Bec Hance is a singer/songwriter who comes from a town in Gippsland, Victoria called “Lang Lang” where she spent the first 19 years of her life on the family generational farm.
Her interest in music began at 10 years old, when she learnt to play the piano, and in the later years taught herself guitar, studied music theory and has written a swag of her own songs.
Bec’s interest in country music was derived from her upbringing to traditional country music influenced by Slim Dusty, Shirley Thoms, John Williamson, Loretta Lynn and Johnny Horton. Her modern influences today include Sara Storer, Troy Cassar-Daley, Graeme Connors and Norma O’Hara Murphy.
Whilst studying at university in Melbourne, Bec worked at a singing school teaching piano and studied vocal training. This is where she began her country music venture.
Since then, Bec has released two independent albums, all with solely written and co-written songs.
Her second album “The Tranquillity” was released in June 2009 which was produced and recorded by Chris Wilson in Melbourne.
Bec was a Toyota Star Maker Grand – finalist, and a graduate of the CMAA country music college in Tamworth 2009.
Bec has been nominated and won various country music and songwriting awards, the most recent being a TSA (Tamworth Songwriters Association) award in 2010 for best new songwriter with co-writer Vaughan Baker for the song “Just Add Water”. The album also saw her nominated in 4 sections of the same awards. Bec also picked up the Barry Thornton Encouragement Award at the Bungendore Country Muster this year.
She is a proud Australian and displays that in her own songs
as well as her performance where she is bound to get feet tapping and hearts breaking. As well as that, she is an established singer and musician, and shows variety in her performance from yodelling, to playing harmonica and having a laugh.
Although she’s lived in NSW and QLD, she now is back in VIC living right next to the Goulburn River, working as a paramedic in Murchison. She enjoys fishing and horse riding in her days off as well as persuing her career and travelling around Australia as a country music artist.