Rachael Price (born August 30, 1985) is an American

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and

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singer, known for her work as the lead singer for the band

Lake Street Dive Lake Street Dive is a multi-genre band that was formed in 2004 at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. The band's founding members are Rachael Price, Mike "McDuck" Olson, Bridget Kearney, and Mike Calabrese. Keyboardist Akie Bermiss j ...

. She was born in

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and grew up in

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, graduating from the

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. She is the great-granddaughter of

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leader

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, the granddaughter of Hollywood actor John Shelton, and the daughter of composer and conductor Tom Price.

Early life and career

Price was born in Australia and raised in

Hendersonville, Tennessee Hendersonville is the largest city in Sumner County, Tennessee, on Old Hickory Lake. The population was 61,753 at the 2020 census. Hendersonville is the fourth-largest city in the Nashville metropolitan area after Nashville, Murfreesboro, an ...

. When she was nine, she performed with The Voices of Baháʼí choir with her sisters Emily and Juliette. At twelve, she was a soloist. The choir toured in India, Europe, South America, Central America, the Caribbean, and Australia. Price has said that she had a large personality as a child and accepted every opportunity to sing. Rachael Price 2022

Price practices the

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, and explains its influence on her musical career this way:

We believe that music is praise, and that is service, and service is prayer, and so that’s how I think about it . . . I think music is an extremely spiritual art form. I do it for praise and gratitude. That’s what the Faith has taught me about music.

She was attracted to jazz at the age of five when she heard

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singing " The Lady is a Tramp". She recorded her first album when she was 17. She admires

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and Nancy Wilson in part for their longevity in the music business. In 2003, Price received an honorable mention at the

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's International Jazz Vocal Competition. In 2004, she was a semifinalist 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

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. 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 appeared in concert as a featured vocalist with the

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Sextet.

Lake Street Dive

Price performs with

, a band she started with Michael Calabrese,

Bridget Kearney Bridget Kearney (kə́ːnɪj, car'-nee) is an American musician and songwriter. She is a founding member of the band Lake Street Dive and winner of the 2005 John Lennon Songwriting Contest in the Jazz category. Kearney's solo recording work beg ...

, and Mike (“McDuck”) Olson, who first met as students at the

. With help from an award by the John Lennon Songwriting Contest, Lake Street Dive recorded ''In this episode...'', their debut album in 2006. They started touring soon afterwards.Wall Street Journal, 22 Aug 201
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released the album ''Side Pony'' in February 2016. Their previous album, ''Bad Self Portraits'', was released in February 2014.

Rachael and Vilray

Rachael Price plus the guitarist and singer Vilray also met as students at the New England Conservatory, in 2003. Under the name Rachael and Vilray, the duo perform jazz, pop, and

Tin Pan Alley Tin Pan Alley was a collection of music publishers and songwriters in New York City that dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It originally referred to a specific place: West 28th Street ...

songs from the 1930s and 1940s. Nonesuch released their self-titled first album in 2019.

Hot Tuna

In 2015 Price toured with

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on the Jefferson Airplane 50th Anniversary tour. She sang

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's parts.

Personal life

Price has been married to Canadian singer-songwriter Taylor Ashton since 2019.

Discography

As leader

* ''Dedicated to You'' (Claire Vision, 2003) * ''From Exile to Exaltation'' (2006) * ''Rachael Price & The Tennessee Terraplanes''; ''Refreshinly Cool'' (2008) * ''The Good Hours'' (Claire Vision, 2008) * ''Rachael & Vilray'' (

, 2019) With

* '' In This Episode...'' (FYO Records, 2006) * '' Promises, Promises'' (FYO Records, 2008) * ''

'' (Signature Sounds, 2010) * ''

Fun Machine ''Fun Machine'' is an EP by Lake Street Dive, released in 2012. It reached number 15 on the Top Heatseekers chart. Reception Writing for Allmusic, music critic Matt Collar wrote of the album "This is buoyant, fun music that combines the group' ...

'' (Signature, 2012) * '' Bad Self Portraits'' (Signature, 2014) * '' Side Pony'' (Nonesuch, 2016) * ''

Free Yourself Up ''Free Yourself Up'' is the sixth studio album by Lake Street Dive. It was released through Nonesuch Records on May 4, 2018 both as a CD and on vinyl and various electronic formats. The album was produced by Lake Street Dive with Dan Knobler. C ...

'' (Nonesuch, 2018) * '' Obviously'' (Nonesuch, 2021) * '' Fun Machine: The Sequel'' (Signature, 2022)

Video

* ''

Live at the Lizard Lounge ''Live at the Lizard Lounge!'' is the first live recording by Lake Street Dive. It was released through their website on August 22, 2011. Reception Writing for ''PopMatters'', Zachary Houle said, "Well, ''Live at the Lizard Lounge'', which was re ...

'' (2011)

References

External links

Lake Street Dive

Rachael & Vilray
{{DEFAULTSORT:Price, Rachael Living people 1985 births People from Hendersonville, Tennessee Jazz musicians from Tennessee New England Conservatory alumni American jazz singers American women jazz singers 21st-century American singers Independent Music Awards winners 21st-century American women singers Lake Street Dive members The Fundies members Australian jazz singers 21st-century Australian singers American Bahá'ís Australian Bahá'ís Australian emigrants to the United States Musicians from Perth, Western Australia