Award-winning songwriter Rachael Sage wrote her first song before the age of three, playing “with only my right hand. I still play it at gigs sometimes actually, but I use both hands now!”
A prolific songwriter [influenced by Irish and Middle Eastern music], her seven folk-pop albums are filled with original songs and lyrics that are both poetic and personal. “I write about what I know, mainly,” she says, although some of her songs of heartbreak are written from the other person's point of view, just to change things up a bit.
Don't be surprised that she owns her own record company: she started her first business at only 11 years old, designing and selling hand-decorated barrettes and generating $5,000 in profits before she called it quits.
Sage has earned many awards in her career including the 2005 Independent Music Award for Folk and the 2005 Outmusic Award for Outstanding Songwriter. And unlike many artists, Sage sounds as good or better when playing live as on her studio-produced albums.
Her new CD, The Blistering Sun, is probably her best yet. Her music invites comparisons to Ani DiFranco, (who she toured with as opening act in '98), Sarah McLachlan (Sage was a Lilith Fair talent search winner in '99), Tori Amos and Jill Sobule.
Rachael Sage is built like a dancer or a model, and has the ability to talk without breathing. When we first met for dinner she was dressed in ironic rock star chique: reddish diamond shaped glasses, distressed embellished jeans and tight graphic tee, a glitter belt, bright red lipstick and matching highlights on her brunette stylish messy-on-purpose updo.
For her performance a week later she arrived looking like an East Village princess in a stunning pink hand-beaded corset tied with dark pink ribbons and glittery eye-shadow. She's a personal performer, connecting with everyone in the room during her set, generous with her fans after the show, holding hands with a beautiful woman in the corner as her fans trickle out... a woman that I am pretty sure was not her sister.
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