and was praised for having a good voice but didn't pursue music until later in his life.

In 2017, he left his hometown of Winton to pursue a career opportunity in refrigeration in Mount Isa then bought his first guitar from Facebook for $50 and spent his free time learning how to play. By the end of his time in Mount Isa, he was playing for people at rodeos and Facebook viewers.

In August 2023, US artist Cody Johnson, was set to tour with US superstar Luke Combs, when Johnson told the media he wanted to win a buckle at an Australian rodeo. Wade reached out on social media and invited Cody to the Queensland rodeo circuit and a few days later they were riding alongside each other in the team roping and steer wrestling at a Townsville rodeo.

Cody returned the invitation for Wade to perform with him at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne and played in front of 25,000 Luke Combs' fans. Wade said, "I'm not afraid of the bright lights, but I didn't think anyone would know me.
People think I'm from America and when they said my name I had shivers down my body."

He's been influenced by American artists like Dwight Yoakam, George Jones, Tom T Hall and Tyler Childers.

In 2021, he released a cover of a Tyler Childers' song Oneida online and he realised music might be more than a hobby, after gaining a lot of attention, and listeners asking for original songs.

He invested his pay and recorded a country album, The Beginning, at Simon Johnson's Hillbilly Hut Studio and began building a fanbase of national and international cowboys and cowgirls, using streaming services.

In January 2023, Wade attended the Tamworth Country Music Festival for the first time where he participated in and graduated from The Senior Academy of Country Music. He had a goal to return and make the top 10 of Toyota Star Maker - he made it happen.

Whilst fairly new to the country music scene, Wade is playing at gigs and rodeos in and around Western Queensland and has played at Winton's Way-Out West festival, and at the 2023 Savannah In The Round in Mareeba, in Far North Queensland.

With the demand online and listeners eagerly wanting more, Wade has a lot more music yet to be released. His passion for music and rodeo inspires his writing process and will continue to influence his desire to succeed in both rodeo and the music industry.

Following his performance in Star Maker, his song Rodeo Romeo, which he performed at the grand final, has been released to radio.

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