All About The Real Rachael Gordon

I’m an American girl who was born and raised and grew up in a little house over the ocean in San Diego California.

I surfed, I rode my beach cruiser bike up and down the boardwalk, I roller skated, I jumped off "the clam" in La Jolla and I was in by 8pm every night.

My father's mother was a Meglin Kiddie, so she had a big part of my upbringing as my very young hippy parents had “no say” in the matter of me being a performer, which is what she had planned. She had me dancing with the best dance teacher in San Diego starting at age 2. I was featured once a week on a children’s tv show, singing and dancing at recitals. I was a majorette at 8, and I danced until age 14.

With that training I believed I’d be a singer, dancer, actress and comedian as my favorite thing to do besides dancing was making people laugh. I’d do impersonations and little skits for family and friends and it always came naturally. I also sketched and took a great interest in fashion and paid close attention to vintage clothing. So when the Bugsy Malone musical came out, I thought it was the most exciting thing I’d ever seen and started paying much more attention to my drawing and fashion illustrations which stemmed from two of my favorite artists as a child, Aubrey Beardsley and Peter Max. I would make make several sketches a day no matter what else I was doing. I took a great interest in vintage clothing and antiques and decided I wanted to be an archeologist, which I was positive was my calling. The world certainly had its plans for me and I really never had a dull moment, it was far from being an archeologist though, or was it??? Spending 12 years with a much older rock legend was much like discovering an ancient artifact, it differed when I fell in love with the artifact.

Going back to where I left off...

I had a little college, taking fashion illustration and after finding that I wasn’t ‘learning’ anything I didn’t already know and disagreed with, I had to go out into the world and sew my wild oats until I decided singing took care of everything I loved that had to do with performing. I sang with different musicians and put some singles out until I recorded my first full album in the late 90’s and toured Europe with it. As rough as that tour was I loved every minute of it and landed a five page article in the German Rolling Stone magazine and was featured on the cover with the Darkness, who just put out their first album and we were both in the top five pop albums of the year in Germany and Switzerland. I was still singing and doing a gig with a friend of mine doing standards and wondering what my next project would be, when I ended up meeting Ace Frehley, original lead guitar player of legendary rock group Kiss. For almost a full year I cherished Ace as a friend before I decided to go up and go on a proper date with him to see how things would play out, and it ended up being a roller coaster ride for twelve years I don’t think any woman would’ve been prepared for. With all the musicians I’d dated my whole life it didn’t come close to what I was to endure with Ace. Life growing up in Hollywood’s back lot certainly had surprises for me that were exciting and fun, but also a kind of darkness I never met and never knew. 

It took me as far away from the warm beach sands and happy life I’d known as I could get, and in this dark light it became out of my own control and into the hands of power...