Rachael Price
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| Rachael Price | ||
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| Background information | ||
| Born | 1985 | |
| Origin | Australia  |
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| Genre(s) | Jazz | |
| Instrument(s) | Vocalist | |
| Label(s) | Nonesuch | |
| Website | rachaelpricesings.com | |
Rachael Price (born 1985) is a jazz vocalist from Hendersonville, Tennessee. She is completing her final year as a jazz studies major at the New England Conservatory in Massachusetts. Price is the great-granddaughter of anti-evolutionist and Seventh-day Adventist leader George McCready Price, and the daughter of the musician Tom Price.
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[edit] Solo achievements
In 2003, Price received an an honorable mention at the Montreux Jazz Festival's International Jazz Vocal Competition. In 2004, Price was a semi-finalist and the youngest competitor in the history of the Thelonious Monk Institute Vocal Competition. In August 2004 she made her U.S. jazz festival debut at Yale’s Jazz On The Green where she opened for Joshua Redman. She won the 2006 Independent Music Award for Best Gospel Song with her recording of My God, My Adored One with the Boston Praise Collective. She regularly appears in concert as a featured vocalists with the T. S. Monk Sextet, and is currently working with Grammy Award winning record producer KC Porter.
[edit] Lake Street Dive
Price also performs with Lake Street Dive, a four-piece Boston band she formed three years ago with Mike Olson, Michael Calabrese and Bridget Kearney, who were students at The New England Conservatory a "free country band"--as in country music, played free. This concept was quickly abandoned in favor of country music, played in an edgy, loose fashion.
With the help of an award from The John Lennon Songwriting Contest, Lake Street Dive recorded their debut CD in 2006, "in this episode..."
[edit] Discography
- Dedicated to You (2003)
- From Exile To Exaltation (2006)
- ...in this episode (2006) (Lake Street Dive)
[edit] Trivia
- Price is a member of the Bahá'í Faith.
