Rachel Claudio is a
singer/songwriter
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,
DJ, and
live performing musical artist from
Perth
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, Australia.
Early life
Claudio was born and raised in Perth with an
Italian heritage
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* Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries
** Italians, a Romance ethnic group related to or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
** Italian language, a Romance languag ...
. After establishing herself as a DJ in Perth she moved to
Paris
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, aged around 23.
She performs her music by singing, sampling and mixing live while manipulating an array of musical production technology. Claudio's grandfather impressed her with a fondness for musical styles such as
Italian opera
Italian opera is both the art of opera in Italy and opera in the Italian language. Opera was in Italy around the year 1600 and Italian opera has continued to play a dominant role in the history of the form until the present day. Many famous ope ...
and
The Beatles
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, and she spent a portion of her childhood indoors with piano music, playing and composing.
Career
Claudio has performed for artistic productions such as The Luxury of Landscape, a multi-discipline art installation in
Florence
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Florence ...
, Italy, featuring floral art, photography, music and fashion. Claudio contributed to Luxury of Landscape with a group of artists selected and led by fashion designer and financier Aneka Manners, but alas did not appear at the installation in person, claiming to be "too pregnant to fly" at the time.
Claudio appeared on the French
TF1
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TF1 is part ...
television channel version of
The Voice where she received a standing ovation for singing "
Message in a Bottle
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Messages in bottles have been used to send distres ...
" by
Police
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.
A TEDxPerth live performance and speech by Claudio about translating emotions into sound has received almost 1 million views between February 2017 and March 2020.
Claudio travels the world performing and supporting many popular music acts. Her style of performance is achieved by electronic live sampling with keyboards, creating beats and backing music on the fly and combining them with her singing.
As of 2006, Claudio lives in
Paris, France
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.
Discography
Albums
Extended plays
Awards
WAM Song of the Year
The
WAM Song of the Year
WAM was originally formed as the Western Australian Rock Music Industry Association Inc. (WARMIA) in 1985, with its main aim to develop and run annual awards recognising achievements within the music industry in Western Australia. WAM first recei ...
was formed by the Western Australian Rock Music Industry Association Inc. (WARMIA) in 1985, with its main aim to develop and run annual awards recognising achievements within the music industry in Western Australia.
(wins only)
, -
, 2006
, "These Times"
, Electronic/Dance
,
, -
References
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Australian women singer-songwriters
Australian singer-songwriters
Australian keyboardists
Australian women keyboardists
Australian pianists
Australian women pianists
Australian electronic musicians
Australian women in electronic music
Australian DJs
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people