About Rebecca and Rick

"This lady can really sing"
- LA Jazz Scene

 

Lush vocals and superb arrangements are the trademarks of all of the bands lead by vocalist/songwriter Rebecca Kyler Downs. She creates a late-night, supper-club feel in every venue she plays. She is equally comfortable singing in French, Spanish, Portuguese or English, and she liberally sprinkles her shows with songs written in all of these languages. With her elegant appearance, trademark red satin gloves and rich, throaty voice she brings glamour, romance and elan to the stage.

She co-leads her outstanding dance-band with her partner, grammy-nominated saxophone player Rick Rossi. Often with as many as seven vocalists, this high-energy, hard-rocking band features the cream of the LA studio and club scene; four horns, a four-piece rhythm section, additional percussion and three vocalists out front.

Rebecca hit the Billboard Jazz charts this year with her French and English vocals on Come Fly Away on Steve Reid's smooth Jazz CD Dream'Scapes. Long known as one of the two beautiful girl singers with Red and the Redhots, she has sung all over the US and Europe, been featured on national television and was spotlighted with them in Vogue with Leonardo Di Caprio. Her original songs have been featured on several TV and movie soundtracks including the hit TV Show Roswell , the upcoming William Macy/Alec Baldwin movie The Cooler and Down With Love. She won the 2002 Silver Mike Award. She is a popular voice-over artists and you have heard her voice on many a Lexxus commercial as well as on Cd-Roms such as Warcraft (I, II, III) and Heretic (I & II), and she recently appeared in the short-lived series Robbery Homicide Division with Tom Sizemore.

Rick has been twice nominated for a Grammy, toured the world with major acts, including Brian Setzer, Bobby Womack and Bobby Caldwell. He has appeared in numerous television shows and movies, including Friends, West Wing, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, David Letterman, Regis and Kathie Lee, Conan O'Brian, MTV, VH-1 and Good Morning America and was featured on the Grammy-Award winning multi-platinum CD The Dirty Boogie.

The players in all of their bands have been drawn from a pool of talented professionals from the Los Angeles area; including members of The Tonight Show Orchestra, other members of The Brian Setzer Orchestra (not just Rick) and Royal Crown Revue. Between the members of this band is an impressive list of some the most popular jazz and pop artists today with whom they have worked, including Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, Babyface, Shakira, Cher, Wynton Marsalis and Ray Charles.

"The hottest jazz singer
since Jessica Rabbit."
- Gary Dalkin, Film Music on the Web

 
     
     
     

 


 

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