RACHEL FARO

Rachel Faro is an accomplished singer, songwriter, record producer, film music consultant and record label executive.  She has recorded three albums: for RCA, 'Refugees' and 'Rachel Faro'; 'Windsong', appears on Germany's Blue Flame Records and Vermont's Silverwolf Records.  As a singer and poet her lyrics, set in classic country folk pop compositions, reveal sources as diverse as ancient Chinese poetry, Cuban and Native American gods and spirits, the politics of India and the fall of the stock market. 

Rachel is also a well-known producer of Cuban, Latin, jazz, blues, folk and world music recordings with artists as varied as Odetta and Eddie Palmieri.  She has produced over thirty albums, three of which have received Grammy nominations.  She is the founder and president of Ashe Records, a well-respected world music record label.  She is also the proud mother of singer/songwriter Anandi and a long-time practitioner and teacher of Tibetan and Shambhala Buddhism.