User:Raquelle Gracie



Raquelle was born on the 11th February, 1988 in Crewe, Cheshire. She began her career in the spotlight at a young age through baby modelling, commercials and musicals. She starred as "Ngana" in "South Pacific" aged 10, then "Cosette" in "Les Miserables" aged 11. Gracie then went on to model for sports brand "Umbro" and then won a role playing "Gemma" in CITV series "Gypsy Girl".

She went on to acheive 4As and 5A*s in her GCSEs at Cheadle Hulme School. After which she moved to London to train in singing, dancing and acting. She graduated from Italia Conti with an A in Theatre Studies and a BA Hons in performing arts.

In 2007, Gracie entered “The X-Factor” as a soloist and at boot camp was put into girl band "Hope". They reached the semi-finals and came 5th in the competition. Following this endeavour, Gracie became the face of "Lipsy" 2008 and the girls went on tour with the X-Factor, playing huge venues and performing in front of sold out crowds often numbering in the tens of thousands of people. After securing management, the girls then toured with Westlife, Boyzone and Shayne Ward. Hope then went on to record a track with Pharrell Williams. No single was released and shortly after the girls went their separate ways.

Gracie continued in the music industry and spent the next year in LA working with many industry names. She recorded and wrote with Randy Jackson, securing a placement with song "Strobelight" for artist Kimberley Locke, which went to #4 on the US dance charts. Gracie also had her song "Take me Away" featured on CSI:NY and wrote "Northern Star" for Japanese star Tania Christopher. She was also the "New Music Tuesdays" host for Dipdive.com, a website run by Will.I.Am.

Gracie was then signed as a solo artist by record label "Sodapop" run by "Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds", there she wrote and recorded over half of her album. However, nothing was released and Gracie is now managed by George Ebenezer and Peter DeBrando Chiesa and resides in London, UK.