Rachael Leahcar – The Colours of my Life

In an industry filled with pretence and fabricated personalities it is refreshing to be in the audience enjoying a performer who is authentic, sincere and incredibly talented.

If the name Rachael Leahcar is familiar it is because her image and story was emblazoned across our television screens in 2012, as part of the singing sensation ‘The Voice’, but as you soon come to realise, there is a lot more to this woman.

The Colours of my Life is a stage show about her life and it is as inspiring and humbling as you would expect. The bare stage is lit with projections and video marking important moments in her journey, aiding in the story-telling. Classic melodies such as Edith Piaf’s ‘La Vie En Rose’ and ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’, from Leahcar’s favourite movie The Wizard of Oz, are highlights, but the tear-jerker tune symbolising all that she stands for is Charlie Chaplin’s ‘Smile’.  Fantastic vocal impersonations were hilarious and evidence of her vocal range.

Opening her life up and sharing her proudest moments and struggles was brave, and in doing so she will no doubt make many more fans. Leahcar possesses a depth beyond her years and demonstrated with humour why she will be around for many years to come.

Kerry Cooper

Photos by Pomfus.