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Rebecca Ungerman is a Tulsa native and has been singing
all her life.
In August, 2009, her fans voted her Urban Tulsa Weekly Magazine's
Absolute Best Female Vocalist.
Rebecca began her career while still underage, sneaking into Jay’s Place, a seedy
local dive, for the Sunday night jam sessions. Here she met her longtime
collaborator and co-producer Hank Charles, owner/operator of Valcour
Studios. Early in her career,
she was the first to bring live music to many local venues. In the
mid 1990s, Rebecca took a break from pop music and Tulsa for several years and
concentrated on her studies, performing & teaching modern and
traditional Jewish music.
During this time, she had the pleasure of singing and studying with
many wonderful artists including Debbie Friedman, the founder of modern
Jewish music. This led to her
career as a professional song leader & Judaic educator, sharing
spirituality & music across the country
with various teen organizations.
Upon her return to Tulsa, she sang for
three years with the jump blues band Blue Combo, opening for Little
Richard at the Cain’s Ballroom, headlining
the Little Rock Blues Festival and playing all over Oklahoma and the
surrounding states. In the
last few years, Rebecca has developed her solo career & moved ahead to what has been described
as a ‘higher level of musical interpretation.’ Backed by many of Tulsa's finest
instrumentalists, she now has the freedom to channel
her energies into becoming a skilled song stylist like her idol, Nancy
Wilson.
In 2001, Rebecca co-founded the
H.O.P.E. DIVA Show, an annual benefit for Health, Outreach,
Prevention & Education of Tulsa. To date, The Diva show has raised
over $250,000 to help combat the H.I.V. epidemic. She also gives
generously of her time & talent to raise money & awareness for other
causes including breast cancer education & youth in crisis.
In recent years, Rebecca has taken her skills
backstage as the director of the Tulsa Gridiron,
a local political satire show with a 75 year history in Tulsa. She
has written, often with stellar collaborator P. Casey Morgan, &
performed in many original cabaret shows as part of the
SummerStage series at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center.
In 2009, Rebecca joined forces with Cindy Cain, P.
Casey Morgan & Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame inductee Pam Van Dyke to form
Sweet & Hot Productions. Under that umbrella, they have created
two musicals and a CD,
Backstage at the Midnight Social Club,' featuring
Rebecca, Cindy, Pam and Annie Ellicott.
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Rebecca has released several recordings, including
her acclaimed 2004 solo album 'I Just Want...'.
In February of 2010, she released her 1st inspirational
collection, 'The Jewish Album' at
the International Convention of the B'nai Brith Youth Organization,
performing in front of almost 1,000 teens. |