Background
Parris, Rebecca was born on December 28, 1951 in Needham, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Edmund Myer and Shirley (Robinson) MacCloskey.
Parris, Rebecca was born on December 28, 1951 in Needham, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Edmund Myer and Shirley (Robinson) MacCloskey.
Student, Boston Conservatory of Music, 1969-1970.
Parris has made guest appearances with many top musicians (including Count Basie, Buddy Rich, Wynton Marsalis, Gary Burton and Dizzy Gillespie), performed at the legendary Monterey Jazz Festival in '90 & '95, North Sea Jazz Festival, Oslo Jazz Festival and of course the ever-so-hip International Floating Jazz Festival. “I hear a little Carmen McRae when I listen to Rebecca, “says Ron DellaChiesa, the jazz disk jockey at WGBH in Boston. “And a little Sarah Vaughan.
I think she's on that level”. "And being accepted as one of them was huge".
Performer, fundraiser Poor People's United Fund, Boston, 1984-1995, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Benefit, 1988, Holiday Project, 1989, Starlight Foundation, 1991, Living with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, 1991, Stuff for Kids, 1993, Child and Family Superior vena cava syndrome, 1993, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Action, boston, 1986-1995, ABCD, Boston, 1995, numerous others Member American Federation television and Radio Artists, American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.
Married Robert Louis DeGrassie, September 28, 1980 (divorced June 1985).