1. Rachael Sage was born on Karen Rachael Weitzman in 1971 and is an American singer-songwriter and visual artist.
18 Facts About Rachael Sage
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Rachael Sage is the founder of indie label MPress Records.
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Rachael Sage studied theater with professors such as playwright Anna Deavere Smith, and graduated in 1993 with a degree in drama.
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Rachael Sage's career includes the writing of jingles and theme music for film and television; her first notable jingle customer was Crystal Light.
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Rachael Sage began using the name "Rachael Sage" in 1995, and in 1996 she started her own record label, MPress Records, inspired by Ani DiFranco founding Righteous Babe Records six years earlier.
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Rachael Sage toured Europe four times and released four more albums.
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Rachael Sage wrote an editorial about homeless youth in New York City for The Morton Report.
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Rachael Sage appears on Both Sides Now: the Very Best of Judy Collins, performing a duet with Collins on the Neil Young song, "Helpless".
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On May 20,2016, Rachael Sage released her 12th studio album, Choreographic, on MPress Records, featuring some of the songs that she wrote to accompany dance competition routines for Maddie Ziegler.
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On March 6,2020, Rachael Sage released her 14th studio album, Character.
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Rachael Sage's sister Elizabeth is a film critic and children's book author in New York.
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Rachael Sage told Curve magazine in 2020 that she came out to her parents as bisexual in the mid-1990s.
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Rachael Sage said her songs portray her "full-range of life-experience, including having loved both men and women".
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Rachael Sage has been celebrated by the LGBT community, winning OutMusic Awards multiple times, hosted by the LGBT Academy of Recording Arts.
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In 2018, Rachael Sage was treated for uterine cancer; she was in remission two years later when she organized an online benefit concert to fight cancer, with appearances by Lisa Loeb, Paula Cole and more.
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Rachael Sage stayed in New Haven, Connecticut, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Rachael Sage has received numerous awards and nominations, which includes winning the John Lennon Songwriting Contest in 2001, three wins at The Great American Song Contest, and six wins at the Independent Music Awards.
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Rachael Sage started MPress Records in 1996 to release her own music.