Rachel Flowers | |
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![]() Rachel Flowers with the Taylor Eigsti Trio at the Blue Whale, Los Angeles, California, January 15, 2015 | |
Background information | |
Born | National City, California | December 21, 1993
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Occupation(s) | Musician, composer |
Years active | 2000–present |
Website | rachelflowersmusic |
Rachel Flowers (born December 21, 1993) is an American multi-instrumentalist and composer.
Flowers was born 15 weeks prematurely, which resulted in her becoming permanently blind a few weeks after her birth.
Flowers took second place in the student jazz contest at the Ventura Music Festival in Ventura, California, in 2010, and won it the following year.[1]
She has performed with Dweezil Zappa,[2][3] Arturo Sandoval,[1][4] Taylor Eigsti,[5][6] Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, Marc Bonilla, Jordan Rudess, Steve Porcaro,[7] Rick Wakeman, Burt Bacharach, and Bob Reynolds.[8]
A documentary film about her, Hearing Is Believing, was released in 2017.[9]