Cassie Henderson first reached Kiwi ears at age 14, when she made it all the way to the X-Factor quarterfinal.

Fast forward 11 years and it’s been a big year for the Kiwi singer, returning to the music scene in a big way.

Henderson quit her job last year in favour of pursuing music full time.

She’s released a couple of EPs, and her latest, ‘The Yellow Chapter’, marks the midpoint of Henderson’s ‘The Chronicles of a Heart Broken’ trilogy.

The lead single ‘Seconds to Midnight’ has dominated the airwaves, holding the #1 position for nine consecutive weeks.

Henderson told Heather du Plessis-Allan that while she was able to juggle both her career in marketing and her music, the progress she made after quitting her job was extreme in comparison.

“I think I can do both, and I enjoy both,” she said.

“But I think I reached a point where I was like, I don’t want the rest of my life to be a marketing manager or a marketing assistant.”

“I need to chase this story.”

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