She funded that recording with the money she made busking on the streets of Tamworth, New South Wales.
[1] In 2007, at the age of 18, Akers won the Star Maker Award at the Tamworth Country Music Festival and signed her first record deal and released her debut studio album, Little Things the same year.
Her third album Naked was released in April 2011 and was nominated for 3 Golden Guitar Awards - Best Female Artist, Best Music Video, and Best Vocal Collaboration.
[3] In 2021, Akers competed on the seventeenth season of television series The Block with her husband Jesse Anderson.
[2] In April 2022, Akers released her sixth studio album, and first on her own label, Rider Records, which she launched in 2021 with husband Jesse Anderson and manager Perrin Finlay-Brown.