Rachel Fuller
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| Birth name | Rachel Fuller |
| Born | 24 July 1973 Ipswich, England |
| Genre(s) | Rock, Pop music |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, Musician, Actor |
| Instrument(s) | Piano |
| Label(s) | Various |
| Website | http://www.intheattic.tv |
Rachel Fuller (b. 24 July 1973) is a classically trained British musician. She is a successful independent pop music artist, a webcast host and occasional collaborator with rock musician and partner Pete Townshend.
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[edit] Biography
Born in Ipswich, England, Fuller later moved with her family to Southend-on-Sea. She started playing piano at the age of six and composing music at the age of ten, and her original ambition was to be a concert performer. She attended St. Michaels, a private school in Leigh, where her mother was the school deputy. At fifteen Fuller won an organ scholarship to Oxford[citation needed], but turned it down, explaining that she would not feel comfortable there.
Rachel Fuller's teenage years were filled with numerous music competitions, songwriting with her best friend Mikey Cuthbert and a lengthy stint as an organist in a funeral home, where she performed up to eleven times a day.
[edit] Musical Career
Rachel met The Who's Pete Townshend in 1996, and they currently reside in Richmond, England. Rachel's orchestral works have been recorded by the London Chamber Orchestra and she has also orchestrated music for Pete Townshend's The Lifehouse Chronicles album, and subsequent concerts at London's Sadler's Wells Theatre.
With Townshend she co-wrote a song titled "It's Not Enough" featured on The Who's recent studio album, Endless Wire. This song also appeared in Pete Townshend's musical The Boy Who Heard Music, along with the song "I Can Fly," written solely by Fuller. She also collaborated with Delerium, performing her own track "Touched" on their 2003 Nettwerk release Chimera. Cigarettes and Housework, her first album, was released in 2005. Shine her second effort, was released in 2006.
She appeared as a sidekick to her friend Jerry Hall on VH1's reality program Kept.
[edit] In The Attic
Beginning in 2005, Fuller hosted the show In The Attic, a live webcast of music and guests, including The Flaming Lips, E, The Raconteurs, Foy Vance and Martha Wainwright from Townshend's Oceanic studios in London and also from the road at U.K. summer music festivals. Though casual in presentation, the broadcasts utilise state-of-the-art satellite broadcast technology and they are an attempt to change the way live performances of musical artists can be accessed.
In 2006 and 2007, Fuller went on tour with The Who, producing live webcasts of In the Attic and performing her own music live at various venues, including South by Southwest in Austin, Texas. Information on availability of these shows can be found on her official website Attic IntraVision.
