Singer-songwriter Rachella Wred is a West Coast transplant currently living in Montreal, Canada. Folk music and songwriting have given her the space to explore storytelling through music.

Rachel Warkentin, known musically as Rachella Wred, began singing in her crib before she could even talk. She started playing music at an early age before discovering her love of songwriting. In 2014, she appeared in the 200th episode of TV show Supernatural, being featured in the episode’s musical cover of the Kansas song "Carry On Wayward Son”. 

Rachel made the transition out east, moving to Canada’s capital city where she studied voice and performance, graduating with a Bachelor of Music Honours degree. She has been working on writing and recording original music for the last several years and released her first project in the fall of 2020. Returning to her childhood home in British Columbia during the COVID-19 lockdowns, Rachel found herself drawn to the sounds of her surroundings and the stories of the natural world. Picking up the acoustic guitar as a hobby during this time gave her the space to explore these stories while refining her artistic voice through folk music and songwriting. She released the rich and contemplative single “Warmer Light” in the fall of 2022 and “Ever Since You’ve Been Gone” in February of 2024, which she both co-arranged and co-produced.

Rachella Wred’s personal lyrics and soaring melodies captivate audiences, capturing the delicacy and transience of human emotion with specificity and ease. Over the past couple of years she has been steadily performing in clubs, bars, and concert venues throughout Eastern Canada, in cities including Ottawa and Montreal. She’s been invited back to play multiple shows with Montreal-based event producer and promoter KickDrum.

Written around intimate endings and beginnings, Rachella Wred’s debut album Leave The Light On is set to be released in April 2025. This collection of songs, split between the ambience of the Montreal bustle and the pull of the Pacific Ocean, explores honest heartbreak, loneliness, growing pains, and the challenges of navigating life alone in a fast-moving world.