Rebecca Chapa

Bicoastal & Soulful Singer Songwriter Who would have thought that a young girl who grew up in Westchester County, New York would have such a love for country music. Rebecca Chapa was born to a Polish/Lithuanian mother far removed from her cultural heritage, and a Mexican father who came to the United States as part of the Bracero Program when he was 13. Despite his heritage and the fact that the family owned Mexican restaurants, Chapa’s childhood was devoid of musical influences from both cultures other than listening to the mariachis weekly at their Sunday dinners at the restaurant. Still her childhood was steeped with music. Throughout the journey through music Chapa was guided by classical influences of her mother’s love of traditional music, the love of her maternal grandfather for classical compositions and the unique musings of a choir conductor, Nancy Zarowin, who was always up for a surprise, such as prepping her choir with everything from Spirituals (Ain’a That Good News sung at Sacre Coeur in Paris in Chapa’s senior year of high school), and a Latin Mass sung at Chartres cathedral during a Sunday Mass. This diverse background makes Chapa’s music hard to define yet accessible to multiple ears. She has an innate spirituality that often comes across as a bit preachy but is not meant to be so… She loves the purity of bluegrass and the truth presented in the lyrics of country music. As a writer her honesty shines through each piece she writes. She is comfortable knowing that what she writes will resonate differently in every listener and just hopes that it will touch a chord in each and every one. American Songwriter Magazine has granted Rebecca Chapa an honorable mention in the March/April 2016 Lyric Contest for her song “Carpe Diem”. Chapa was recently selected as one of 300 artists to perform in the EON ONE Take contest performing an original song... one song one take. http://www.eononetake.com

San Francisco, CA