Proficient performer Rachel White from Kinross has a bumper schedule to stay up for.
The 12 months 2022 is proving to be a breakthrough time as Rachel, who's in two Edinburgh Fringe reveals, launches her second music single this month in addition to getting ready to carry out in London’s West Finish.
The 26-year-old, a former pupil of Kinross Excessive Faculty, is a graduate of the MGA Academy of Performing Arts in Edinburgh.
After wowing TikTok followers together with her rendition of Tina Turner’s ‘Merely The Finest’, on July 29 she launched a single for obtain on all main platforms — simply days earlier than the curtain was as a result of rise on her Fringe efficiency in Massive Band Does…Broadway by BBD Productions.
After that run closes on August 14, she is going to then be centre stage for Divas, additionally at The Rose Theatre in Edinburgh, the place she is going to give solo performances of ‘Consider’ by Cher, ‘Like A Prayer’ by Madonna, and Idina Menzel’s ‘Into The Unknown’ from Frozen.
“After such a busy 12 months, I needed to get again into theatre, and it’s nice to be again in Edinburgh,” mentioned Rachel, based mostly again dwelling in Kinross throughout her Fringe stint however who usually now calls London dwelling.
“I need to stick with it balancing stage work with recording as I get such a buzz from each.
“The previous 12 months has been a ‘good’ sort of busy, as I’ve been concerned in musical workshops and reveals, and I want to proceed taking place the street.
“Producing music and being in a present is the place I need to be. Happiness comes first, and so long as having fun with what I’m doing then I’ll stick with it.
“For my stage work, I’m fortunate to be represented by a superb company, however in my music I've no supervisor and no label — simply me!”
That is all in a 12 months the place Rachel’s self-written recordings of ‘You Don’t Need Me Anymore’ and ‘No Label’ every featured as BBC Radio Scotland’s Single of the Week and she or he featured in ITV2 courting present, The Cabins, which aired in January.
“I feel I’m scarred from courting since being in The Cabins,” she revealed. “However, being on that present made sense as my music has been about relationships, and being on TV boosted my social media following. It’s been some 12 months!”
Within the pipeline for the multi-disciplined, multi-talented younger star is one other new music launch — a Spotify unique launch of ‘Something However You’ on August 12 — and hopes that a London present known as Chase The Musical, the place Rachel recorded alongside the likes of JLS’s Aston Merrigold, is picked up by West Finish producers.
She additionally has ambitions of launching a headline present in Edinburgh based mostly on her music as a singer-songwriter.
Rachel started performing when she was a toddler, however credit the MGA Academy of Performing Arts with giving her the tutoring, help and confidence to pursue an expert profession within the business.
The college was established in 2005 to offer a platform for aspiring performers to stay in Scotland whereas finding out at a degree equal to prestigious London faculties.
It now attracts aspiring performers from across the UK and throughout Europe and is at the moment recruiting for its 2022-23 consumption for BA (Hons) Dance, Musical Theatre, and Appearing, with auditions for coveted locations set to happen on Sunday, August 7 and on-line thereafter.
Faculty principal Marcella Macdonald mentioned: “Right here on the MGA Academy of Performing Arts, we're so happy with Rachel for all she has achieved since graduating in 2018.
“We take nice satisfaction in nurturing uncooked expertise, and it’s all the time a pleasure to see our college students develop the talents wanted to pursue such profitable careers within the business.”