SONGWRITING

Rachel is a GRAMMY considered artist, Billboard Hot 100, UK Chart Top 10, multi-award-winning songwriter.

She is a member of the GRAMMYs and Ivors Academy, the recipient of a prestigious British Citizen Award for contribution to the arts, and was named “a songwriting expert” by BBC Radio Four’s Today Programme. 

As one half of Theatre Builders alongside playwright Eloise Hodder, Rachel is a producer and writer of new British musicals The Circle, Sugarbye and Trapped, Rachel is the winner of the Stiles and Drewe Best New Song Prize 2023 and her work has been described as “ingenious” by Broadway World. Her musical The Circle was chosen by Claude-Michel Schönberg to be featured in his new musicals masterclass in 2024, where he described Rachel’s lyrics as “very clever.” Her song Drown Without Water was also chosen by Elaine Paige to be played on her award-winning BBC Radio 2 show. 

Rachel is a mentor for The GRAMMYs, Help Musicians and the Ivor Novello Academy along with being a member of the LGBTQIA+ council and an ambassador for The FList. She is also a featured artist for Columbia University’s Songcraft Anthology and an executive member of The Songwriters Hall of Fame. 

Named a Woman Of The Year 2020, the only British musician to be inducted into the Indie Music Hall Of Fame, and hailed “an inspiration” by Prince Harry, Rachel is the youngest person to be made a Fellow of the London College of Music by Professional Achievement and is one of the British representatives for the World Choir Council.

As a well-respected music industry judge Rachel has been on the judging panels for Intercontinental Music Awards, The British Short Film Awards, Talent Is Timeless, Sky TV’s Sing: Ultimate A Cappella, The UK Songwriting Contest and many others. 

Rachel has accumulated numerous cuts and has co-written both for and with a diverse range of musicians, both emerging and established artists, across all musical genres.

Many of the songs Rachel has co-written have won multiple awards.

Some of the Artists Rachel has written for and co-written with include: