Girls Who Rock
Meet Rebecca Brown

By Clare Tattersall, staff writer

A rock star in the making…Rebecca Brown is only 11 years old, but she has long been taking her music career by the horns and steering her dreams towards reality.

After taking music lessons since she was 18 months old, Rebecca saw a friend in a guitar recital at the age of four and decided that was the instrument for her.

Practice Makes Perfect

Rebecca is living proof that practice really does make perfect. She explains how much she loved the guitar: "Every morning, the first thing I would do was practice. It was the first thing I would do when I got home from school and the last thing I would do before I went to bed. I realized at the very beginning that if you practiced really hard, the rewards are even greater. In the words of Dr Suzuki, 'You only practice on the days you eat.' Practice just became a way of my life like sleeping, eating, etc."

From Classical to Rock

Sure, Rebecca's dedicated and serious, but she still knows how to have fun. Classically trained on the guitar, she points out that classical music isn't necessarily dull. After appearing on From the Top (a nationally broadcast radio show), Rebecca was selected to audition for the movie School of Rock, in which she was able to demonstrate her playing-the-guitar-behind-the-head skills and "learned to rock out on the bass guitar" in sparkling glitter and spiked hair as a fifth-grade over-achiever turned high-voltage rock-and-roller.

More to Come

Still studying and practicing, Rebecca is now busy with auditions and may even be releasing her own record. But how does she manage to combine music, friends, schoolwork, and pursuing her dreams? She just…does. "When you want to get something done," she explains, "you just make things work out."

A hard act to follow—watch out for a future Grammy® winner.