In 2013, she won the Toyota Star Maker award in Australia making her the first New Zealand-born artist to win since Keith Urban in 1990.
The song went on to reach #12 on the US Billboard chart and was a certified Gold record in Australia and New Zealand.
[3] Bell won the NZ Gold Guitar Award at age 18 and moved to Australia four years later to pursue a career in country music.
[2] In 2013, she won the prestigious Toyota Star Maker award, which led to her releasing the single "Pieces" with fellow Australasian, Jared Porter.
[5][6][2] Bell independently released her debut studio album, Heart First, in 2013 that included her first solo single of the same name.
Bell started reaching career highs on the Australia country music charts with the release of her singles "One More Shot", "Who I Am", "Keith", and "Wasted on You" in 2018 and 2019; these songs and "Getting Closer" were later repackaged as The Red EP in 2021.
Bell was chosen as the face for Spotify's EQUAL global programme for Female Artists in Music where she was featured on a billboard in Times Square, New York, USA.