1. Rachel Fuller Townshend was born on 24 July 1973 and is a British musician.
15 Facts About Rachel Fuller
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Rachel Fuller is a pop music artist, a composer, and occasional collaborator with her husband rock musician Pete Townshend.
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Rachel Fuller 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.
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Rachel Fuller attended St Michael's, a private school in Leigh, where her mother was the school deputy.
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The track "Around This Table" featured a spoken vocal from her friend Jerry Hall, who invited Rachel Fuller in turn to appear as her sidekick on VH1's reality program Kept.
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Rachel Fuller has collaborated with Delerium, performing her own track "Touched" on their 2003 Nettwerk release Chimera.
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In 2006 and 2007, Rachel 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.
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In July 2008, feeling she had been neglecting her singer-songwriter side, Rachel Fuller embarked on an ambitious week-long journey to record a full album while staying in her flat in Kew, west London, limiting her excursions to its few local shops.
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Rachel Fuller shared the flat with no one aside from Townshend's dog, Wistle, and online fans following each step of the process via a dedicated 'Week In Kew' website.
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Rachel Fuller crafted one song each day, writing lyrics on the walls of the flat and documenting the experience in the website blog.
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Rachel Fuller involved her fans by providing interactive services including a live chat room and forum where users could leave feedback and listen to song samples as they were produced.
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At the close of her week in Kew, Rachel Fuller made the entire album available for free on the website.
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The songs are a reflection of the artistic process Rachel Fuller experienced, joining personal stories with observations and reflections on her time spent in Kew, as well as an homage to her chat room fans.
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On 11 August 2008, a workshop performance of Rachel Fuller's musical Ash was performed at the Arcola Theatre in Dalston Kingsland, North-East London, as part of the Grimeborn Festival.
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Rachel Fuller is a dog lover and is affiliated with PAAWS Antigua, a non-profit animal rescue shelter in Antigua and Barbuda.