Rachel Borovik

Rachel B was born Rachel Leia Borovik in Traverse City. Her ethnic background is Russian and Italian. Gifted with talent and a love of music from an early age, she studied composition and performed on stage ever since the age of 12, studied classical music from her senior year of high school at the Interlochen Arts Academy and later she toured with the Academy’s alumni jazz band. From 2008 to 2011 she attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston. She played at venues across the country such as Chicago Symphony Hall, Berklee Performance Center and Traverse City Wine Festival.

Her debut EP I’m the Boss came out in 2014, self-released and promoted through a national tour. In 2015 she independently released her second EP, “Break It Down.”

The complete debut album “I’m The Boss” on has been released on March 1, 2016.

While performing in Los Angeles, Rachel B's songs also featured in ABC's General Hospital soap opera, as well as in film and shows as Ain't Misbehaving or SWAN Day CT and Tyler Perry's Tyler Perry's Good Deeds (2012) and Tyler Perry's The Single Moms Club (2014).

After tours and performances throughout Los Angeles and Southern California from 2011, her career as an independent artist took off after relocating to Pittsburgh in August 2014. There she gathered together the instrumental band including the production partner/drummer Billy Castle, native of Virginia and fellow alumnus of the Berklee College of Music, keyboard player Patrick Whitehead, bassist Clayton Weakley, guitarist Mike Roth and trombonist Ata Secilmis, to work on their debut album, "I’m the Boss".

While at Berklee, Rachel B formed a 5-piece pop/soul band that consisted of Berklee'’s finest players. The group performed regularly throughout the Northeast and Midwest and recorded "Untangled" their first album together of all original music, which they released in 2010. They recorded live sessions for NPR and IPR once a week throughout their 2009 tour with guest artists such as jazz pianist Bob James.