Rachel Starshine Robinson

once upon a time, in an enchanted city, a girl-child was ready to be born, made of the true love of two wild, orphaned survivors dreaming the same dream. she promptly declared herself starshine, still remembering where she was from, and she began to be and to breathe and to imagine and to sing. she was shy and she was strange and she was lovely and she was afraid and she was very very brave. she listened and resisted and she loved and she longed and she just kept longing. she loved rambly brambles and tiny white flowers and all things romantic and the life under the sea and moroccan amethysts and the palace at versailles and, well, horses. she made things up. she made everything up. when she could write she wrote poems. poems with words and poems without words. these poems became songs and these songs are for you.

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rachel robinson was born and raised mostly in los angeles, california, though there were brief stints in new york city where her parents moved from. she was saturated with theatre and art and music, as those were the trades of her parents and their community. she started acting and singing as soon as her motor skills would support it and wrote her first song at the age of six or seven - it is love song sung by a cowboy about a woman he wants to marry very badly. she did lots of musicals and was in the choir and they got to go to hawaii and paris and sing in sequined outfits. she went to northwesteen university to study theatre but it was too cold there. the highlight of that experience was when her philosophy professor told her she was a genius in a room of 300 people when she answered a supposedly unanswerable question. she returned to LA and acted in some TV shows like ER and Judging Amy and Star Trek:DS9 and she went to NYC to make a very strange indie film called Loser Love. she went to london and acted in the world's longest play (29 hours) with the legendary director ken campell. returning to LA, the art of auditioning quickly lost its appeal and she began to dream of an escape. after falling in love with a boy-in-a-band she picked up the guitar and returned to music. she wrote songs of longing and heartbreak. people liked them. she began to perform at little clubs in hollywood and recruited her friend from college, cary brothers, to come play with her. they started a band called "the dolores haze" which she fronted. it was a short lived but super-epic indie-pop band, the two songs they recorded got some attention and some film and TV licencing. she then recorded a solo EP which also received such love, and spent some time at the top of the iTunes folk charts, and she continued to play to the warm room that was the beginning of the hotel cafe in hollywood along with many other inspiring songwriters (gary jules, alexi murdoch, catherine feeny, joe purdy, jim bianco, cary etc.). she wrote a superhero love/longing pop song called "rescue me" which she recorded for the end credits of the ivan reitman film My Super Ex Girlfriend starring uma thurman. it's on the soundtrack, check it out it's got a killer bridge. she made a little record on her computer called "the platonica files" which you can hear if you ask her. she toured the west coast up to canada with her dog lula (in vancouver she met another boy and made a brief and amusing musical experiment called "maude"). she toured without lula, also on the west coast opening for the wonderful duo KaiserCartel from brooklyn. she spent a year getting certified as a kundalini yoga teacher and prepared to get the hell out of her beloved home town. she moved to portland oregon. because she found portland oregon. she didn't know. after getting her bearings, she hooked up with some extraordinarily talented people (mark orton of "tin hat trio", jim brunberg, and scott weddle) and made a record. it was, and is, her pleasure.

nice to meet you.