RAKEL

There are three artists named Rakel: 1- Rakel is a Spanish dance progressive vocalist. She began singing at high school and playing guitar with her classmates. She learned to sing and started a solo career in Amen Project and the hit "Never Alone". Another works are: DESTINY: “No Return” (A.Bernal y L.A Rivera) - FUN TEAM DJ..S FEAT. RAKEL: “Estás en mi corazón” - FUN TEAM DJ..S FEAT. RAKEL: “Love me baby” - DJ JUAN MARTINEZ PRESENTS RAKEL: “ I gave you my life” - RAKEL: “Hello”(Planeta Mix Records) - RAKEL: “Dance with me”(Incluido en el album: Italian vocals) - BELLEZA: “Yo no te pido la luna”(interpretado con Juan Martínez) - LEO BLANCO Y SANTI LAFONTE FEAT. RAKEL: “Stay Tonight” - RAKEL - ESTAS EN MI CORAZON 2008 ( Planeta Mix Records ) - RAKEL - DESTINY ( Planeta Mix Records )

2- Rakel is a singer/songwriter from Medellin, Colombia. Rakel is the youngest of 4 siblings, and the only female. At a young age she took her first guitar and singing lessons, although she always focused on singing and this led to her joining the school choir. At 7 she played piano for the first time and continued doing it without any formal musical education, always hiding from her father as he didn’t want her to become a musician by any means. At 18 she started studying classical piano and saxophone, while at the same time studying Visual Arts at the ‘National University’ and the Bellas Artes institute in Medellin. Continuing with her desire to increase her knowledge in different branches of the arts, Rakel decided to study Fashion Design at the Colombian Design College and while studying there, she launched her own clothing line, Stylöide, which is currently one of the best recognized fashion brands in her home town. As a Fashion Designer she received numerous awards at different runway shows and trade fairs. She likes to read, cook and learn about new cultures. She has been studying Kabbalah for 4 years. In 2008 she met Iker Gastaminza, a well-known producer, 5 times Latin Grammy award winner, who heard Rakel sing and suggests recording an album that will expose her essence and her distinctive way of expressing herself through music. Rakel took a year to prepare her departure from her company Styloïde, and during that time she moved to New York and started writing her first songs. At the end of 2009 she decided to venture into this project which later became her first musical production “Milagros Orgánicos” (Organic Miracles) and in 2010 she traveled to Miami to start recording the album and to continue writing. For her first album, Rakel was inspired to write her own songs in collaboration with important composers from the Latin music industry, including Cristian Zalles, (who worked with different artists like Ednita Nazario, Ricardo Arjona, Chayanne, Olga Tañón, Ricardo Montaner), Juan Gabriel Turbay (Andrés Cepeda, Melina León), Javier García (Ricky Martin and Gloria Estefan), Sebastián Yepes, a former member of the colombian band San Alejo, who pursued a solo career 3 years ago, composed the song ‘Entre Nosotros’ singing it as a duet with Rakel; the renown composer Jorge Luis Piloto author of songs like “Yo no sé mañana” “Que Le Den Candela” “Falsas Esperanzas” among other songs and a cover of the well known song by Alaska y Dinarama ‘Ni Tú Ni Nadie’. Her first single “Lo Que Respiras” was well accepted by colombian radio and college radio throughout the U.S. The well known director Simon Brand (Enrique Iglesias, Chayanne, Ricky Martin, Juan Luis Guerra, Juanes) was in charge of directing the video for this song, which was launched during March 2011. ‘Lo Que Respiras’ went into rotation on the different international music video channels. The same reaction was received with her second single “En El Tiempo”. The video for this song was directed by Kenneth O’Brien Llontop and it’s still on rotation on the different international video outlets.