"Beccy Owen is a Welsh born, Tyne and Wear dwelling songwriter of exception… Read Full Bio ↴"Beccy Owen is a Welsh born, Tyne and Wear dwelling songwriter of exceptional emotional resonance. Critically acclaimed and fanatically adored, Beccy's rich organic talent trades in the currency of bleary-eyed pain, yearning hope and chest-beating defiance. These are songs infused with the prettiest of whispered promises, yet lacquered with the kind of aching voracity that burrows unswervingly through ear canals, down and down further still, ultimately basking in the warm glow of glistening innards - the dark parts where the warmest blood flows - where they nest and distend and restore.

Released via her Fairy Snuff imprint, Beccy's first full-length recording 'The Sweetest of Tales from the Bitterest Edge' was brought before the world in the opening months of 2002. A skeletal work of ornate beauty, this piano-based showcase of dark, heartfelt songwriting, was assembled on a shoestring budget that peaked just shy of £300; astonishing in light of its figures of 3,000 sales and rising - principally through the internet and at gigs.

The song 'Monkey' became a regular fixture on the playlists of BBC Radio 2 after Beccy shared session time alongside Elvis Costello (who is, by all accounts, a fan) for the Janice Long Show. It was a performance that quadrupled her national fan-base overnight, and left producers agape, excitedly declaring they'd never had such a response for an unsigned artist in the show's history. All this served to intimate a growing confidence and a rare, dynamic beauty tentatively beginning to bloom.

In 2004 'The Singer Kicks' was unleashed upon a public and press, greedy and impatient to have and hold new material from the rising talent. Inspired by the melodic treasure that nests between the grooves of a well-worn copy of the Beach Boys seminal work 'Pet Sounds', it is a bravely ambitious sophomore offering, incorporating the talents of over forty-guest musicians and lush, scrumptious, cloud scraping orchestral arrangements. Providing fresh stratums to an already richly textured body of work, 'The Singer Kicks' demonstrates Owen's gift for winning over the listener via a heady mix of the vernacular and the literary.

With the melancholic piano and lapping vocals continuing as mainstay, the record embraces a variety of idioms, journeying through intricately articulate swoon pop and jazz arrangements, intensely fraught rock, and stunning, barefoot balladeering. However, it's that distinctive, soaring, twisting, heart-wrapping voice that ensures Owen's music retains both its urgency and warmth, culminating in a recording that has a sophistication and intensity that befits recent comparisons in the press to Kate Bush (BBC online), Carole King (NME) and Beccy's beloved Nina Simone (Music Week), whilst at the same time bringing a devoutly special new voice to proceedings."

This description was taken from www.beccyowen.com Beccy is in the process of making a new album and will perform next at The Sage, Gateshead on 6 October 2007; this is a family concert entitled "Beccy Owen's Extreme Earth".

See also: www.myspace.com/beccyowen