Named "Queen of House Music" by Billboard Magazine, "Screamin'" Rachael was the first House artist to be signed by a major label, launched the Hip House sound together with Afrika Bambaataa and is today president of the legendary TRAX record label.

This August sees the release of a retrospective LP: QUEEN OF HOUSE curated by Jorge Cruz, Trax Records' Creative Director, with rare and unreleased tracks from Screamin' Rachael's early Space Place Punk days to Hip House - introducing "Fun With Bad Boys" with Afrika Bambaataa. 

It tells the story of Rachael's life and more importantly documents a major piece of dance history - in Rachael's own funky, seductive, and sharp way.

The album shows the diversity of House and Dance music in its early beginnings. Working with several key players including Frankie Knuckles, Marshall Jefferson, Afrika Bambaataa and New York Club Kids, Screamin' Rachael also introduced some of the most influential DJs to House music. She is an integral part of TRAX label's day-to-day business and continues to operate as a protector of the TRAX & House music legacy.

Screamin' Rachael currently spends her time between Chicago & New Orleans. She is partners with Perfecto of the French Quarter's largest gallery, Exagere, where she performs regularly. Rachael also performs at such venues such as the Martin Lawrence Gallery and Rain (Amsterdam) for ADE. It was at ADE where a meeting between Rachael and Todd Terry led to the new single "U Used To Hold Me", a special mix of which appears as a bonus track on the album. 

Words from the curator: Jorge Cruz

"Back when I was writing for URB I basically co-curated with Screamin' Rachael some songs for Joe Smooth to make a mixtape that would run on the site. I went to her apartment, picked up the cd and of listened to it on the way home. There was a song on there I just could not stop playing ("Dance All Night") and from there came a small journey of not only discovering more about TRAX but about Rachael as well. As time went by I heard more and more of her music - I think really the song that did it for me was "I Need Love" which is the album's opener. From there I knew I had to put Rachael's album together. It came really from a place of not only wanting to show people what incredible music she has, but also wanting to really shout about how important people like her are.

QUEEN OF HOUSE clearly shows what greatness lived amongst the scene - Screamin' Rachael worked with a lot of the main people like Marshall Jefferson, Frankie Knuckles, Afrika Bambaataa and many others.  It also highlights how diverse Dance/House music was in its early beginnings. At the end of the album there are also her Punk songs, which are NOT separate from the beginning of the album. It all goes together. Many of those songs are very hard to find, actually many on the album are unreleased - and it even includes two live performances. Like Rachael says, Punk and House not only lived a block away from each other but was also mixed by people like Frankie Knuckles in the Warehouse. Later Rachael invented Hip House with the godfather of Hip Hop, DJ Afrika Bambaataa. She even taught Joan Jett how to rap!

From those beginnings it's kind of a question of how important she is to Dance music. She ended up being the protector of TRAX and House, and eventually became the president of the label. She gave herself up in a way to fight and protect this music - which explains why she isn't a household name. She is integral to the day-to-day business aspect of it and has fought, up to today, legal battles to protect this label from becoming bastardized, used and manipulated. It's also important how she introduced House to some of the most influential DJs who would later influence the world at large."