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Biography
Fifteen-year-old Rachael Lampa loves the pop divas: Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Whitney Houston and their like. But this 4’ 10” diva-in-the-making had to tape the *Divas* TV special to watch later; a phone interview with an entertainment journalist kept her up past her bedtime, and her first period Spanish class starts at the un-lovely hour of 7:30 a.m. “I don’t mind it,” she insists. “I’m a morning person...after 10 minutes, I’m fi | Rachael's first tour with Plus One and Stacie Orrico.y given 10th-grader at Monarch High in Louisville, Colorado, near Boulder. “I get up at 6:30, crawl to the shower, dry my hair, finish my homework from the night before,” says Rachael, a typical American suburban teenager who occasionally peppers her usually articulate conversations with “like, you know?” and this-or-that “thingy.” Talking with Rachael is like talking with any other happy, well-adjusted adolescent girl, for the most part. There’s basketball; she’s a stand-out point guard on the girls’ jr. varsity team (“I love playing, but I don’t watch it on TV--it bugs me”), church (“I love my church...our youth group leader is so cool...”) and school (“My favorite subject is lunch—it’s very educational. I taught myself how to peel an orange in one piece with an aluminum pop-top”).
But Rachael Lampa, the Monarch High point guard and champion orange peeler, and Rachael Lampa, the budding pop diva, would seem to have very different schedules. Sports and school lunches had to wait when Rachael went to London for the recording of the prestigious London Session Orchestra’s contribution to her much-anticipated Word Records CD, Live For You. The church youth group and Fellowship of Christian Athletes met without her when Rachael stayed in Nashville for meetings with some of Music City’s most successful songwriters. And her brother Ryan drove to Monarch High by himself the week that Rachael flew to Nashville to record a duet with the legendary Aaron Neville, an event that seemed almost ho-hum until Rachael was told about Neville’s famed duet with one of her heroes ("THAT’s him? The guy who sings ‘Don’t Know Much’ with Linda Ronstadt? I’m singing with HIM? Oh my gosh!"). >next page> back |