Wade Forster doesn’t just sing country, he lives it. Born and still working on a cattle station in the Queensland outback, the professional rodeo cowboy writes from dust, sweat and long days in the saddle. In 2017 he moved to Mount Isa, taught himself guitar on a $50 marketplace beater and started posting covers between rodeo runs. He then used prize money to record his debut album The Beginning, turning a grassroots following into more than 50 million global streams and sold-out shows across Australia and the United States, a rarity for an independent Australian country artist.