Beccy Cole

Beccy Cole, also known as Beccy Sturtzel, Rebecca Diane Albeck and Bec O’Donovan, is an Australian country music singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She has released ten studio albums, with six reaching the ARIA Albums Chart top 40. Little Victories (January 2003), Preloved (September 2010), Songs & Pictures (September 2011), Great Women of Country (with Melinda Schneider, November 2014), Sweet Rebecca (April 2015) and The Great Country Songbook Volume 2 (with Adam Harvey, April 2017). Her video album, Just a Girl Singer (August 2004), peaked at No. 6 on the ARIA Top 40 DVD Chart. Cole has received nine Golden Guitar trophies at the CMAA Country Music Awards of Australia. During December 2005 to January 2006 she performed for Australian Defence Force personnel in Iraq. Her related single, “Poster Girl (Wrong Side of the World)” (May 2016), expresses her support for the troops. It won the 2007 Song of the Year at CMAA awards, and its music video was listed at No. 1 on Australia’s Country Music Channel. In March 2015 she published her autobiography, Poster Girl.

Cole has won numerous Country Music Awards of Australia held at the Tamworth Country Music Festival.

Such as in:

• 1994, Cole won ‘New Talent of the Year’ for “Foolin’ Around”
• 2001, Cole won ‘Female Vocalist of the Year’ for This Heart and ‘Vocal Collaboration of the Year’ with Darren Coggan, Felicity and Adam Harvey for “Do I Ever Cross Your Mind”.
• 2002, Cole won ‘Female Vocalist of the Year’ for “Too Strong To Break”
• 2007, Cole won ‘Female Artist of the Year’ ‘Song of the Year’ and ‘Single of the Year’ for “Poster Girl (Wrong Side of the World)”
• 2012, Cole won ‘Female Artist of the Year’ for “Waitress” and ‘Vocal Collaboration of the Year’ with Kasey Chambers for “Millionaires”
• 2017, Cole won ‘Vocal Collaboration of the Year’ with Catherine Britt for “FU Cancer”
• 2019, Cole won ‘Female Artist of the Year’.