Hearing is believing: Rachel Flowers, the incredibly talented blind musician
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.พ. 2021
- In a world filled with noise, there is another sound worth hearing, and her name is Rachel Flowers.
She is a multi-talented instrumentalist and composer born in 1993, fifteen weeks prematurely, losing her eyesight as an infant due to Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP). Rachel began to play the piano at the age of two, endowed with perfect pitch, and became a student of the Southern California University of Music at four. There she also learnt to play the flute, mastered the Braille Music Code and made herself familiar with adaptive computer music applications. She is best known for her TH-cam videos featuring her interpretations of music by Emerson, Lake & Palmer performed as a solo artist on the piano and organ.
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Award-winning producer/director Lorenzo DeStefano was so impressed that he followed Rachel for two years in order to shoot an amazing documentary showing her performing at various venues, playing Las Vegas, demonstrating her gift in schools and composing and playing her own music with a symphony orchestra.
Among the incredible musicians appearing with Rachel in the film are the legendary Stevie Wonder, Grammy winner rocker Dweezil Zappa, the late Progressive Rock icon Keith Emerson, Grammy winning jazz trumpeter Arturo Sandoval, the young Bay Area jazz pianist Taylor Eigsti, and 50 members of the Santa Barbara Youth Symphony performing Rachel's original composition, At The End Of The Day.
Produced & directed by Lorenzo DeStefano
www.lorenzodestefano.com/
Licensed by Poorhouse, 2017
If Rachel is the future of our music (and she is) then the future is in very good hands. What a blessing.
I have been following Rachel on TH-cam for about ten years, now, but it's the first time I see the movie. What a treat ! I always wonder how is it possible to fit such an enormous chunk of talent into this tiny petite bit of a woman. She truly is a treasure !
Yes, absolute prodigy… Musical genius… Just wow!!!
I only recently discovered Rachel through her ELP interpretations. Music from my youth. I loved this documentary. Loved her meeting with Keith Emmerson and Stevie Wonder. Her performance with the Dweezil Zappa band was outstanding. For me the fact that she chooses to play ELP and Zappa really proves that she truely understands music. What an incredible talent. I hope we may enjoy her music for a long time to come.
Words cannot describe…. Awesome is as close as it gets..
Zappa ,and, ELP. Respect. Aiming high and soaring. Go Rachel.
Awesome parents raised an àwesome child...thank you parents!
Aren't they amazing? Rachel could not have had better parents 💖
Rachel is simply amazing !!!
Yes, she is a treasure !!!
One word: Amazing!
I discovered Rachel on youtube about 4 years ago, doing ELP covers, her talent just blows my mind! I love watching her pure joyfulness as she plays, especially when the piece is finished and she's nailed it, lol! What a sweet and beautiful soul she is, love you Rachel Flowers! 🌸💖
Crying 🖤🖤🖤
Si je pouvais lui mettre cent 'like' d'un coup , je le ferais !!! Elle a le plus beau sourire que j'ai jamais vu !!
I love Rachel's music. She has absorbed music history and is adding now to this very history.
Wow! The Mini Ripperton cover. Holy moly. I knew she could play and compose, but wow.
Congratulations to you all for this fantastic video of Rachel...
love it, you are just great Rachel
Thank you for sharing. I will be more aware of my life.
1;14 one of the most elegant,beautiful pieces of instrumental music. Rachel, you are like Mozart…..I have never ever thought that about any new talent ever.
I'm deeply touched by not just Rachel but the family as well. Sorry for the brother his work looks really great but hi is right. Rachel takes the show. However I don't think she wouldn't share anything of it.
he is right...
This is most beautiful. Everything I enjoy,admire and appreciate is in here. A testament of talent and kindness.
Beautiful…..good people they all seem to be. Very inspiring…..
Just perfection to the highest Plane
Perfection to the note. I love her international collaborations playing ELP. JLG
So true ! You nailed it perfectly !
Rachel sees everything. We are the blind ones.
Inspirational.
angels
Lifted me up!
Oh my heart ....
I just discovered Rachel on her collaboration of Hamburger Concerto.I am simply blown away by her talent and playing.Respect in bucketfuls to you Rachel.
ich bin total begeistert! wunderschön... danke!!!
maravillosa
What a great documentary. Such a gifted musician. Please come to Saint Louis.
Inspired again…will stop now gushing and go back to work in my studio….
Bravo
I just heard about Rachel today. Simply put - blown away.
I Love this...Rachel you have come soo far...soo nice to see her giving back to the community as a teacher and inspiration for budding young musicians...soo gratifying to see and hear this on soo many levels...hats off to all who assisted in crafting this absolute confection !Thank you for this...
She is like a angel .
Thank you for sharing. Incredible talent. I found out about her in a german magazine which voted her latest album record of the month, and it seemed a bit odd at first but i see why. Amazing stuff!
Wow what an amzing and touching documentary. I just some monts ago while searching ELP on you tube listened to some of her interpretations of ELP and was blown away. ELP has allways been my all time favourite band. Keith was an amazing musician and composer. And Rachels interpertations are awesome. I didnt know she played the flute and guitar and several other instruments too.As well as singing. So beatifully. Zappa is also one of my favourites. Great musician and composer too. She played the solo in montana extremely well and it actually sounded a lot like the way Frank played the guitar. Just awesome. Very touching and inspiring.
Bless her heart ! I have all my senses and I am so envious, jealous , and so inspired and by Rachel !
She in on such an advanced level of being able to associate to sounds .
*Jeanie , you have such a beautiful voice and Rachel is an extension of you and she has been so gifted , it's beyond brilliant !
And the taste she has in music I can relate to so much . There is so much emotional depth in Keith Emerson's Music , I can easily see how she leaned to his style and creativity .
Rachel my Dear , you are using this miraculous gift and you are so humble !
We all have special talents and you are using them perfectly ! Ride is incredible wave Rachel and it will take you beyond your wildest dreams !
Bless you my Dear ,🙏🙏
❤️🤗
Como toca el piano es fantastico no se mucho de musica pero la felicito Dios la bendiga
No estoy llorando, "me entró algo en los ojos"!
Holey Moley! Mind blowing talent !! GD all he people who falsely claim disabilities!!
This young lady is an amazing talent. I found the keys make too much noise through my headset though.
Wooooooooooooow!
Who gets to play with Dweezil and his incredible band???
Lorenzo,i have so much respect for you !!
Frank is definitely woohoooooing!!!!
How can she see more than I do 👀 ?
Кто-нибудь может рассказать о жизни Рейчел сейчас, жив ли отец, как здоровье матери и так далее?
R A C H EL you are for me a S U N G O D D E S S ciao😊
I think the fact that she’s blind is by the by, she would be incredible if she wasn’t blind so a bit patronising
Rachel is the true ELP I love her playing Keith and Greg are so proud of you to keep the legacy of ELP but the Carl Palmer band they sucks they don’t play on time and the guitarist is a bad singer plus they played kind of heavy metal ELP. With no keyboards is not ELP , sorry Carl you are better with Asia.
Esta versión horrible de la 5 de Beethoven, debería tener mas respeto a su autor, es increíble que respete mas a Emerson que a Beethoven.
I´m with her brother... standing in the shadow... most of the time...