Birmingham-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. 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 from her latest album A Storm Is Coming and one or two classic covers. She also performs the songs of her 2021 album Stripped Back in a 3-piece with Steve and drummer Neil Ablard, along with other RD tracks and a few covers in the same style.
Rebecca was born and grew up in Wolverhampton. She started performing live music when aged 13 and as a teenager wrote and performed her own material. The current music began when she linked up with co-songwriter Steve to write blues-infused material – a partnership that ‘clicked’ right away to deliver their excellent first album, Back To The Start (2013) followed by Believe and the live album BeLive (2017). 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.
The 2019 album More Sinner Than Saint contains material honed with advice from producer Chris Kimsey, famous for working with the Rolling Stones and Peter Frampton, and the tracks were mixed by California-based producer Bill Drescher and Thunder’s bassist Chris Childs. The album received considerable critical acclaim and the second single – Hurts – was playlisted by Planet Rock Radio.
In 2020 Rebecca and Steve released a dark, moody version of Slade’s classic track Mama Weer All Crazee Now that very much reflected the mood of the times, and a new version of Wave Them Goodbye from the last album in which she duets with Alan Nimmo of King King.
In April 2021 Rebecca released Stripped Back, an album created under lockdown conditions and containing ten tracks from Believe and More Sinner Than Saint each reimagined and re-presented in a laid-back style, together with two previously unreleased tracks. Steve plays the bulk of the instrumentation on the album, with the gigging band contributing their parts to the track Hurts. The album was arranged and produced by Steve and mixed by Steve Birkett Jnr.
In November 2022, Rebecca released The Space Between Us, ten new songs and one cover in a collection of raw, passionate, multi-hued tracks that allow Rebecca to deliver her at times very personal lyrics with vocal conviction. The album was produced by Steve Birkett and mixed and mastered by Gavin Monaghan.
Stranger Blue EP (2025) is a collection of cover songs recorded in ‘stripped back’ style. The album was arranged and produced by Steve and mixed by Steve Birkett Jnr.
A Storm Is Coming, an album of ten new original tracks, dropped on 31 October 2025. Three singles had been released earlier with Falling Into You playlisted by Planet Rock Radio, and Waiting For The Morning included on their Blues Power playlist.