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Artist
Rebecca Downes
12+ albums
bluesrockfemale vocalistblues rockgramusels bluesrock
about
THE STORY SO FAR... Birmingham (UK)-based Rebecca is a fully independent artist creating original blues/rock music with her co-songwriter Steve Birkett and releasing it on her own label Mad Hat Records, part of her own company that manages all aspects of the production chain from creation through recording and manufacture to marketing, promotion, and sales. Worldwide physical and digital distribution is undertaken by Cargo Records. She usually plays live within a 5-piece band, performing tracks mainly from her studio albums Believe (2016), More Sinner Than Saint (2019) and The Space Between Us (2022) along with new material and one or two classic covers. Rebecca was voted Female Vocalist and Emerging Artist of the Year at the British Blues Awards 2016 and Female Blues Vocalist of the Year in the FORM UK Blues Awards 2018. She was born and raised in Wolverhampton in the West Midlands of the United Kingdom. She grew up listening to a variety of different music with early influence from artists that her parents listened to such as Ella Fitzgerald and Etta James. She first started performing live music when aged 13 and as a teenager wrote and performed her own material. Some original recordings still exist – a little rough round the edges at times, but the passion and energy come through, along with the power of her voice. In her teenage years she was very much into rock but over the years she has listened to, performed, and enjoyed a very wide range of music. Whi
