Background
Rebecca Blasband was born and raised in New Hope, Pennsylvania to a psychiatrist father and a German immigrant mother who runs an antique store in Philadelphia, to which her family moved to when Blasband was thirteen.
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She attended New York University Film School, and worked as an actress with playwright David Mamet"s theater company. She ultimately returned to her first love, music, and formed a band with Adam Schlesinger, the leader of Ivy, saying of the group"s sound, "lieutenant was sort of Manchester-popular stuff. But after a while I started getting into Bob Dylan and things like that, and my direction kind of changed."
Blasband was cast in: New York, the first season of Music Television"s long-running reality television series,, for which she was paid $2,500.
Warner/Chappell Music signed Blasband to a publishing contract and financed an album entitled The Rebecca Blasband.
She moved to Denver, Colorado in March 1995, and has opened for Edwyn Collins.
