Candice Hillebrand

For the last five years, South African born singer songwriter Candice Hillebrand has kept a diary of her dreams.

Each morning, Candice Hillebrand wakes up and begins scribbling. These being dreams, the bleary-eyed scribblings give a skewed impression of Candice's reality, but they conjure an undeniable truth which spills over into passionate, Candice Hillebrand lyrics. If her music is bound together by one unifying theme, Candice Hillebrand explains, it is this: "The places you come from to get to where you're going." Snapshots of life, then living, learning, following your heart.

The seeds of Candice’s musical career were sewn four years ago when she met Australian songwriter Clive Young. "Send me your poetry," he told her, "and let’s see what happens." What happened was beyond any one's expectations; in 2002 she signed to one of South Africa’s leading independent record label Musketeer Records and at the beginning of 2003 her debut album was released. Featuring contributions from Divinyls mainstay Chrissie Amphlett amongst others, the album was called ‘Chasing Your Tomorrows’. "People seem to live for the future rather than for the moment," Candice says of the title ."Its the nature of the world we live in, "work jobs we hate to buy things we don't need."

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