Becca Stevens

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Becca Stevens at the Moers Festival 2016

Becca Stevens (born June 14, 1984 in Winston-Salem , North Carolina ) is an American folk and jazz musician ( vocals , guitar , ukulele , charango ) and songwriter .

Live and act

Stevens attended the North Carolina School of the Arts, where she had lessons in classical guitar playing; she also performed with the family band Tune Mammals . After graduating in 2002, she studied at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York. There she obtained a bachelor's degree in jazz singing and composition. She worked u. a. on recordings by Travis Sullivan's Bjorkestra ( Enjoy! 2008), Taylor Eigsti ( Daylight at Midnight 2010), Esperanza Spalding ( Radio Music Society 2012), José James ( While You Were Sleeping 2014) andAmbrose Akinmusire ( The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint 2014) and so far (2019) has released four albums under his own name. Music critic Ted Gioia included her second album Weightless in his list of the best albums of 2011. In addition to her own band, she runs the vocal trio Tillery (with Rebecca Martin and Gretchen Parlato ) , which released an album of the same name in 2016.

She has also worked with Aaron Parks , Taylor Eigsti , Jeremy Pelt , Logan Richardson , Dayna Stephens and David Crosby . Stevens lives in New York. In the field of jazz, she was involved in 25 recording sessions between 2006 and 2018. In 2017 she was the "Rising Star Female Vocalist" in Down Beat .

Discographic notes

  • Becca Stevens Band: Tea Bye Sea (Independent, 2008), with Colin Killalea, Liam Robinson, Chris Tordini, Tommy Crane
  • Becca Stevens Band: Weightless ( Sunnyside Records , 2011), with Chris Tordini , Jordan Perlson , Larry Campbell
  • Perfect Animal (Universal, 2015)
  • Regina (GroundUP Music, 2017)
  • Wonderbloom (GroundUP Music, 2020)

on records from other artists:

Web links

Commons : Becca Stevens  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website of the Melodia Women's Choir ( Memento from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Amy Poehler: Smart Girls in the Arts ( Memento from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Ted Gioia: The 100 Best Albums of 2011
  4. ↑ Tillery
  5. ^ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography
  6. ↑ meeting
personal data
SURNAME Stevens, Becca
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American folk and jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Winston-Salem , United States