Q&A with Becca Stevens

Saturday October 06, 2012

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Q&A with Becca Stevens
Frontwoman of progressive folk pop quartet, the Becca Stevens Band
By: Katie Crowe

I read on your website that you grew up in Winston-Salem, N.C., in a very musical family. Tell me about your very first musical experiences.

My mom and dad are both singers, and my dad is also a composer. I was the last child of three, and by the time I was born they already had a family band, so I was literally born into it. The band was called The Tune Mammals, and we would travel around to perform my dad’s songs that he wrote, sort of like folky children’s songs, at festivals and schools. I think I was performing by the time I was 2, and we made a recording when I was 2 as well.

As a family, we did a lot of musicals. We did “A Christmas Carol” every year and “The Sound of Music” … . My mom was getting her master’s in opera … and she and I got more and more serious about it (theater). When I was 10, my mom and I got into a national tour of “The Secret Garden.”

That was sort of a transitional moment for me. When I got back I was still interested in theater, but definitely by the time I went to high school, I started to realize for me, it was more about music, composing and singing, and not so much about the theatrical side of the arts.

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