From busking the streets of Christchurch as a kid to breaking New Zealand radio records, Cassie Henderson writes pop songs that cut straight to the heart. Her breakthrough single Whatever dominated NZ airplay for 12 consecutive weeks in 2023 - a feat not achieved by any female Kiwi artist since Lorde in 2017. She followed this with Seconds To Midnight (11:59), which held #1 for 15 consecutive weeks, equalling Lordes record and making Henderson only the second female artist in over a decade to achieve multiple 10+ week chart runs. Hendersons music explores the space between heartbreak and healing.
Through her trilogy The Chronicles of a Heart Broken, she takes listeners from the raw devastation of the Pink Chapter through the chaotic struggle of the Yellow Chapter, with the final Blue Chapter releasing later this year. Each chapter captures the stages one goes through during the aftermath of a break up captures a different stage of aftermath - from initial heartbreak flooding the system like a tidal wave to the desperate search for feeling anything amidst emotional wreckage. Whether shes delivering the anthemic punch of Whatever or the synthwave swagger of Seconds To Midnight (11:59), Henderson transforms personal pain into songs that make you want to dance, cry, and text your ex all at once.
