3/22/11 - Watch for Rebecca on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Tuesday March 22nd, 2011 @11:35pm 10:35pm central
Rebecca Black is a fun, loving, 13 year old. She loves to sing, dance and act, and she is always looking to try something new. Now in 8th grade, she landed the lead role in her school musical, Oklahoma! She started dance classes when she was three years old and has continued studying dance since. She studied Jazz, Ballet, Hip Hop, and Tap.
She starred in a local commercial when she was 7 for the building toy Puzzlecraft. She participated in a patriotic performing group. performing at over 50 locations including singing the Star Spangled Banner at the Angels Stadium. At age 11, she signed with a modeling management company. She started vocal lessons at 10 years old, and she's continued with it ever since.
Singing is her passion, and it's what she loves to do. In the summers of 2008 and 2009 she participated in a musical theatre summer camp. When she started going to her local public school, she immediately auditioned for musical theatre, and now succeeds with flying colors. She starred in the school's rendition of Guys and Dolls, and their variety shows such as Showtime America, Broadway, USA, and Star Search.
This past summer, she visited New York and participated in various workshops with cast members of West Side Story, Memphis, and In the Heights.
(source: http://www.rebeccablackonline.com/)
Early life and career
Rebecca Black was born on June 21, 1997, in Anaheim Hills, a neighborhood in northeast Orange County, California.[4] An honor student, Black studied dance, auditioned for school shows, attended music summer camps, and began singing publicly in 2008 after joining the patriotic group Celebration USA.
In late 2010, a classmate of Black and music-video client of Ark Music Factory, a Los Angeles vanity record label, told her about the company.Black received popular attention in March 2011 after a single she recorded and produced with the ARK Music Factory, "Friday", was released on YouTube and iTunes. The song's video was uploaded to YouTube on February 10, 2011, and received approximately 1,000 views in the first month. The video went viral on March 11, 2011, acquiring millions of views on YouTube in a matter of days, becoming the most-talked-about topic on social networking site Twitter, and garnering mostly negative media coverage. As of March 22, 2011, first-week sales of her digital single were estimated to be around 40,000 by Billboard, and the video attracted over 44 million views on YouTube as of March 24, 2011. Black appeared on the March 22, 2011 episode of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, during which she performed the single and discussed the negative reaction to it. The song has debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 and the New Zealand Singles Chart at number 72 and 33, respectively. In the UK, the song debuted at number ten on the indie singles chart.
