Aleyce Simmonds won an APRA Award, in 2017 for Country Work of the Year, with her song "Greatest Companion".
15 Facts About Aleyce Simmonds
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Aleyce Simmonds won Australian and National Duet of the year winner with Paul Costa for "The Way You Make Me Feel" in 2007.
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Aleyce Simmonds received her 7th Golden Guitar nomination in 2017.
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In 2014, Aleyce Simmonds won Female Artist of the Year at the Australian Independent Country Music Awards for 2014.
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In October 2015, Aleyce Simmonds was named Australian Independent Artist of the Year, Female Vocalist of the Year and awarded Best Country Single of the Year.
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Aleyce 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 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.
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Aleyce Simmonds performed the song with Connors at the Golden Guitars.
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Aleyce Simmonds was a finalist at the 2016 Golden Guitar Awards for APRA AMCOS Song of the Year with her song "Joshua", about her stillborn baby brother.
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Aleyce Simmonds secured No 12 with "It Finds Us Anyway" and No 14 with "The Greatest Companion" on the local station's countdown.
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At the APRA Music Awards of 2017 Aleyce 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 2UE.
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Aleyce Simmonds was blown away by the amazing callers Bona receives throughout the night and how important the radio is to them.
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Aleyce Simmonds was born on 6 December 1986 in Port Macquarie, New South Wales and moved when she was age 12 to Tamworth.
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At age 13, Aleyce Simmonds entered her first talent quest but did not win.
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Aleyce Simmonds was voted the best overall artist under the age of 16 and won $1,000, with which she brought her first guitar.
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Aleyce Simmonds started writing songs and found she had a natural country sound, and by age 15 she was playing gigs in pubs around Tamworth.