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Aleyce Simmonds

Australian singer-songwriter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ16231546
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Aleyce Simmonds (born 6 December 1986 in Port Macquarie, New South Wales) is an Australian country music recording artist and singer-songwriter. Simmonds' accolades include the Telstra Road to Tamworth Winner in 2004. As a part of her prize Aleyce visited Nashville and recorded a successful single, "Mighty, Mighty Love". Simmonds also won an APRA Award, in 2017 for Country Work of the Year, with her song "Greatest Companion".

She won Australian and National Duet of the year winner with Paul Costa for "The Way You Make Me Feel" in 2007.

Simmonds received her 7th Golden Guitar (Country Music Awards of Australia) nomination in 2017. In 2014, Simmonds won Female Artist of the Year at the Australian Independent Country Music Awards for 2014. In October 2015, Simmonds was named Australian Independent Artist of the Year, Female Vocalist of the Year and awarded Best Country Single of the Year.

Music career

Simmonds released her debut album in 2011 and four subsequent radio singles and music videos for "The Keeper", "When I Say Too Much", "The Healing Hands of Time" and "Bondwood Boat". All singles except "Bondwood Boat" achieved chart positions inside top 20.

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“Aleyce Simmonds” enters the record as australian singer-songwriter. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Aleyce, Simmonds and Australian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1986, 2004, 2017, 2007—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1986-12-06. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Aleyce, Simmonds and Australian.
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“Aleyce Simmonds” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Aleyce, Simmonds and Australian provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16231546. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1986, 2004, 2017 and 2007.

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