Rebecca Pronsky and I started making music together after the 2016 election to heal. Our chat covers pizza, Bach choir, our Hillary Clinton musical, Candidate Jams, dark matter, and emerging from the pandemic chrysalis.
Rebecca Pronsky is a songwriter, singer, producer and music concept artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She graduated from Brown University where she studied Ethnomusicology. She subsequently spent a decade touring as a singer songwriter in the folk and country scene. During this time, she released four critically acclaimed records, including 2013’s Only Daughter which made the “Top Ten Country Albums of the Year” list in the UK’s The Telegraph.
In the wake of the 2016 election, Rebecca turned her focus toward satire and political comedy, writing a concept album and feminist cabaret show about Hillary Clinton’s inner world. The piece was performed at the NY International Fringe Festival, as well as at many fundraisers for Democratic candidates seeking election in the 2018 midterms. In 2019, Rebecca moved onto writing and recording a series of one-minute songs for each of the candidates seeking the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
In the spring of 2020, as the Covid virus surged in New York City, Rebecca wrote and produced a documentary podcast following the lives of three households through a challenging, months-long “stay-at-home order.” She also began a more lighthearted video project of edible plant jingles, combining her love of foraging with singing. Rebecca’s holiday single “The Last Season” closes out 2020 with a wish for us all to find strength through these last, darkest months of Covid.
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