Jessie Che

Finalist – Top 10 – World Songwriting Awards – Modern Country Song (Winter 2025) 

Spaces began with a haunting musical sketch and concept from my longtime co-writing friend, Mark Drilling. There was a stillness in it that spoke volumes and…

Winner - SCALA, Festival of Origial Music - (Lyrics Category)

The concept for My Rain began with the chorus whilst I was doing some songwriting professional development with one of my favorite teachers, the fabulous Keppie Coutts. If you want…

Semi-Finalist - Unsigned Only 2024 (Singer/Songwriter - Folk Category)

Ghosts was written on a cold dark night, as I sat in solitude by my fire, quietly taking stock of the sad situation modern dating has become. Gently strumming minor chords…

Semi-Finalist 2024 - Tamworth Songwriters Awards

Semi-Finalist 2023 - International Songwriting Competition (FilmClip-Category)

I wrote the lyrics to this song more than a few years ago, when I was a younger woman first navigating the (now) familiar seas of love…

3rd Place - International Songwriting Competition (Lyrics Category)

Semi-Finalist - Unsigned Only 2023 (Singer/Songwriter - Folk Category)

I wrote this song on New Years day, 2022. I'd just logged off from a live stream by two amazing songwriters I admire…

Top Four - American Songwriter, March/April 2023 Lyrics Contest  

I'm a collector of words and images from the world around me, I use the things I collect in my mind to write songs, I love telling stories. Sometimes I get…

Finalist - JCMA, for songs written about South Australia 

This song was another written whilst I was participating in a song writing group that the wonderful Keppie Coutts hosts, (if you would like to find out more, please check out …

Winner - SCALA, Festival of Origial Music - (Lyrics Category)

This song was written whilst I was participating in a song writing group that the wonderful Keppie Coutts hosts, (if you would like to find out more, please check out …

Semi-finalist - International Songwriting Competition (Lyrics Category)

'Waiting Line'  was written to capture the story of those who, in the earliest days of the pandemic, faced the unknown as they waited for lifesaving treatment for another illness starting with ‘C’…

Winner - International Acoustic Music Awards, IAMA (Bluegrass/Country category) 

Winner - SA APRA Country Song of the Year 

Top 20 CMC Chart  

I wrote this when I had the privilege of being part of the CMAA College of Country…