Rachel Sermanni
Performing at The B.A. Club in Fort William, on 3 March 2011.
Background information
Born	(1991-11-07) 7 November 1991 (age 21)
Origin	Carrbridge, Highland, Scotland
Genres	Contemporary folk
Instruments	Vocals, guitar
Years active	2010–present
Labels	Middle of Nowhere Rough Trade
Associated acts	Fink, Mumford & Sons, Tommy Reilly
Website	rachelsermanni.net

Rachel Sermanni (born 7 November 1991) is a Scottish folk musician from Carrbridge, in Highland. As of 2012, she is a recent addition to the folk scene, but has already toured with a number of well-known folk and indie artists in the United Kingdom. Her first album was released in September 2012.

Biography [link]

Sermanni's grandfather moved from the Italian town of Barga to Scotland at a young age,^[1] the family later settling in Carrbridge, where she grew up with her younger brother. Her father is a police dog handler and her mother works for the National Health Service, helping children with mental health issues.^[2]^[3] She began singing and playing music from an early age in the forms of plays or spoof songs with her younger brother and sister, although at the time she dismissed this as being a normal household environment. Her father taught her to play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star on the penny whistle which eventually lead to the guitar.^[4]

Sermanni was influenced by musicians such as Eva Cassidy, Van Morrison and Bob Dylan and also often talks about vivid dreams that slowly transform into songs. She developed and understood performing when she began listening and performing Scotland's traditional music at school. One of the first songs she wrote at 16 was featured on the first album despite it being four years old by the time of its release.^[5] Later she performed in pubs around Glasgow, where many have a traditional music night. In September 2009 she went to see Mumford and Sons at the Loopallu festival in Ullapool. After the performance, she found them in a pub "and asked them if they wanted to jam", resulting in a jamming session on the beach. In 2011 she supported them at Dingwalls in London.^[6]^[7] Sermanni also toured with Fink on his European tour in 2011, was showcased at the Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow, has supported Elvis Costello and Rumer, and performed at 150 gigs between June 2011 and June 2012.^[8]^[9]^[10]^[11]

Rough Trade Records released a new EP, Black Currents, in February 2012, and in August Sermanni appeared on the BBC Introducing Stage at the Reading Festival. In October she toured Ireland, and on 31 December 2012, she headlined BBC Scotland's annual Hogmanay Live programme, appearing in the Glasgow studio with Frightened Rabbit, Phil Cunningham and Aly Bain.^[12]^[13]^[14]^[15]^[16] Glasgow newspaper, The Herald, chose her as one of their "stars of 2012".^[11] Her first album, Under Mountains, was released on Middle of Nowhere Records and Rough Trade Records in September 2012.^[17]^[18]^[19]

Discography [link]

Albums [link]

Year	Album	Chart peak		Certification
Year	Album	SCO ^[20]	UK Indie ^[21]	Certification
2012	Under Mountains	26	23

Singles and EPS [link]

The Bothy Sessions - EP (2011)
Waltz (2012)
Black Currents - EP (2012)
Eggshells (2012)

References [link]

^ "Rachel Sermanni Interview". James William Houghton. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6p_k8hD4Aw. Retrieved 2012-09-13.
^ "The gender reversal challenge". The Pop Cop. https://thepopcop.co.uk/2010/08/the-gender-reversal-challenge/. Retrieved 2012-09-13.
^ Smith, Aidan (27 December 2012). "Folk Singer Rachel Sermanni on Mumford and Sons and her Debut Album". The Scotsman (Edinburgh). https://www.scotsman.com/the-scotsman/scotland/folk-singer-rachel-sermanni-on-mumford-sons-and-her-debut-album-1-2707813. Retrieved 7 January 2013.
^ "Interview: Rachel Sermanni". For Folk Sake. https://forfolkssake.com/interviews/8907/for-folks-sake-interview-rachel-sermanni. Retrieved 2012-09-13.
^ "Rachel Sermanni". Dublin: Today FM. https://www.todayfm.com/shows/weekdays/tony-fenton/interviews-and-sessions/12-09-25/Rachel_Sermanni.aspx. Retrieved 2012-09-13.
^ "Shockwaves NME Awards Show 2011 with Mumford and Sons". Communion. https://www.communionmusic.co.uk/2011/02/shockwaves-nme-awards-show-2011-with-mumford-and-sons/. Retrieved 2012-09-13.
^ "Rising Star Has the World at her Feet". The Press and Journal (Aberdeen). 2 February 2012. https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22Rachel%20Sermanni%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a&source=hp&channel=np#hl=en&sugexp=les%3B&gs_rn=1&gs_ri=serp&pq=%22the%20guardian%22%20%22rachel%20sermanni%22&cp=18&gs_id=2yr&xhr=t&q=%22Press%22%20%22Journal%22%20%22Rachel%20Sermanni%22&pf=p&client=firefox-a&tbo=d&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB%3Aofficial&channel=np&sclient=psy-ab&oq=%22Press%22+%22Journal%22+%22Rachel+Sermanni%22&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&bvm=bv.1355534169,d.d2k&fp=da51af1112b196c&bpcl=40096503&biw=800&bih=441. Retrieved 7 January 2013.
^ "Rachel Sermanni Interview March 2012". More Than The Music. https://www.morethanthemusic.co.uk/interviews/rachel-sermanni-interview-march-2012/. Retrieved 2012-09-13.
^ "Rachel Sermanni Reveals Debut Album Plan and Excitement at Celtic Connections Return". STV. 5 February 2012. https://programmes.stv.tv/celtic-connections/videos/296047-rachel-sermanni-reveals-debut-album-plan-and-excitement-at-celtic-connections-return/. Retrieved 2 January 2013.
^ "Sometimes I think I won’t be able to write another song ever again". The Pop Cop. https://thepopcop.co.uk/2012/06/sometimes-i-think-i-wont-be-able-to-write-another-song-ever-again-rachel-sermannis-voyage-of-discovery/. Retrieved 2012-09-13.
^ ^a ^b Jamieson, Teddy (7 January 2012). "Stars of 2012: Rachel Sermanni". The Herald (Glasgow). https://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/music/stars-of-2012-rachel-sermanni.1325905474. Retrieved 7 January 2013.
^ "Sermanni, Rachel: Black Currents EP". Rough Trade Records. 13 February 2012. https://www.roughtrade.com/site/shop_detail.lasso?search_type=sku&sku=348254#. Retrieved 7 January 2013.
^ "Reading and Leeds: Rachel Sermanni: Scottish Balladeer Poised to Charm". British Broadcasting Corporation. https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/efmhzc/acts/aqq2fx. Retrieved 2 January 2013.
^ "Hogmanay Live". British Broadcasting Corporation. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pmcb1. Retrieved 2 January 2013.
^ Carroll, Jim (4 October 2012). "New Music: Rival Sons, Rachel Sermanni, Hawklion". Irish Times (Dublin). https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Rachel_Sermanni&action=edit&section=1. Retrieved 7 January 2013.
^ Udell, Phil (19 September 2012). "Incoming: Rachel Sermanni". State Magazine (Kildare). https://www.state.ie/features/incoming-rachel-sermanni. Retrieved 7 January 2013.
^ Dingwall, John (3 August 2012). "Teenage Singer Rachel Sermanni Set to Become Scotland's Next Big Musical Export with Release of Debut Album". Daily Record (Glasgow). https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/music/rachel-sermanni-heads-to-belladrum-festival-1207510. Retrieved 2 January 2013.
^ "Under Mountains: Rachel Sermanni". Amazon. https://www.amazon.co.uk/UNDER-MOUNTAINS-Rachel-Sermanni/dp/B008J2F3BM/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1357139903&sr=1-1. Retrieved 2 January 2013.
^ "Rachel Sermanni: Under Mountains (Review)" (in German). Hamburg: Musikreviews. https://www.musikreviews.de/reviews/2012/Rachel-Sermanni/Under-Mountains/. Retrieved 7 January 2013.
^ "2012 Top 40 Scottish Albums Archive: 29 September 2012". The Official UK Charts Company. https://www.officialcharts.com/archive-chart/_/23/2012-09-29/. Retrieved 7 January 2013.
^ "2012 Top 40 Independent Albums Archive: 29 September 2012". The Official UK Charts Company. https://www.officialcharts.com/archive-chart/_/13/2012-09-29/. Retrieved 7 January 2013.

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Name	Sermanni, Rachel
Alternative names
Short description	Singer
Date of birth	7 November 1991
Place of birth
Date of death
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Rachel

Rachel (Hebrew: רָחֵל, Modern Rakhél, Tiberian Rāḥēl) (Arabic: راحيل‎) was the favorite of Biblical patriarch Jacob's two wives as well as the mother of Joseph and Benjamin, two of the twelve progenitors of the tribes of Israel. The name "Rachel" is from an unused root meaning: "to journey as a ewe that is a good traveller." Rachel was the daughter of Laban and the younger sister of Leah, Jacob's first wife. Rachel was a niece of Rebekah (Jacob's mother), Laban being Rebekah's brother, making Jacob her first cousin.

Marriage to Jacob

Rachel is first mentioned in the Hebrew Bible in Genesis 29 when Jacob happens upon her as she is about to water her father's flock. She was the second daughter of Laban, Rebekah’s brother. Jacob had traveled a great distance to find Laban. Rebekah had sent him there to be safe from his furious twin brother, Esau.

During Jacob's stay, Jacob fell in love with Rachel and agreed to work seven years for Laban in return for her hand in marriage. On the night of the wedding, the bride was veiled and Jacob did not notice that Leah, Rachel's older sister, had been substituted for Rachel. Whereas "Rachel was lovely in form and beautiful," "Leah had tender eyes". Later Jacob confronted Laban, who excused his own deception by insisting that the older sister should marry first. He assured Jacob that after his wedding week was finished, he could take Rachel as a wife as well, and work another seven years as payment for her. When God “saw that Leah was unloved, he opened her womb”, (Gen 29:31) and she gave birth to four sons.

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Rachel Bluwstein

Rachel Bluwstein Sela (September 20 (Julian calendar), 1890 – April 16, 1931) was a Hebrew-language poet who immigrated to Palestine in 1909. She is known by her first name, Rachel, (Hebrew: רחל‎) or as Rachel the Poetess (Hebrew: רחל המשוררת‎).

Biography

Rachel was born in Saratov in Imperial Russia on September 20, 1890, the eleventh daughter of Isser-Leib and Sophia Bluwstein, and granddaughter of the rabbi of the Jewish community in Kiev. During her childhood, her family moved to Poltava, Ukraine, where she attended a Russian-speaking Jewish school and, later, a secular high school. She began writing poetry at the age of 15. When she was 17, she moved to Kiev and began studying painting.

At the age of 19, Rachel visited Palestine with her sister en route to Italy, where they were planning to study art and philosophy. They decided to stay on as Zionist pioneers, learning Hebrew by listening to children’s chatter in kindergartens. They settled in Rehovot and worked in the orchards. Later, Rachel moved to Kvutzat Kinneret on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, where she studied and worked in a women's agricultural school. At Kinneret, she met Zionist leader A. D. Gordon who was to be a great influence on her life, and to whom she dedicated her first Hebrew poem. During this time, she also met and had a romantic relationship with Zalman Rubashov—the object of many of her love poems —who later became known as Zalman Shazar and was the third president of Israel.

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Rachel (singer)

Rachel, born in Cavaillon, Vaucluse, is a French singer best known in Europe for representing France in the Eurovision Song Contest 1964.

Biography

She entered a singing competition organised by Mireille Hartuch who had invited Rachel to her 'Petit Conservatoire'.

She went on to sign a contract with the Barclay Records label, and released her first (45 rmp) recording entitled Les Amants Blessés in 1963.

In 1964, she represented France in the Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen with her entry called "Le Chant de Mallory", which was her greatest hit. She did not win, but scored 14 points and finished in fourth place.