Rebecca Blasband (born July 8, 1967) 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's reality television show The Real World.
She attended Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and worked as an actress with playwright David Mamet's theater company.
[1] 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.
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.