I'm Giving Up On You is the story of a bad breakup.  

You know those relationships which just have to end, but you know they're not going to end well?  Where you've done everything you possibly could to save it, but it's still doomed?  Where you're the only person trying to salvage it?  Well, so does our hero (or heroine, in this case)...

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Thanks so much to everyone who has helped make this song a reality:

Written by Becki Biggins
Arranged by John-Paul Gard

Organ - John-Paul Gard
Drums - Andy Tween
Tenor Saxophone - Ben Waghorn

Mixing - Andy Tween
Mastering - Bob Macc at Subvert Mastering
Cover shot by Martin Hartley

I'm Giving Up On You

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I'M GIVING UP ON YOU - Becki Biggins

Here it is - just in time for the festive season.  Coming Home for Christmas was released on Trippin' n' Rhythm's 'The Very Best of Christmas' album.  Enjoy!

Coming Home For Christmas

"A highly accomplished vocalist” – The Jazz Mann

“She [gives] a glimpse into modern-day femininity” – London Jazz News

“Great lass, great talent” – Sir Michael Parkinson

FURIOUS is the new single from multi award-winning jazz singer & songwriter Becki Biggins.  It's a tongue-in-cheek tale of a woman who waits… and lives to regret it.

The hotly anticipated follow-up to 2021’s I’m Giving Up on You, FURIOUS is a song about bad sex. Biggins says:
‘Almost all the women I know have the same story – they meet someone, think they’re amazing and decide to get to know them better before ‘doing the deed’. They’re romantically invested, and then what happens? The sex is terrible! And how do they feel? FURIOUS!’

FURIOUS is the second single from the forthcoming album ‘It’s a Man’s World’, a collection of songs inspired, written, and popularised by men, which is due out later in 2022. London Jazz News says, ‘She has taken the most classic, masculine songs, and used them to give the audience a glimpse into modern-day femininity.’

The song’s music video, filmed on location in Bristol, takes the form of a live stream from a second-rate influencer; Biggins is almost unrecognisable from her everyday girl-next-door persona, in a fuchsia suit, hair extensions and WAY too much make-up. The video aims to poke fun at the social media society we live in now – our heroine has no shame in over-sharing for likes.

Biggins is no stranger to songwriting success. Collaborations with N-n-n-Nineteen artist Paul Hardcastle (she co-wrote and sang lead vocals on three of his albums) all went to No. 1 in the US Smooth Jazz chart, holding chart positions for a total of more than three years. She has played to capacity audiences in the UK’s leading jazz clubs, and performed for Princes, Prime Ministers and Presidents in a career that has spanned over 25 years. She started young…

Hilarious, ridiculous, and unfortunately truthful… FURIOUS was released on Friday 13th May, 2022.

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FURIOUS

FURIOUS - Becki BIggins - Radio Edit

'I Almost Took A Lover' is a song of gentle regret.

The follow-up to bluesy, angry 'I'm Giving Up On You' and tongue-in-cheek tale 'FURIOUS', 'I Almost Took A Lover' tells the story of what happens when you don't dive in, when you don't throw caution to the wind, and how you feel when you revisit that situation many years later.

Featuring Mike Davis on flugelhorn (Paul McCartney, Stormzy), 'I Almost Took A Lover' is genre-defining in its jazz-pop approach.  The track is the third single from Becki's forthcoming album 'It's A Man's World' - out November 18th - and the third of four original tracks.

Becki Biggins is an award-winning jazz singer, songwriter and saxophonist, and featured three on US No. 1 albums with Paul Hardcastle (19).

NEW - I ALMOST TOOK A LOVER - Becki Biggins

A song written on a beautiful day in Covent Garden, where Joe and I were dreaming of all the lovely things we could've been doing in the city, if only we weren't inside writing songs…

Written by myself and the marvellous Joe Stilgoe.

The D.I.Y. EP

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Just For a Day

Accentuate The Positive

A classic Peggy Lee song, recorded live at The Pheasantry in Chelsea on December 13th, 2012.

Live at the Pheasantry 131212

Black Coffee

This is a version of You Should Be Married By Now, recorded LIVE!  The studio version is also up here - just have a look at The D.I.Y. EP

Written by Becki Biggins, with Malcolm Edmonstone

Married by Now - LIVE demo

This is Michel Legrand's fantastic 'Sweet Gingerbread Man', recorded with Laurie Holloway (Parkinson, Strictly Come Dancing) at the piano, Dave Olney on the bass and Harold Fisher on drums.

It's the song people seem to download first from my latest album 'The +Ve', so I thought it should be the first one on SoundCloud!

If you enjoy it, please take a few seconds to let me know.  Thanks!

Sweet Gingerbread Man - Becki Biggins

I recorded this track live on Robert Elms' show on BBC Radio London, and it features the lovely Malcolm Edmonstone on piano.

This could be my favourite Christmas song…  xx

Becki Biggins - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - LIVE on BBC Radio London

An arrangement I wrote of 'Angel Eyes', performed live at Pizza Express Jazz Club on 12/04/12.
Features Laurie Holloway on piano, Jules Jackson on bass, Harold Fisher on drums, recorded by Luc Saint-Martin, and I'm the vocalist and saxophonist.
Enjoy!

Angel Eyes LIVE

From the 2008 album, Hardcastle 5, with Maxine Hardcastle on Backing Vocals.

The album was at no. 1 on the US Smooth Jazz albums chart for 8 weeks, spent 68 weeks (that's over a year!) in the Billboard Jazz Album chart, and peaked at no. 176 in the Billboard Top 200.

Paul and I won the Billboard 'Smooth Jazz Artist of the Year' award for this album, and it was nominated for the 'Best Jazz Album' Grammy Award, 2009.

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Closer - BB & Paul Hardcastle

This is the second song Paul and I wrote together, from the 2008 album 'Hardcastle 5'.

The album was at no. 1 on the US Smooth Jazz albums chart for 8 weeks, spent 68 weeks (that's over a year!) in the Billboard Jazz Album chart, and peaked at no. 176 in the Billboard Top 200.

Paul and I won the Billboard 'Smooth Jazz Artist of the Year' award for this album, and it was nominated for the 'Best Jazz Album' Grammy Award, 2009.

Don't You Know - BB & Paul Hardcastle

Another track from 'Hardcastle 5', with backing vocals from Maxine Hardcastle.

The album was at no. 1 on the US Smooth Jazz albums chart for 8 weeks, spent 68 weeks (that's over a year!) in the Billboard Jazz Album chart, and peaked at no. 176 in the Billboard Top 200.

Paul and Becki won the Billboard 'Smooth Jazz Artist of the Year' award for this album, and it was nominated for the 'Best Jazz Album' Grammy Award, 2009.

Blew My Mind - BB & Paul Hardcastle

The last vocal track from 'Hardcastle 5'.

The album was at no. 1 on the US Smooth Jazz albums chart for 8 weeks, spent 68 weeks (that's over a year!) in the Billboard Jazz Album chart, and peaked at no. 176 in the Billboard Top 200.

Paul and I won the Billboard 'Smooth Jazz Artist of the Year' award for this album, and it was nominated for the 'Best Jazz Album' Grammy Award, 2009.

Keep Movin On - BB & Paul Hardcastle

This is a song Paul and I wrote for Hardcastle 6 - seems to have struck a chord with many people, and we've heard about lots of new arrangements of it.  All good news.

From the 2010 album, Jazzmasters 6, which was no.1 in the US Smooth Jazz Chart for a total of 13 weeks, and no. 1 on Amazon US Jazz Downloads chart.


One Chance - BB & Paul Hardcastle

From the 2010 album, Jazzmasters 6, which was no.1 in the US Smooth Jazz Chart for a total of 13 weeks, and no. 1 on Amazon US Jazz Downloads chart.


I Really Like - BB & Paul Hardcastle

Can't Get By was written on a very warm summer's day - it was a struggle to stay inside Paul's windowless studio all day, and so whenever I was writing lyrics I escaped and sat on the doorstep, in the sunshine...

From the 2010 album, Jazzmasters 6, which was no.1 in the US Smooth Jazz Chart for a total of 13 weeks, and no. 1 on Amazon US Jazz Downloads chart.

Can't Get By - BB & Paul Hardcastle

This is the full lyrical version of The Vision, which Paul remixed later into '19 (The Vision)' - you get a fuller sense of the story of the song in this version.

From the 2010 album, Jazzmasters 6, which was no.1 in the US Smooth Jazz Chart for a total of 13 weeks, and no. 1 on Amazon US Jazz Downloads chart.

The Vision - BB & Paul Hardcastle

The last vocal track on the album Jazzmasters 6, which was no.1 in the US Smooth Jazz Chart for a total of 13 weeks, and no. 1 on Amazon US Jazz Downloads chart.


So Into You - BB & Paul Hardcastle

This is the final vocal track from Hardcastle 6, which held the no. 1 position on the US Smooth Jazz chart for 6 weeks, and peaked at no. 4 in Billboard's Jazz Albums Chart (sadly being beaten to the top spot by Michael Buble). Shame!

Let this Love Begin - BB & Paul Hardcastle

Taken from the album 'Hardcastle 6', which held the no. 1 position on the US Smooth Jazz chart for 6 weeks, and peaked at no. 4 in Billboard's Jazz Albums Chart (sadly being beaten to the top spot by Michael Buble). Shame!

Lost for Words - BB & Paul Hardcastle

A cover of Michael Jackson's pop ballad - this was recorded in one take, and features on my 2010 album 'The +Ve' ('The Positive).  Featuring Malcolm Edmonstone on piano.

(S)He's Out of My Life

A faster track, from 'The +Ve', featuring Becki on both vocals and tenor saxophone.  

There Will Never Be Another You

IMAGINE... ...if Chet Baker, Sarah Vaughan, Stan Getz and Cannonball Adderley were reincarnated in the body of a rural Shropshire Lass…. Imagine no more, and meet Becki Biggins.

The multi-award-winning singer, songwriter and saxophonist cites Donald Fagen and Michael Brecker as major influences, but her vocal and instrumental sounds, not to mention her smouldering looks, are from waaaaay back. Her first tour as a working musician, aged 13, was to the legendary Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and after such an auspicious and eye-opening start, she unsurprisingly fell in love with jazz music and its history. A couple of National awards and numerous TV and Radio appearances later, and Becki was ready to launch into a career which has already spanned 25 years.

Her forthcoming album, It’s a Man’s World, is a celebration of great songs, written, popularised and inspired by good men performed by a strong, secure woman. Her abilities as a songwriter (she co-wrote three albums with Paul Hardcastle (19, The Wizard) which all went to No.1 in the US jazz charts) are also put to use, as the record is peppered with her own stories and those she’s heard and collected over the years.

It’s a Man’s World ‘highlight[s] various sides of femininity with tenderness and poise’, says London Jazz News, and is a representation of the juxtaposition of Becki’s life - a girl-next-door, homemaker and mother on one hand, and a proud, independent, unashamedly sexy woman on the other.

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