With her signature sultry, gritty rasp, the LA via Boston soulful/R&B singer-songwriter Becca Hannah has captivated audiences from Boston to Los Angeles throughout the last several years. The artist has played Made In America Festival in Philadelphia and was a 2025 Tiny Desk contest finalist. After connecting with Tristan Jantz in the local Boston scene, the pair hit it off and later both happened to move to Los Angeles a year apart. Now, they’ve come together to collaborate fully as co-writers and producers on Tonight In My Dreams Becca’s debut album, released last week.
Becca and Tristan first crossed paths in Boston’s music scene around 2021, where they played local gigs and began writing together—quickly proving themselves the ultimate dynamic duo. Becca leads with heart and spunky spontaneity, while Tristan, a true dreamer, brings sharp vision and flawless execution.
That same year, they performed at Jay-Z’s Made In America Festival in Philadelphia. For the show, Tristan reconnected with his high school friend, Brooklyn-based bassist Conner Duke, who joined them onstage. In May, Conner flew out to LA to record the album with them—a true full-circle moment.
Born from real life experiences, this ten track project touches on lust, love, growth, fear, loss, and longing with soulful vocals and layers of jazz and R&B as Hannah pulls from female powerhouses like Amy Winehouse, Corrine Bailey Rae and Erykah Badu. Hannah hopes the music connects to listeners in whichever ways they find meaningful. Creating her own sense of community through music,
Hannah adds, “We all love, we all suffer, and how beautiful is it that we can relate to each other through songs that highlight all of the above? It brings a sense of community and acknowledgement of our humanness. It makes the ebbs of life more manageable, and the flows all the more blissful.”
The album was tracked live with a 9-piece ensemble, and recorded and mixed by seven time GRAMMY-winner Jim Scott at his own Plyrz Studio in Valencia, CA. Scott’s work with Tedeschi Trucks Band, Tom Petty, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, and countless others drew Becca and Tristan to work with him. A visit to his secret studio, filled with magical vintage gear and creative energy sealed the deal–this album could only be made at Plyrz with Scott.
One earlier glimpse we had was the raw lush track “Eempathy” released early November. On the swirling, vulnerable track, “Empathy”, Hannah shares, “I’ve had this habit of internalizing other people’s opinions, values, and experiences so deeply that I’ve lost a sense of where I’ve stood as an individual. I’ve given people and their judgements the benefit of the doubt in ways that have led me down a dangerous path of self-doubt and further insecurity.”
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