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Rebecca Lynn was born in Long Beach, California, the seventh of seven to a family who loved music. Friends and family would often gather at the Lynn home and have "hoots" where guitars, banjos, dulcimers, autoharps, mandolins, violins, and voices were used to pay respect to old American folk songs and contemporary pop/rock including The Carter Family, Johnny Cash, The Beatles, and much more.
Because there was a span of fourteen years between the youngest and oldest Lynn children, there was a lot of variety in what music was shared. Examples of such variety on the busy turntable included classical, (which has become an umbrella term meant to include music from the baroque era, the romantic period, and 20th Century compositions, etc.) international folk, jazz, pop, rhythm and blues, rock, even comedy, and later, new wave and punk rock.
At age 9, Rebecca picked up the violin and started playing in the Long Beach public school orchestras. Without the guidance of private instruction she immersed herself in learning to read music, personal practice, rehearsal, and performance. In order to be her own accompanist for singing, she added guitar to her arsenal. The downtown Long Beach main library was frequently missing its Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel songbooks.
During the summer between her 11th and 12th grades, Rebecca lived in Avalon on Catalina Island and began her professional career as a musician and singer. Performing live in bars and restaurants most nights of the week, she belted out oldies, top 40 hits, and local artists' originals. She kept herself busy during the day with the same musicians performing folk and bluegrass tunes on violin and voice.
After completing her senior year of high school, Becky attended both Long Beach City College and California State University Long Beach and joined the symphonic, pit, and chamber orchestras. Soon thereafter, Rebecca returned to Avalon and joined with a new group of musicians performing blues, jazz, and rock covers, as well as originals.
Back in her hometown, Ms. Lynn spent years performing and recording with a variety of original bands as a violinist, guitarist, and vocalist. She co-composed music for stage plays, including Sam Shepard's, "A Lie of The Mind" and two children's plays by Edward Mast. Rebecca simultaneously taught individual private lessons on violin and guitar, mostly to children.
