Cherrill Rae

Cherrill Rae is a dynamic personality with a bigger-than-life stage persona. She began her professional singing career at the age of 18. She was signed by A&M records in 1980 and  had a hit single with a remake of the old Doris Day song “Que Sera Sera”. It was arranged with a percussive Latin beat and killer vocals. It climbed to number one on the Canadian top 40 and stayed there for ten consecutive weeks. After that came a succession of hits from her second album, Dancing up a Storm.

“Dancing up a Storm” became a top 40 success in the United States as well as Canada and Europe. The number-one single off that album “A Little Lovin’” went top ten in Cash Box, Billboard Magazine, Record World and Rolling Stone Magazine.

CBC then offered her a five year contract to star in her own weekly variety television show called “The Raes” which aired for four consecutive seasons. Cherrill has appeared on all the major American Talk Shows including Jay Leno, Johnny Carson, American Bandstand and Soul Train. She has traveled the world and performed in every major venue from The Copa Cabana to Las Vegas to London and Hong Kong and most everywhere in between. She continues to entertain aboard the World’s biggest cruise ships, theatre and night clubs.

​​Today, Cherrill’s stage show today is a combination of some real good music, a lot of funny stories delivered with precise comedic timing based on her own true life history. She says

“Sometimes life is funnier than fiction. It brings more honest laughs than scripted jokes.”

It’s all delivered with the soulful expression that has developed through life experience.  She treats her audiences like a group of friends in a living room, warm and intimate. Today her voice is a multi-textured instrument with prolonged whispers, powerful belts, low moaning, staccato bopping, and a myriad of other techniques.

She can belt out smoldering torch ballad and then switch gears to a feisty novelty number or a spicy Latin tune.   You will probably hear many different languages.

“Sometimes when my audience comes in the room they don’t really know who I am…but when they leave… Everyone is my best friend!”

Let her sing for you….she will touch your soul!