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- Kuroshitsuji – Black Butler
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Mega-hit Anime series, “Kuroshitsuji – Black Butler” DVD is now available in the U.S., featuring BECCA’s “I’m ALIVE!” as the ending theme song!
www.funimation.com/blackbutler/
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- I love The Voice! I wish Cee Lo was mine
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- Portlandia is like a way more relatable version of Tim and Eric. I kind of love it...
About Becca
Portland, OR native, who was singing before she learned to walk, Becca’s list of accomplishments include being discovered by Meredith Brooks and becoming a multi-media star in Japan, all while she was still a teenager.
Becca’s proven equally adept at belting out full-throttle, female empowering rockers like “Better Off Alone,” “Without You” and “Make You Mad” as she is crooning big arena-sized power ballads such as “Lose You Now” and “Falling Down.”
The 21-year-old shows a maturity far beyond her years on songs like “I’m Alive!,” her vow to live life to the fullest in the wake of the premature death of a friend, and “Turn Up the Stereo,” a cautionary tale to her peers about the dead-end offered by non-stop partying.
“This is something I’ve always dreamed of doing,” says Becca, who first picked up the guitar at 10 to accompany herself, and by 14 was writing with fellow Oregonian Meredith Brooks, who had hits herself with such songs as “Bitch” and “What Would Happen.”
Signing with Sony Music Japan in 2008, Becca released her first album, Alive!!, and began a string of personal appearances, including an in-store at Tower Records. Two of the album’s songs, “Guilty Pleasure” and “Falling Down,” were used as the beginning and end themes to the anime series, Ultraviolet: Code 044, which also featured Becca’s voice as the show’s title character. Her song “Perfect Me,” was used on the hit stateside cable TV series Damages, starring Glenn Close. The single off her album “I’m Alive” has become the theme song for hit anime series “Black Butler” which was just released on DVD in the US on January 11th. Her success in the anime world got her an invite to perform at Otakon 2009 in Boston where she also hosted her own panel.
Growing up as the youngest of five in a family steeped in musicality on her father’s side, Becca admits, “Music has been a part of my life before I could even talk,” entering any talent competition, appearing in every musical theatre production she could find. Her earliest influences were female rockers like Cyndi Lauper, Joan Jett, Heart, Shirley Manson, Alanis Morissette, and Norwegian all-girl band The Tuesdays. Among her male influences are Steven Tyler and newer rock bands like Killswitch Engage, Blue October, Muse and Incubus which influence her energetic stage performance.
“Being on-stage, I get to be the person I’ve always wanted to be,” she says. “I get to front a band, run around without a care in the world. I love entertaining people. I want my live show to be incredible, so it’s something I always work hard to improve. It’s important to stand out.”
In March of 2010, she debuted her first album in the US and spent the spring touring acoustically. She met up with her band at SXSW where she received praise from her audiences for her breathtaking live performances. She spent the summer performing at Warped Tour on the Ernie Ball stage.
Also in 2010, she released a collaboration album with well-known Japanese urban/pop act Bennie K. Together they formed Bennie Becca, and their first single “Dreamer” reached number 1 on Tokyo’s most well known radio station, Tokyo FM. The success from this album led to invitations to perform at domestic summer festival Rock in Japan as well as the internationally known Summer Sonic, which Becca had performed at before in 2008.
On March 2nd 2011 she released her fourth album “Best” in Japan which includes a compilation of her best work so far as well as her collaboration as Bennie Becca. She has been in the studio working to produce her next release, working with producers and writers such as Evan Taubenfeld (Avril Lavigne), Dave Darling (Tom Waits), and Tony Fagenson (Eve 6) to name a few. She says: “As wonderful and unique as my experiences in Japan have been, I am now ready to focus all my energy into creating some new and exciting music in America. My best work has only just begun.”
Becca’s also aware of her position as a role model to women her age, and offers some sage advice to her peers on songs like “Better Off Alone,” about a controlling partner, “Turn to Stone,” a plea to be strong, and “Perfect Me,” dealing with a partner’s unrealistic expectations, though she’s equally prone to vent on “Make You Mad” or switch the sexual tables in “Guilty Pleasure.”
“Girls usually allow guys to be the aggressors in social situations,” she says. “’Guilty Pleasure’ is about having a passion for someone that’s so strong, all the rules of society no longer apply. You just go for what you want.”
Becca is applying that same “go-for-it” philosophy as she tackles the American market.
“Japan is very different from the States, especially when it comes to the music business,” she acknowledges. “ I’m just excited to be able to show everybody here what I’ve been up to.”
With the U.S. release of Alive!!, American audiences will now find out what Japanese fans have already discovered. Becca is the real deal in any country.
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