Rachel Constanzo hasn’t been to Tasmania yet but tells me as we chat that she wishes she could go on holiday there.
However, for this lovely young lady who is only 17, still at school and juggling a burgeoning career as a pop star, with school and gigs there isn’t much time for a holiday.
We had spoken last year about Rachel’s first single ‘Blindside’ and Rachel tells me of an interesting fact regarding the song, of how, one day Fox FM’s computers had broken down and Rachel was brave enough to call the channel managers and ask them to play her single ‘Blindside’. What followed was a request for an interview with her and some airplay for the single!
Rachel’s new single ‘Starlight’ was inspired by her being tired of going to school and wanting to escape for 3 minutes, the length of a song, hence ‘Starlight’ was filmed outside the escapist areas of Luna Park and The Palais Theatre. Rachel says the people of St Kilda were very ‘kind and mindful’ of the cameras during the shoot.
An interesting fact relating to ‘Starlight’ is that Rachel cast her real friends to play her friends in the video, which gives the clip a wonderful, natural feel of friends having fun in each other’s company.
Rachel, in spite of her pop career speeding ahead, as noted before, still attends school, where she takes two music classes among the other conventional classes or as she calls it ‘boring stuff!’
Rachel says she can’t imagine what she would do if she wasn’t planning on a career in music. Music is Rachel’s number 1 passion and with the Constanzo name meaning ‘constant’ or ‘steadfast’ it would seem she is well on the way to achieving her passion. Further testimony to her steadfastness is that she has been playing the piano for 8 years and the guitar for 2. She says if she wasn’t doing music maybe she would be working at Kmart or perhaps planning a future as a music teacher.
Rachel will be performing at the Teen Expo at Melbourne on Thursday August 28 and Friday August 29.
You can view the clip to Starlight here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOip8syiPww
Paula Xiberras
