Rachael Price

I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace) Rachael Price grew up in Nashville, TN in a musical family where sing-alongs were a daily pastime. She watched alot of musicals and spent most of childhood imagining she was in one of them. She fell in love with jazz singers at an early age as well as old time country bluegrass, gospel, and soul. Now, Rachael spends her time experimenting within jazz and having a grand ole time doin it.Price has dedicated her life to her love. She is a jazz studies major at the New England Conservatory in Massachusetts. In fact, some great talents in and from Massachusetts have already impacted the young singer. Cambridge-born, multi-Grammy nominated jazz vocalist Nnenna Freelon brought the young singer to the attention of her manager after Freelon heard her in her clinic in Montreux. Now under the tutelage of Dominique Eade at the Conservatory, Rachael is focusing on repertoire, improvisation and style, among other things. And Price is proving that something special in her voice and style is bridging the worlds inhabited by these illustrious tcontemporary vocalists and those of lore and history: noted actress/singer Kathryn Grayson of MGM fame says of Price: "The best young voice I've heard, period. No one around can even touch her voice and style -- a style all her own." In 2003, Price was tapped by the Grammy Foundation as a vocalist with the High School Grammy Jazz Choir, and she was a semi-finalist at the Montreux International Jazz Vocal Competition in France. In 2004, Price wowed the audience (and was the youngest competitor) at the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition.