A GRAMMY balloted artist, the recipient of a prestigious British Citizen Award for contribution to the arts, named “a songwriting expert” by BBC Radio Four’s Today Programme and a Recording Academy voting member, Rachel Walker Mason is a multi-award-winning musician currently writing songs with Grammy, Emmy and Ivor Novello award winners, The Voice UK and American Idol alumni, Oscar nominees, MOBO and BRIT Award nominees, AMA UK and Independent Country Music Association Awards winners.  Rachel is the writer of the music and lyrics for The Circle, a new musical, one of the songs from which is a finalist for the Stiles and Drewe Best New Song 2023 Award. Rachel is also a mentor for The GRAMMYs, Help Musicians and the Ivor Novello Academy. She is also a featured artist for Columbia University’s Songcraft Anthology and an executive member of The Songwriters Hall of Fame.  Rachel has written with hundreds of artists including Jamie Lawson, The Puppini Sisters, Luke Concannon (Nizlopi, Ed Sheeran), Lloyd Hinshelwood (Mabel, Fleur East, Izzy Bizu) Karl Morgan (Sam Ryder, Olly Murs) Mary Leay (Becky Hill, Cher) Luke Jackson (Amy Wadge) Gregor Philp (Deacon Blue).  Named a Woman Of The Year 2020, the only British musician to be inducted into the Indie Music Hall Of Fame, and hailed “an inspiration” by Prince Harry, Rachel is the youngest person to be made a Fellow of the London College of Music by Professional Achievement and is one of the British representatives for the World Choir Council. As a well-respected music industry judge Rachel has been on the judging panels for Intercontinental Music Awards, The British Short Film Awards, Sky TV’s Sing: Ultimate A Cappella, The UK Songwriting Contest and many others.  GRAMMY®️ Voting Member Multi-award-winning musician Winner of Album Of The Year 2020 www.rachelwalkermason.com<a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/2020328/support">Support the show</a>

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