Who is Becca Schack?
Becca Schack sashays onto the stage, and transports you into her universe of seduction and intrigue. The Juilliard-trained composer and burgeoning electro-pop sensation, tells intimate stories of her life with provocative boldness. Her music arouses images of a young Madonna getting lost in Bladerunner and having a fist fight with Kylie Minogue.
Born in upstate New York to artistically inclined parents, Becca grew up entertaining friends and family members at birthday parties and family gatherings. As a young child, she took pleasure in forcing her sister to play duets and sing harmonies. When her mother finally called the local piano teacher to sign her up for lessons, she already knew who Becca was.
Becca’s earliest memories point to her intrinsic nature as an artist who exists in a world she invents for herself. “I can remember hearing music rustling in the branches around my tree-house,” she says, “and immediately running inside to play the melodies I’d heard on to the piano.”
She started winning public recognition for her compositions at ASCAP’s Young Composers competitions before she was even in high school. She is a Gold Record recipient for the Trans Siberian Orchestra’s “The Lost Christmas Eve” album, a Finalist in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest (Electronic Division) for her song “Metal Factory,” and has regular music placements on network television shows including Bones and One Life to Live.
Becca’s originality and technical prowess have brought her to music venues spanning the US, Europe and Central America. While at Juilliard, she studied with world-renowned composers Christopher Rouse, Samuel Adler, and electronic music guru Elliott Sharp. She has composed for ensembles such as Melodia Women’s Choir and Ballet Austin II. Her wide-range talents have led her to collaborations and performances with musicians Mark Wood, Eric Mingus, Alex Skolnick, Teddy Thompson and members of the New York Philharmonic. She’s rocked out with bands Cantinero, Samsara, and Braindance, and has graced stages all over the New York club scene while fronting the dance-pop duo Tonica.
“The path to finding my musical voice all began with locking myself in my room and writing love songs,” Becca says. “I have shaped my sound through dancing in clubs, playing in bands and writing music for the concert hall.” After exploring many genres that have shaped her current musical sensibility (including pop, dance, rock, jazz, and classical) Becca returned to the studio with a new mission: to allow the music to be created naturally without any attachment to any particular stylistic outcome. The result is a beautiful culmination of her influences and life experiences. “The songs I am currently writing represent everything I’ve been through both personally and artistically. I am reinventing myself while still embracing my past.”
Becca’s new EP, The Story, deals with the idea of being asleep in a dream-state and then having an awakening. It is a journey of self-realization and romantic rumination, with electricity surging through every word.
The underlying intention behind Becca’s music is “to make people feel like they’re not alone and to take them to a place they’ve never been before, where everyone celebrates life with reckless abandonment.” And she “wouldn’t mind if they took off their clothes on the dance floor either.”
Look out for this one.
PRESS:
“Becca is the brightest star in the Universe.” (Grammy nominated songwriter, Jerico DeAngelo)
“This is pop music in every sense of the term, and it was fun. It was loud in your face pop with a heavy beat and huge hooks. [Becca] really seemingly has the whole package – an awesome voice, can write her own songs, and write big catchy hooks, can play the piano, and she is rather attractive to boot. As I said, it seems like she has all the makings of a pop star.” (stoptheweakness.com)
“Poised for a 2010 breakout. Combining elements of techno, electronic, jazz and standard pop, Schack’s music is refreshingly original.” (Timothy Malcolm, Times Herald Record)
“Although she brings enough melody and sass to satisfy any jones for sugary pop, Becca Schack knows that too many sweets can make you sick. That’s why her candy-coated songs have intricate layers of ambient textures and trip-hop beats. It’s a heady artistic endeavor and a guilty pleasure all at once.” (Download.com)
