BECCA
@beccaandlacountry
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Los Angeles, CA USA
Joined Nov 11, 2008
Growing up in Thousand Oaks, California, Becca Hennesy never realized that music should be categorized or pigeonholed. Otherwise she would have known that her favorite singers - Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline, Dolly Parton, even Kenny Rogers - were considered country artists. Mainstream, COUNTRY artists, and they fit nicely on the radio right next to The Eagles, Jackson Browne and Linda Ronstadt.
What Becca did know was that those artists were singing honest music straight from the heart. What she heard on her radio station was simply great music. "I grew up listening to what I thought was really cool music," says Becca. "I didn't realize it was what is considered country. It wasn't until I got out in the real world that I discovered there was a label for what I was listening to."
Becca's brand of LA Country draws from a deep well of those early influences on her debut release for Nari Records, simply titled Becca. "I had been singing R&B in different clubs around town," she recalls. "Something just didn't feel quite right though. I mean, I love that style, but it just wasn't me."
So when Becca met producer/manager Rick Francisco, everything just clicked. "Rick and I shared a vision," she explains. Rick knew the songs that worked, and it was just magic."
"We wanted to bring back the warmth and soul of country music, but didn't want to lose the excitement of today's country music and its' expanding fan base," Francisco says. "We didn't want to record old coun
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