Raquela

Raquela refers to either: 1) American singer/songwriter. 2) Maltese singer. 1) RAQUELA is an American Billboard Dance Music recording artist known for her LIVE and powerful Real Singer Experience performances. Before that she was an award winning singer/actress performing leading roles on Broadway. Her powerhouse House/Dance vocals have gotten her to open for Diva's like, Deborah Cox, Lady Gaga, Lisa Lisa, Crystal Waters, Kristine W, and many more. Raquela's cover release of Taylor Daynes, TELL IT TO MY HEART ruled the Top 40 charts on DJ Times for 28 weeks straight! RAQUELA has worked with extreme DJ/Producer crossover legends like, Chris 'The Greek', Rod Carrillo, Tony Moran and Leo Frappier, but her finest collaboration was with House Godfather, MICKEY Mixin' OLIVER. Together, NOTHIN' MORE TO GIVE topped Billboard’s Hot Dance Club charts for several weeks! Her tracks frequently get spun in popular New York dance clubs like Cielo, Sullivan Room and National underground, as well as hyped clandestine parties like, Verboten and Trilogy. Aside from deeply rooting herself in the New York scene, since her career began in 1999, she has toured all over the United States to perform for dance music lovers everywhere. Her music is in regular rotation in global venues like, Nikki Beach, Pacha, Naked Club, Living, Nocturnal and Taiga Sky. Despite the hectic travel schedule, this native Californian and life long musician is adamant about making time in the studio for her own productions. Since releasing her first EP in 2004 on SuperGroove Records, Raquela has released records on, Water Music (Sony), Hot Mix 5 Records, CAPP Records and ISV Entertainment. You can check out Raquela's latest releases on iTunes, CD Baby or Amazon, but she would rather you kept a good close eye on her at, RAQUELA.com 2) Raquela is a singer from Malta, who has competed a number of times at the Maltese National Selection for the Eurovision Song Contest. In 2011, her song If I could do it all again is one of the 24 selected songs to compete to represent Malta in the Eurovision Song Contest. The song was penned by Marc Paelnick (music) and Mathias Strasser (lyrics). Her 2010 participation was penned by Maltese Eurovision veterans Philip Vella and Gerard James Borg, called Here I am, but failed to progress to the final. Previously, in 2009, her song Crossroads qualified to the Maltese final and ultimately ended up on 11th place with 71 points. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.