Rebecca Martin (born April 24, 1969) is an American singer and songwriter from Rumford, Maine.Martin was a young girl when she left her rural hometown of Rumford, Maine to pursue her musical ambitions in New York, where she met fellow singer-songwriter Jesse Harris. The duo formed the group Once Blue, which won a recording contract with EMI. Once Blue's 1995 debut release won international acclaim, but a second album remained unreleased until 2003.Martin launched her solo career in 1998 with Thoroughfare, written and produced by Martin. In 2002, she produced a collection of standards, Middlehope, which The New York Times named one of the year's ten best jazz albums. In 2004, Martin released another album of original compositions, People Behave Like Ballads. Wikipedia