BECCA

Rebecca Emily Hollcraft (born May 9, 1989 in Portland, Oregon) is an American born Japanese singer/songwriter and guitarist. Also known as Bec Hollcraft[1] and Becca-chan[2]. Early life Becca was born in Portland, Oregon on May 9, 1989. She began singing and writing songs at a young age and started playing guitar when she was 10 years old. During her school years she was very active in choir and acting. When she was 13 a family friend had recorded her at a choir event in school. The tape found its way to Meredith Brooks who had been looking for a new artist to develop. "Bec has a powerhouse voice, and when I realized she could write songs too…I was sold” said Meredith[3]. Career With the support of her parents, Becca spent her summer vacation that year in Los Angeles with Meredith working on songs for her demos. Becca’s talent soon caught the ear of radio programmers in her hometown of Portland. After some airplay on local specialty shows, Bec was soon added into full time rotation and received incredible response. Bec was also covered by local television stations, featured in The Oregonian, and was the cover story in Two Louies, Portland’s premiere music magazine. She began performing around Los Angeles under the name Bec Hollcraft, playing at clubs such as The Roxy, Troubadour, Key Club, Knitting Factory, and the House of Blues with a full band. She also performed smaller acoustic shows at places like The Derby, and The Rainbow Room. In early 2008 Becca signed a deal with Sony Music Entertainment Japan and released her single "Perfect Me" on April 9, 2008 in Japan. The song was featured on the TV show "Damages" in its Japanese release from April 2, 2008 to June 1, 2008. Becca's debut 5-song EP "Perfect Me" was released in Japan on June 4, 2008 with a second 5-song EP "Turn to Stone" released August 6, 2008. Her full-length debut album will be released later this year. Starting July 1, 2008 Becca's songs "Falling Down" and "Guilty Pleasure" will be featured as the title and theme songs of the animated series "Ultraviolet: Code 044." Becca also contributed a cover of "I Drove All Night" to a Cyndi Lauper tribute album that was released July 23, 2008[4]. Becca played both dates of the 2008 Summer Sonic festival in Osaka and Tokyo. Alive!! Becca's debut full length album "Alive!!" was released on November 5th, 2008. "I'm Alive" is the first single and was released on September 23rd, 2008 with a video. The video features various actors like a body builder, cheerleaders, BMX biker and a contortionist. It also features her playing live with a band in a mostly white room and features lots of color on her, the band, and other objects to contrast the white. Two versions of the album were released; a basic audio one with 13 audio tracks and a deluxe CD/DVD combo with the same 13 audio tracks and a 2nd DVD disc with all three of her music videos and an animated video for "Guilty Pleasure" with the "Ultraviolet: Code 044" characters. Both of the versions feature the Cyndi Lauper cover song "I Drove All Night" which she contributed to the "We Love Cyndi Lauper" tribute album in July of 2008. On October 22nd the single for "I'm Alive" was released with a bonus b-side track called "Alone" which is a cover of the song by popular 80s band Heart