Aleyce Simmonds (born 6 December 1986 in

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) is an Australian country music recording artist and singer-songwriter. Simmonds' accolades include the

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Road to Tamworth Winner in 2004. As a part of her prize Aleyce visited

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and recorded a successful single, "Mighty, Mighty Love". Simmonds also won an

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, in 2017 for Country Work of the Year, with her song "Greatest Companion". She won Australian and National Duet of the year winner with Paul Costa for "The Way You Make Me Feel" in 2007. Simmonds received her 7th

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(Country Music Awards of Australia) nomination in 2017. In 2014, Simmonds won Female Artist of the Year at the Australian Independent Country Music Awards for 2014. In October 2015, Simmonds was named Australian Independent Artist of the Year, Female Vocalist of the Year and awarded Best Country Single of the Year.

Music career

Simmonds released her debut album in 2011 and 4 subsequent radio singles and music videos for "The Keeper", "When I Say Too Much", "The Healing Hands of Time" and "Bondwood Boat". All singles except "Bondwood Boat" achieved chart positions inside top 20. Simmonds was nominated for three

awards at the Country Music awards of Australia, The Healing Hands of Time, written with the album's producer

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, Paul Kelly) being nominated for Female Artist of the Year and New Talent of the Year and "Bondwood Boat" written with

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being nominated for Heritage Song of the year. She performed the song with Connors at the Golden Guitars. Simmonds was a finalist at the 2016

Awards for APRA AMCOS Song of the Year with her song "Joshua", about her stillborn baby brother. "Joshua" was awarded the No. 1 spot on the 88.9FM Tamworth Country Music Top 20 charts for 2015. Aleyce also secured No. 12 with "It Finds Us Anyway" and No. 14 with "The Greatest Companion" on the local station's countdown. At the

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Simmonds won the category, Country Work of the Year, with her song, "Greatest Companion"; it was inspired by being in the studio with Luke Bona on

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. It's about how important overnight radio is to so many people. Aleyce was blown away by the amazing callers Bona receives throughout the night and how important the radio is to them.

Personal life

Aleyce Simmonds was born on 6 December 1986 in

and moved when she was age 12 to Tamworth. At age 13, Aleyce entered her first talent quest but did not win. Then at the age of 16 she entered the Country Capital Music Association's (CCMA) Talent Quest. She was voted the best overall artist under the age of 16 and won $1,000, with which she brought her first guitar. She started writing songs and found she had a natural country sound, and by age 15 she was playing gigs in pubs around Tamworth. While Simmonds still tours regularly, she is currently living on her parents' hundred-acre property outside of Tamworth, where she spends weekdays writing songs before hitting the road to tour on the weekends. Simmonds is the host for

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Discography

Studio albums

Awards

APRA Awards

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are held in Australia and New Zealand by the

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to recognise songwriting skills, sales and airplay performance by its members annually. , - ,

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Country Music Awards of Australia

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, celebrating recording excellence in the Australian country music industry. They have been held annually since 1973. , - , 2018 , ''More Than Meets the Eye'' , Female Artist of the Year , , - , 2021 , "True Blue" (with

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) , Vocal Collaboration of the Year , , - * Note: wins only

References

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