Rachel Flowers (born December 21, 1993) is an American multi-instrumentalist and composer.

Career

Flowers was born 15 weeks prematurely, which resulted in her becoming permanently blind a few weeks after her birth.

Rachel Flowers

Flowers took second place in the student jazz contest at the Ventura Music Festival in Ventura, California, in 2010, and won it the following year.

Rachel Flowers

She has performed with Dweezil Zappa, Arturo Sandoval, Taylor Eigsti, Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, Marc Bonilla, Jordan Rudess, Steve Porcaro, Rick Wakeman, Burt Bacharach, and Bob Reynolds.

Rachel Flowers

A documentary film about her, Hearing Is Believing, was released in 2017.

Discography

2016 – Listen

2017 – Hearing Is Believing (Music from the Soundtrack) 2018 – Going Somewhere 2021 – Bigger on the Inside

References

External links

American multi-instrumentalists

Blind musicians

1993 births

Living people

American women composers

Musicians from Ventura County, California

21st-century American composers

21st-century American women musicians

21st-century women composers

American blind people

American musicians with disabilities