Rebecca Claire Hill (born 14 February 1994) is a British singer from

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, England. She rose to prominence after appearing on the

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of the then BBC (now ITV) talent contest ''

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'', auditioning with

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's " Ordinary People". She joined

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's team and reached the semi-final of the competition. On 29 June 2014 she became the first (and only thus far) ''The Voice UK'' contestant to score a UK number 1 when the song, " Gecko (Overdrive)" with Oliver Heldens topped the

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. In 2022, she received two

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nominations, including British Song of the Year for " Remember" with

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, and Best Dance Act, which she won.

Early and personal life

Becky Hill was born on 14 February 1994. She began making music at the age of 14 and started performing in a band called Shaking Trees – receiving BBC Introducing support from Andrew Marston at BBC Hereford & Worcester who selected her band to perform at the Nozstock Festival of Performing Arts, as well as a live session for Adam Green and Josh Withey at BBC Radio Shropshire. Hill is a supporter of Walsall F.C. In April 2021, she came out as queer on her Twitter account, stating "I've definitely felt uncomfortable branding myself as straight, or anything else for that matter, but queer seems to be the most fitting identity for who I am". On 11 January 2022, Hill announced her engagement via social media to her long-term boyfriend, Charlie Gardner.

Career

2012: ''The Voice''

Hill has appeared in a number of live performances for YouTube, including a web series called ''The Rebelations''. She auditioned for the

of ''

'', and at the blind auditions she performed " Ordinary People". Judges

and will.i.am, the only coaches with an available space on their teams, turned around for her. She opted to join Jessie. In the battle rounds she competed against Indie and Pixie performing the song "

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", she won the battle and progressed to the live shows. She got to the semi-final stage of the competition where she was eliminated.

2013–2017: Breakthrough and ''Eko EP''

Since appearing on ''The Voice UK'', versions of

's " She Wolf" and " Not Giving In" by

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have been published, as have covers of

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's "

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" and Alex Clare's " Too Close". Hill featured on

's track "Powerless", taken from their debut album ''

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''. She also provided cover for

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's vocals for Rudimental's set at Glastonbury 2013, Bestival 2013, Wakestock 2013 and Lovebox 2013. Hill provided vocals for and co-wrote Wilkinson's song

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, which peaked at number 8 on the

in October 2013, the song also peaked at number 1 on the

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. " Powerless" received a full single release on 23 February 2014. The song peaked at number 73 on the UK Singles Chart. Hill appeared on and co-wrote a vocal version of Oliver Heldens' "

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", renamed " Gecko (Overdrive)", alongside

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. The song topped the UK Singles Chart on 29 June 2014 thus making her the first ''The Voice UK'' contestant to achieve a number 1. On 9 November 2014 she released a single, "Losing", which was produced by

and intended to be the lead single from her solo album with then label

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. The single debuted at number 56 on the

. Hill co-wrote Australian recording artist Reigan Derry's debut single "

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". In July 2015,

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producer Watermät released a vocal version of his track "Frequency" with Hill as joint lead artist. The track was renamed to "All My Love". In early 2016, Hill announced that she was songwriting with CocknBullKid. In May 2016 she released her first proper single in two years, entitled "Back to My Love", featuring vocals from rapper

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. It was said to be the lead single off of her debut album, but was later included in the ''Eko EP'', released in August 2017. During the summer, she collaborated with a number of artists. Her first was with DJ and record producer MK on his single " Piece of Me". The second was with

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on his breakthrough single " False Alarm". In the late months of 2016, she announced a second single from her EP, entitled "Warm". It was co-written with

and produced by

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. In the end of March 2017, she released a third single, entitled "Rude Love". The song was co-written and produced by MNEK. The music video was released in April alongside the launch of her official VEVO channel on

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. In May 2017, Hill signed a worldwide publishing deal with Sony/ATV and also guest presented an episode of

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's '' The Playlist''. Following from this, Hill released a fourth single "Unpredictable" from the ''Eko EP'', along with the EP itself in August 2017 as the final release from her own independent label Eko Music Limited. "Unpredictable" was co-written by

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and MNEK, who also produced the track.

2017–2019: ''Get to Know''

Hill announced in August 2017 that she had signed a worldwide record deal with

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and expected to release her debut album in 2019. Upon signing her record deal, manager Alex Martin was quoted saying "Becky is at an incredibly exciting stage in her career. The public have only seen a small amount of Becky as a solo artist and what she can do and we were looking for the right partner to work with to take that further". In 2018, she released the single "Sunrise in the East", which was treated as the lead cut from her supposedly rejuvenated debut project. Not long after, she appeared on songs including " Back & Forth", alongside Marc Kinchen and Jonas Blue. This continued in the following year with "

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", with Weiss, and finally " Wish You Well", with

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, which became her first top 10 hit in the UK Charts since "Gecko (Overdrive)". She also wrote the song "

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" by Jax Jones,

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and Madison Beer, which was her first written effort to make it to the top 10 in the UK Charts. On 6 July 2019, Hill performed at Pride in London on the Trafalgar Square stage. On 24 September 2019, Hill announced on social media that she was going to be releasing a "mini-album" that Friday, with four new tracks. These four tracks were previously planned on being released on their own as an extended play, entitled ''Fickle Emotions'', but the idea was scrapped before including them on a compilation album. The album, under the title ''

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'', was released on 27 September 2019. On 6 December 2019, Hill released a cover of the Yazoo song, " Only You", dedicated to her grandfather, who had introduced her to

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' cover version of the song when she was young.

2020–2022: ''Only Honest on the Weekend''

At the beginning of 2020, Hill supported Irish pop rock band

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on their Sunsets & Full Moons tour in the UK and Ireland and performed some of her songs from ''Get to Know''. In late March of that year, the rest of the dates were cancelled due to the

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. She released the next singles from her debut album ''

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''; " Better Off Without You" with

and " Heaven on My Mind" with Sigala, both of which reached number fourteen on the UK Singles Chart. Follow up single "

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" peaked at seventy-nine, though this later did not make the final tracklist. In April, she collaborated with Tiesto on the song " Nothing Really Matters" which was later released through Tiesto's seventh album '' The London Sessions'', where she featured on another song called "Over You". In June, she premiered a Spotify podcast called "The Art of Rave" with features such as

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and

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. In November, she covered Alphaville's " Forever Young" for the UK's

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Christmas advert. The track became her first song without a joint credit to reach the UK Top 40, when it peaked at number thirty-five. Beginning in 2021, Hill released the singles "Last Time" and " Remember" with French DJ

. They peaked at number thirty-nine and number three respectively, the latter becoming Hill's fourth top-ten hit. On 15 July 2021, Hill teased the release of her debut album, ''Only Honest on the Weekend'', with a trailer on her Instagram featuring previously unreleased songs "

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" with

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and "Through the Night" with

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. The tracklist was later confirmed in full by

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. The album was originally planned to be released on 20 August 2021. Hill explained that the album would be delayed 1 week, and released on 27 August 2021 to let "

" shine on the UK charts. Released as the final single from the album, the song spent four weeks at number 11 becoming Hill's ninth top-20 single. Additionally, on 25 August 2021, days before the release of ''Only Honest on the Weekend'', a "

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" ''Girl Power Remix'' was released that Hill featured on along with Anne-Marie,

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, Raye and

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. On 25 January 2022, Hill announced that she will release a song with Wilkinson 9 years after their previous hit "Afterglow". The song is called "Here For You" and it was released on 11 February 2022. She later released "Run", a collaboration with Swedish EDM duo

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was released on 25 February 2022. This was followed by a deluxe edition of her debut album ''Only Honest on the Weekend''. It included singles "Space", "Run" with Galantis, "Hold On" with Netsky and "Here For You" with Wilkinson, the song "Personally" and the acoustic version of "Remember". On 8 April 2022, Hill collaborated with David Guetta and

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on the song " Crazy What Love Can Do". In July 2022, she performed at the closing ceremony of

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, after which she was trolled online due to the silver leotard she wore for the performance. She also performed during the beach volleyball events at the

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in Birmingham. On 5 August 2022, Hill collaborated with British DJ

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on the song "History".

Discography

Studio albums * ''

'' (2021) Compilation albums * ''

'' (2019)

Tour

Headlining

*Becky Hill Tour 2021 (2021-2022)

Awards and nominations

References

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