Rebecca Blasband (born c. 1968) is an American singer-songwriter, screenwriter, and television personality known as a cast member on ''
The Real World: New York'', the first season of
MTV
MTV (Originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable channel that launched on August 1, 1981. Based in New York City, it serves as the flagship property of the MTV Entertainment Group, part of Paramount Media Networks, a di ...
's reality television show ''
The Real World
Real World or The Real World may also refer to:
* Real life, a phrase to distinguish between the real world and fictional, virtual or idealized worlds
Television
* ''The Real World'' (TV series), 1992–2017
* "The Real World" (''Stargate Atla ...
''.
Early life
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 13.
She attended
Tisch School of the Arts at
New York University and worked as an actress with playwright
David Mamet's theater company.
Returning to music, she formed a band with
Adam Schlesinger, the leader of
Ivy, saying of the group's sound, "It was sort of Manchester-pop stuff. But after a while I started getting into
Bob Dylan and things like that, and my direction kind of changed."
[Becky: The Real World: New York]
MTV. 1992. Retrieved November 29, 2011.
''The Real World''
In 1992, Blasband, then 24, was cast in ''
The Real World: New York'', the first season of
MTV
MTV (Originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable channel that launched on August 1, 1981. Based in New York City, it serves as the flagship property of the MTV Entertainment Group, part of Paramount Media Networks, a di ...
's long-running reality television series, ''
The Real World
Real World or The Real World may also refer to:
* Real life, a phrase to distinguish between the real world and fictional, virtual or idealized worlds
Television
* ''The Real World'' (TV series), 1992–2017
* "The Real World" (''Stargate Atla ...
'', for which she was paid $2,500.
[ She was later cast in the 2021 reunion series, '' The Real World Homecoming: New York'', in which the original cast were reunited in the same New York loft they originally lived in. After watching a clip from the original series in which Blasband and castmate Kevin Powell got into a heated debate about racism, the two again discussed the topic. Blasband reacted badly to criticisms from other castmates about her views on the topic, and walked off of the show in episode three.
]
After ''The Real World''
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.[
]
References
External links
*
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1967 births
Living people
The Real World (TV series) cast members
The Challenge (TV series) contestants