
Francesca’s Story
Francesca de Valence is a multi-award-winning songwriter, founder of I Heart Songwriting Club, and co-founder of Whitsundays Songwriter Festival. A renowned international speaker and educator across the songwriting scene, Francesca’s passion for supporting songwriters has seen her become an uplifting, enlightening, and empowering force for songwriters worldwide through her I Heart Songwriting Club.
Based in Brisbane, Francesca has been published by Songwriting Magazine UK and has facilitated songwriting workshops worldwide with APRA AMCOS, Irish Music Rights Organisation, and Folk Alliance International. Through her visionary work as founder of the online songwriting club – I Heart Songwriting Club – Francesca is revolutionising the songwriting space, helping birth 30,000 songs and changing the lives of thousands of songwriters worldwide.
With a heroic catalogue of over 700 songs, including her impressive streak of writing a song a week for the past 10 years, Francesca music has been recorded and performed by artists including Vika & Linda and Wendy Matthews. As a music industry mentor, she guides artists tour nationally, grow audiences and build sustainable careers, and she hosts the inspiring songwriting podcast, “The Magic of Songwriting”.
Francesca is a leading Australian educator holding a Masters in Music Pedagogy, Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Education. With over 20 years experience teaching at esteemed music schools, including the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Griffith University, Francesca also develops creative development curriculum and educational programs for schools, music festivals, LGA creative development programs and more.
As a songwriter, she has been acknowledged by the Los Angeles Music Awards with an International Songwriter of the Year Award and also holds an Australian Songwriting Award. She has supported artists including Jimmy Webb, Belinda Carlisle and Deacon Blue and she has performed at iconic global music venues including The Bitter End (NYC), The Viper Room (LA) and The Ruby Sessions (Dublin), at festivals including Folk Alliance International New Orleans (NOLA), MOFO (Hobart) and Brisbane Festival (Brisbane), and has even performed a concert to a French audience entirely in French language.
An ‘uplifting, enlightening, and empowering’ force in the global music industry, Francesca de Valence is a musician with a mission to be living her wildest creative dreams and inspiring others around her to do the same.