Rachael Price
| Rachael Price | |
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| Background information | |
| Born |
August 30, 1985 Perth, Australia |
| Origin | United States |
| Genres | Jazz, blues, indie, alternative, Americana |
| Instruments | Vocalist, Electric Guitar |
| Labels | Claire Vision Productions Signature Sounds Nonesuch Records |
| Associated acts | Lake Street Dive |
Rachael Price (born August 30, 1985) is a jazz vocalist from Hendersonville, Tennessee best known as lead vocalist of the band Lake Street Dive. She is a graduate in Jazz Studies from the New England Conservatory of Music in Massachusetts. Price is the great-granddaughter of creationist and Seventh-day Adventist leader George McCready Price, and the daughter of musician Tom Price.
Price, her older two sisters and brother were born in Australia and raised in Hendersonville, Tennessee. Price performed with The Voices of Bahá choir when she was nine along with her sisters Emilie and Juliette. By the age of twelve she was a soloist. The choir toured in India, Europe, South America, Central America, the Caribbean and Australia. Price says as a child, she had a "big personality" and never said no to an opportunity to sing. Ironically she is less comfortable talking with small groups but that changes when she "communicates with a melody". In song selection or creation, she is lyric driven. She is also comfortable collaborating with others. This started with her father suggesting chord variations on a melody she composed. This continues with Lake Street Dive, that collectively polishes a band member's initial song draft.
Prices says, “jazz hit an inner chord with me at the age of five. I heard Ella Fitzgerald's rendition of The Lady is a Tramp. I didn't understand the lyrics, but I liked the feeling it gave me.” Her father says “By the time she was nine, she sounded just like the classic vocalists of the 40's…she would spend hours singing while pretending she was in some old black and white musical.” Today she claims Bonnie Raitt and Nancy Wilson (jazz singer) as her musical heroes, in part because of their longevity in the business. In 2012 she was listening to The Beatles, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, plus her heroes.
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