Rebecca (Diane) Wright - Idol Performances

Ballet dancer and teacher, born in Springfield, Ohio, USA. She began ballet training under Josephine Schwarz with the Dayton Ballet, and in 1964 won a Ford Foundation scholarship to study dance. After graduation, she became a principal dancer with the Joffrey Ballet (1966–75) and the American Ballet Theatre (1975–82), partnering some of the finest ballet interpreters of her generation, including Mikhail Baryshnikov, Alexander Godunov, and George de la Pena, who became her second husband. She began a prolific teaching career in the mid-1980s, held a dance professorship at the University of California, Los Angeles, and was director of dance programmes at Adelphi University in Garden City, NY. In 2004 she was appointed director of the Washington School of Ballet.

Rebecca Wright (known on idol as Becks) is from Auckland and was a contestant on season 3 of NZ Idol.

She currently has a band called "The Mermaids" along with former TrueBliss singer and radio DJ Joe Cotton. 25th February 2006 .

Although she was favourite to win, she found herself in the bottom 2 alongside Indira Moala, eventually being eliminated.

Idol Performances

Audition - Because of You, Kelly Clarkson Top 36 - Sunday Morning, Maroon 5 Top 27 - Torn, Natalie Imbruglia Top 18 - Yesterday, The Beatles Top 10 - Lady Marmalade, Patti Labelle Top 9 - Piece of My Heart, Janice Joplin Top 8 - How Do I Live, LeAnn Rimes Top 7 - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Elton John (bottom 2, eliminated)