Aleyce Simmonds

Aleyce Simmonds (born 6 December 1986 in Port Macquarie, New South Wales) is an Australian country music recording artist and singer-songwriter.

[4][5] In 2014, Simmonds won Female Artist of the Year at the Australian Independent Country Music Awards for 2014.

[6] Simmonds released her debut album in 2011 and four subsequent radio singles and music videos for "The Keeper", "When I Say Too Much", "The Healing Hands of Time" and "Bondwood Boat".

Simmonds was nominated for three Golden Guitar awards at the Country Music awards of Australia, The Healing Hands of Time, written with the album's producer Rod McCormack (Beccy Cole, Adam Harvey, Amber Lawrence, Paul Kelly) being nominated for Female Artist of the Year and New Talent of the Year and "Bondwood Boat" written with Graeme Connors being nominated for Heritage Song of the year.

[9] At the APRA Music Awards of 2017 Simmonds won the category, Country Work of the Year, with her song, "Greatest Companion";[10] it was inspired by being in the studio with Luke Bona on 2UE.

[13] Aleyce Simmonds was born on 6 December 1986 in Port Macquarie, New South Wales and moved when she was age 12 to Tamworth.

[14][7] She started writing songs and found she had a natural country sound, and by age 15 she was playing gigs in pubs around Tamworth.