Becca Stevens

NY City-based singer/songwriter Becca Stevens is definitely a classically trained guitarist and vocalist having a bent toward composing her own special jazz, folk, and pop-infused tracks. A indigenous of Winston-Salem, NEW YORK, Stevens was initially released to music via her composer/multi-instrumentalist dad and opera vocalist mom, with whom she performed in a family group music group. By her teenagers, Stevens was learning classical acoustic guitar and carrying out jazz specifications and Appalachian folk music in regional clubs. After senior high school, she additional honed her abilities while majoring in traditional guitar in the North Carolina College from the Arts, and later on, making her BFA in vocal jazz and structure from the brand new College for Jazz and Modern Music in NEW YORK. Not only a single musician, Stevens’ adept jazz and folk abilities have present her performing using a bevy of name performers, including drummer Eric Harland, pianist Brad Mehldau, vocalist José Adam, guitarist Lionel Loueke, among others. In 2008 she released her debut single record, Tea Bye Ocean, which showcased her unconventional, stylistically ambitious method of pop songwriting. Her 2011 follow-up, Weightless, included a visitor appearance from vocalist Gretchen Parlato, and discovered Stevens additional expanding her audio with motivated reworkings of music by Pet Collective and Iron & Wines. In 2015 Stevens shipped her third full-length record, Perfect Pet, which featured creation from Scott Solter (St. Vincent, Spoon) and included addresses of music by Frank Sea, Usher, and Steve Winwood.