Bio
"Carolee Rainey is a multi-platinum music industry woman, songwriter, filmmaker, and recording artist whose work has earned recognition across the music and film industries. Check out her newly released album ‘the rooted album’ which encapsulates 15 of her original songs blending americana, folk, and jazz. It is available on all streaming platforms.
Named by Rolling Stone as one of a select group of emerging artists to watch in 2026, Rainey also received the 2025 Blue Valley Film Festival Award for Best Short Music Documentary for her original film Rooted. The documentary has since been licensed for distribution on Roku, Future Today’s Fawesome, Relay, and Stash TV, extending its reach to audiences across multiple streaming platforms.
Her music has reached audiences around the globe, with her breakthrough single “Anchor” receiving international airplay and commercial music placements across more than 20 countries, earning playlist support from radio stations and major music networks including Mood Media (580,000+ commercial locations worldwide), Rockbot (10,000+ businesses), Retail Radio/Spectrio (70,000+ locations), Music Choice, Stingray, Storeplay, and ClubCom. The song was featured across retail, hospitality, fitness, and broadcast platforms throughout North America, Europe, Australia, Africa, and Asia, demonstrating broad international appeal and lasting commercial reach.
Rather than existing as separate creative works, The Rooted Album grew directly from the vision behind Rainey’s award-winning documentary Rooted. Conceived as the musical companion to the film, the fifteen-song collection expands upon its central mission: giving a voice to those who have too often gone unheard. Inspired by the stories of individuals affected by abuse, loss, difficult life circumstances, isolation, and exclusion from the mainstream, the album seeks to offer hope, healing, dignity, and belonging through music. Together, the documentary and album invite listeners to discover that their stories matter, their voices deserve to be heard, and that even in life’s darkest moments, hope remains.
Serving as the project’s lead single, “Anchor” became the foundation for an international campaign that introduced audiences worldwide to The Rooted Album. Now, “Anchor” and several other songs from the collection have been given new life through remastering by a multi-Grammy-nominated production team, bringing renewed depth, clarity, and sonic excellence to the recordings. Together, The Rooted Album and Rooted represent Rainey’s most complete artistic statement to date—a unified body of work that bridges music and film while demonstrating how art can inspire, encourage, and restore hope in those who need it most."
