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Artist's or Band's Name: Rachel Bockover

City & State: Santa Rosa CA

Country: USA

Music Genre(s):: Folk-Alternative

Bio:: Rachel Bockover is a young singer-songwriter with a unique and influential style. The multi-talented singer songwriter, plays several instruments, belly dances, and makes her own music, and art videos for her YouTube channel www.youtube.com/fieonyou78. Already an influential and accomplished performing/recording artist, Rachel is a significant new voice in music. Music was a constant in Rachel’s family life, given that her father is an audio engineer and composer who played guitar with the late, great Norton Buffalo, and her folksinger mother raised the children with song. With such a musical family tradition, Rachel’s creative talent was always encouraged. At age 13, she began playing piano and guitar in earnest, and writing her own songs, as well as developing as a dancer and performer. At 16, Rachel stepped out as a singer-songwriter; she continued to write and went on to perform at larger events, including the popular Strawberry Music Festival and the annual Harmony Festival, the most well attended annual arts event in Sonoma County. Rachel writes introspective, soulful ballads incorporating her unique vocal melodies, along with ethnic rhythms and modern semi-acoustic musical styles. Her style is best described as folk-nouveau, with alt-rock, Native American ceremonial music, world, Goth-folk, and Celtic elements. Working with award-winning producer/engineer, Paul Carlsen, Rachel recently released her first studio project, titled My Evil Twin, available www.myspace.com/rachelbockover, Rachel is currently in the studio finishing her first full length studio album to be released in 2011, and will be touring regionally in CA. With an original and compelling style, Rachel Bockover is an artist with a contemporary story to tell and a stark, modern, original sound with subtle ethnic and spiritual touches.