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"....in the SoFi area, Hotel St. Augustine has introduced Friday night fanfare with Illumine, a night featuring cocktails, kibitzing and live performances by local dance diva Rachel Panay (''You Make Me Feel,'' "Shine On'').
http://www.miami.com/mld/streetmiami/entertainment/music/ - Lesley Abravanel, Velvet Underground
Discography
"LIVE AT EUPHORIA" JAZZ EP Spring 2008
"REPEAT PERFORMANCE" Maxi Single
Currently #33 on Billboard Club Chart as of June 2008!
"BACK TO LOVE"
Full Album included 5 Billboard Charting Hits and 12 New Tracks on iTunes!
June 2007
"IT'S GOT TO BE LOVE" REMIXES
#15 on Billboard Dance Chart, November 2007
Remixes from Guido Osorio, TNT, Georgie Porgie, Lenny B. & Brian Reyes
"THE REAL THING"
#6 on Billboard Dance Chart, December 2006
Remixes by Josh Harris, DJ Escape, Mynt & more!
"I STILL BELIEVE"
#7 on the Billboard Dance Chart, December 2005
Mixes by Josh Harris, Friscia & Lamboy, Mike Cruz, & Georgie Porgie (Act 2 Records)
"BACK TO LOVE"
#2 on the Billboard Dance Chart, March 2005
Mixes by Josh Harris & Friscia & Lamboy (Act 2 Records)
Licensed for the Queer as Folk Soundtrack on Tommy Boy Records, David Knapp's White Party CD on Centaur Records, the URB compilation of Dance hits 2005, and Jazzercise.
THE WALK OF SHAME
Fireball Compilation mixed by Rosabel
Angelo Kortez Palacio Edit
Centaur Records
GET OFF
Verano 2003 and Power Latin Grooves 2003
BMG Latin America
MonsterTaxi Mixes
YOU MAKE ME FEEL
Recently on 3 Oprah Winfrey episodes!!!
Risque Records
Doug Laurent Radio Remix
Cathe dot Com Exercise Video Series 2003
"SHINE ON"
Dance Files 2003
SFP Records
The Observer Remix
"YOU MAKE ME FEEL"
Loungin, Clubin Compilation
Doug Laurent Remix
BoleroLifestyle, Switzerland
www.bolerolifestyle.ch
LET GO!
Single, Paradise Records, France
DJ Tibo Radio and Club Edits
"YOU MAKE ME FEEL"
Crunch Minidisc Series
Melodylab Mixes
Distributed by Crunch Gym (NY, Boston, Miami, LA, Chicago)
VENUS
Break beat cover version commissioned for video game series, Kombat Bikini Barbie
"GUN OF LOVE"
Washington, DCs WPGC theme song for its "Stop the Violence" campaign
Made available through the radio station and at campaign events throughout the city
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Bio
Rachel attended the original "Fame" school, Duke Ellington High School for the Arts where she was a Dance & Musical Theater major. She then went on to graduate from the prestigious Berklee College of Music with a dual degree in Vocal Performance and Commercial Arranging, graduating Magna cum Laude.
Her interest in diverse musical styles lead her to experiment in the Dance/Electronica genre where she was embraced by audiences & critics alike, and signed by Act 2 Records in 2004.
As a Washington, D.C. native she received a WAMMY for Best Electronica Vocalist in 2005, and was nominated twice for Best Breakthrough Artist at Winter Music Conference's International Dance Music Awards in Miami for 2005 and 2006, and presented during the 2007 ceremony.
As an accomplished Billboard charting songwriter, Rachel was selected as one of eight writers worldwide by performance rights society, BMI, and publisher, The Royalty Network to attend the exclusive writer's retreat in 2007 at Bigyard Studios in Kingston, Jamaica, hit factory to Dancehall/Reggaeton star, Shaggy. She has been invited to attend the retreat again in 2008.
Her songs have provided musical backgrounds for mainstream television shows like the Oprah Winfrey show & Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous & as well as edgy indie films like "Signage" and "A Four Letter" which debuted at the most recent Sundance.
Now with 5 Billboard charting Club singles under her belt spanning from 2004 to 2008, a critically acclaimed full artist album released in June 2007, collaborations with House music greats like Georgie Porgie, Josh Harris & more, Rachel continues to write, record & perform in her homebase of New York City, across America & beyond!
Stay tuned for Rachel's next single slated for release in Fall 2008 already creating buzz amongst DJ's & in those in the know throughout Clubland!
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