billie joyce

Billie Joyce started performing when she was five years old.  When she turned seventeen, she went on the road, touring across Canada and the States with her country rock band. Traveling a long way from the small family farm outside  KAMSACK, SASKATCHEWAN , where she was born and raised. But she left the road for love and settled in Thunder Bay, Ontario where she worked as a prison guard in a maximum security prison for men, and as a counselor in a home for battered woman.  But some dreams will not rest, and she relocated in Nashville Tennessee, once again, on the road of her true calling. Music. 

      Once in Music City USA, where song writing is king, she began writing and recording the music that had been bottled up inside: Bluesy roots rock.  Her lyrics are from a woman's perspective: strong and sensual, insightful and honest.  Her vocals are passionate and believable. 

     In the summer of 2002, Billie Joyce recorded and released her debut album LOVE TONE on G.I.G. Records and began touring Europe and the UK, in response to radio airplay.

     In October of 2003, Billie Joyce produced and performed in, the first " Independents for Independence" .  This is a now an annual Benefit Concert and Silent Auction that is a passion for Billie Joyce.  It is Independent artists performing for safety and freedom from violence for woman.  A totally not for profit  evening of amazing independent music, to benefit the YW Domestic Violence Center of Nashville TN. please visit the I for I page on this website for more info. The third annual, was recently held, with guests including Gretchen Peters, Jim Lauderdale, Rod Picott, and Jonell Mosser.

     In spring of 2005, Billie Joyce  went over to the Netherlands to record her second album, with the talented BJ Baartmans.  the experience and results were amazing, and has resulted in her current album "one willing heart" .  released on the notable  independent  inbetweens  records  label, owned and run by Jos Starmans.  with label mates including BJ Baartmans, and fellow Canadians, Shannon Lyon and Astrid Young.

      She has toured The Netherlands, England, Ireland, Canada and South Eastern States in support of radio airplay of LOVE TONE, and now One willing heart.

     Billie Joyce is not only a performer who has a vibrant stage presence.  She is an introspective songwriter, who writes what she has lived, and that holds a believability, drawing you in, to make you listen to her stories of real life.