Rachel Assil (born September 20), is an American recording artist, songwriter, pianist and producer from Manhattan, NY. In January 2014, super-producers Polow Da Don and Timbaland signed Rachel to a record deal with Zone 4 and Mosley Music Group.At the fifth annual ASCAP Expo in 2010, Linda Perry chose Rachel to perform on stage as part of her featured Master Session. ASCAP's Erik Philbrook covered the performance, describing it as "something so beautiful and compelling, something that generated so much love, that my body heated up." Video of the performance was posted by ASCAP on their official YouTube page. She received a standing ovation, along with Perry's immediate feedback stating: "That was amazing, if anybody would tell you to change that they would be silly. You sold that completely because you feel it, and sometimes it's the emotion it's not the perfection, it's the emotion that gets delivered and that was perfect emotion so thank you for that. " 　　In 2011, ASCAP featured an article interviewing Rachel about her independent debut 'The Opus Unplugged. 　　In November 2013, accompanied by co-writer Jesse Macht, Rachel performed for ASCAP President Paul Williams, Songwriter and ASCAP Board Member Marilyn Bergman and US Register of Copyrights Maria Pallante. Williams, Bergman and Pallante had been in the office to discuss the state of music copyright, and pivotal changes to the US Copyright Act in the coming months and years.