Rhonda Smith started playing bass at the tender age of 12, when her older brother brought home a bass and told her not to touch it. This union would prove to fulfill her life long fascination and love for the low end. She plays 4,5 and 6 stringed fretless and fretted basses, along with piccolo and acoustic, all of which you can hear on her debut CD Intellipop and on over 10 albums from her 10 year span of discographies and world tours as the bassist with Prince and The New Power Generation (NPG).