Antioch, Tennessee
39 Years Old
Singer-Songwriter

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BIOGRAPHY

Rebecca Hosking lives in Nashville TN, where she is actively exploiting her songwriting through several different genres. Her song Rag Doll was cut and released as a single by the independent band Good Souls. Stereo Times reviewed and were quoted, "Ragdoll a smoldering rocker with guitarist Dave Isaacs on this melodic head turner. She has had success in TV and Film, signing a contract with Audiobrain out of New York to air her song, WITHOUT AIM in the Beijing Olympics. Her song Rio Grande was selected for the independent film Ariadne's Thread. She had three songs in the top ten of NIM radio, Blue Back in The Sky slotted at number 3 and Rio Grande at number 2 and Rag Doll at number one and now all three will be entered into the hall of fame for NIM.

Rebecca can be seen in and around the south east areas playing in writer circles. She recently received honorable mention on VH1s song contest for songs co-written with Chrissy Colangelo and received honorable mention in the Billboard song contest, where the judge quoted, this could be on country radio today. Rebecca was also a runner up in the International Songwriting Contest. A creative soul to the core she also is an artist and can be solicited to do portraits, landscapes, anything you can dream she can paint. She is auctioning numerous pieces and all proceeds will go to the diabetes foundation. She has had numerous pieces displayed and sold in Art Galleries around the world.

She is an active member of the songwriters communities, WMBA, www.songu.com, NSAI, TSAI, and SGA. Recently she has been elected to the board of directors for TSAI and is now the acting Creative Director, responsible for the monthly newsletters and bookings as well as numerous other tasks. She was nominated for TSAI's 2008 Best Cowriter, Most Promising Female Songwriter, and Songwriter of the Year and took home the Board of Directors Award.

LEVEL

semi-pro

PUBLISHING COMPANY

LoveLloyd Music, I own my own publishing

Contact

Management: Ginny Foley
Publishing: LoveLloyd Music Publishing
Label: LoveLloyd Music
Booking: 615-870-2400
Administrative: hoskingrebecca@gmail.com

P.R.O.

ASCAP

INSTRUMENTS

banjo / acoustic guitar

INFLUENCES

EmmyLou Harris John Mellencamp Stevie Nicks Matraca Berg

DAY JOB

freelance writer

I AM INTERESTED IN

in co writing online
in co writing in person
in networking with songwriters
in pitching songs to artist
in pitching songs to tv
in getting a record deal
in getting a publishing deal

I WRITE:

It's my second job

I Also Write:
by myself
with others
for myself
for others

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics

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SONG CUTS

Rag Doll by Good Souls Your New Home by Rachel Farley Born To Be by Wendy Duffy Enough by Wendy Duffy Gotta Get To Know You by Wendy Duffy Rio Grande for the Film Ariadne's Thread Without Aim for the Beijing Olympic games The Hours Licensed by Star Marketing Come Down Easy Licensed by Star Marketing Dancin' When the Music Stops Licensed by 615 Music Love and Other Disasters licensed by APM Music

SONG PLACEMENTS

Rio Grande for Independent Film called Ariadne's Thread Without Aim Licensed by AudioBrain for the Bejieng Olympic Games

AWARDS & ACCOLADES

TSAI-Tennessee Songwriters Assoc. www.tnsai.com: Nominated for the Horizon Award in 2007 Nominated for the Best Cowriter, Most Promising Female Songwriter, and the Best Songwriter for 2008 and brought home the board of Directors Award. Billboard Song Contest: Her song New Orleans Honorable Mention "A very nice song, good lyrics and melody. This song could be on country radio." Stereo Times: Her song Rag Doll was cut and released as a single by the independent band Good Souls. Stereo Times reviewed and were quoted, "Ragdoll a smoldering rocker with guitarist Dave Isaacs on this melodic head turner." CD Reviews: www.rootstime.be Rootstime Seven songs and one bonus track on one EP; Rebecca... Seven songs and one bonus track on one EP; Rebecca Hosking doesn’t need more to convince us thoroughly that she is more than just another promising singer-songwriter. Hosking probably thought that it was better to make one very good EP than a half-good full-cd, and she was right, because this record doesn’t bore you for one second. The singer lives and works in Nashville, Tennessee, and seems to have picked up mostly the good things in this town (which is a feat in and of itself). Her music can probably best be described as country/Americana with a nice upbeat, that sucks you into irresistible sing-a-long refrains. With regards to the theme, the title of the EP covers it, even though the sometimes painful (love) experiences are covered up with summer sweet melodies, without ever being corny. It is pure enjoyment, for all 24 minutes. The would-be radio hit “Roll Over” blows in like a cooling wind on a much too hot summers day. Guitar, banjo and the lovely vocals of Rebecca, with backings from one of her musicians, are enough to make the country like title song and “Last Chance Café” modest, but oh so very beautiful listening pearls. And we haven’t even discussed the compelling beauty of “Robert would say” (about the American poet Robert Frost) of which we cannot get enough, or the brilliant acoustic guitar and dobroduel “Love is blind”. On the very beautiful bonus track “Lost is Found” Rebecca Hosking nearly reaches the level of one of her major examples: Emmylou Harris. Summarized: “Love and other disasters” is a wonderful, heartwarming record by an artist of which we will hopefully hear a lot in the near future. Shake

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Cadillac Sky

Cadillac Sky should be a lot more tired. It’s early Saturday afternoon at MerleFest and the band–Bryan Simpson, Matt Menefree, Andrew Moritz, Ross Holmes and newest addition David Mayfield–has already logged two performances on the day....

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Sessions: David Bazan

It was pretty slow. I mean, I played [the songs] on acoustic guitar for a long time, but I didn’t know how to transfer them to the other format. I didn’t want it to be a solo acoustic record. I wanted there to be bells and whistles and full band arrangements even if I didn’t want it necessarily to be electric guitar rock....

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Sessions: Vetiver

“It’s always slightly confounding to me whenever Vetiver is depicted with the same tropes that people have read off of press sheets,” says Andy Cabic. “The same sort of milestones get mentioned but then no one really digs to find out that there are those other things going on.”

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Behind The Song: “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing”

Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell sang, it has been remarked, like lovers, although they weren’t. Similarly, Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, the team behind one of Marvin and Tammi’s most enduring hits, “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing,” wrote as if under the influence of amatory forces; even if, in the spring of 1968,