Artist Description

"Rachael Sage has an inimitable personal style, a balance of flamboyance and femininity...a performance as distinctive as it was entertaining." — The Washington Post

"Dexterous and haunting work, scored with dark emotional hues, rich chromatic chordings and surprising, adventurous changes. Musically sophisticated and accomplished work...standing tall next to any and all contemporary competition." — Philadelphia Daily News

East Village songstress, poet and multi-media maven Rachael Sage has been making gutsy pop music in one form or another since she was three years old.  The Village Voice says she offers "lovely and literate folk-pop-rock."

As a teenager, Sage recorded hundreds of demos in the basement on a four-track (her Bat Mitzvah present), arriving at a provocative lyrical and vocal style. After earning a degree in Drama from Stanford University, Rachael returned to New York and founded MPress Records.  A sleepless Sage wrote, produced and designed artwork for a swift succession of releases, including Smashing The Serene and Painting of a Painting.  In the late '90's she was worked as a jingle-singer and composing music for a steady string of national commercials, before landing a coveted slot at Lilith Fair by entering their New York Talent Search. She started booking her own tours, playing over 150 dates a year throughout the U.S, UK and Europe and earning a sizable fanbase along the way.

As a songwriter, she has been energized by the sensibilities of Elvis Costello, Patti Smith and Laura Nyro;  as a visual artist (Sage also paints, decorates instruments and designs much of her vibrant stage-wear), pop-art pioneers Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and Keith Haring were ongoing visual muses.

After receiving the 2005 Independent Music Award for Best Folk/AAA artist and the 2005 OutMusic Award for Best Songwriter for her CD BALLADS & BURLESQUE, Sage headed back into the studio and emerged with her next full-length work, THE BLISTERING SUN, which will be released in the UK in August, 2008.  She is currently putting the finishing touches on her 8th album, CHANDELIER, to be released in the US in the Spring of 2008. for her previous CD,

New York City songstress Rachael Sage's new solo release, Chandelier , is a musically eclectic affair that covers a myriad of emotions, but always comes back to one central theme: fragility. Sage creates music Judy Collins calls "a great gift of incredible beauty”, while legendary rock producer Tony Visconti has described her as “ incredibly talented…”