Rachel Traets

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| birth_name = Rachel Traets

| alias = Rachel

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1998|08|16|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Wouw, Netherlands

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| genre = Pop rock, dance-pop, teen pop

| occupation = Singer

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| years_active = 2011-

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Rachel Traets (born 16 August 1998) is a singer from the Netherlands. Traets lives in Wouw, a small village in the south-west of the Netherlands.{{cite web|author=Any|title=The Netherlands in the JESC 2011|url=http://esckaz.com/jesc/2011/net.htm|publisher=Esckaz.com}}{{Better source needed|reason=ESCKaz is banned by WikiProject Eurovision.|date=April 2022}}

In October 2011 she won the Dutch music competition Junior Songfestival 2011 with the song "{{lang|nl|Ik Ben Een Teenager|italic=unset}}" ({{langx|en|"I Am A Teenager"}}).{{cite web|title=Junior: Rachel pakt de zege!|url=http://www.songfestivalweblog.nl/2011/10/junior-rachel-pakt-de-zege/|publisher=Songfestivalweblog.nl|access-date=2011-10-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425071308/http://www.songfestivalweblog.nl/2011/10/junior-rachel-pakt-de-zege/|archive-date=2012-04-25|url-status=dead}} She was selected to represent her country in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2011 held on 3 December 2011 in Yerevan, Armenia.{{cite web|last=Toronidis|first=Theofilos|title=Breaking News: Rachel to represent the Netherlands in Yerevan!|url=http://escdaily.com/articles/23544|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120707234842/http://escdaily.com/articles/23544|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 July 2012|work=ESCDaily|accessdate=1 October 2011}}{{cite web|title=Netherlands decided 2011: Rachel wins!|url=http://www.oikotimes.com/eurovision/2011/10/01/netherlands-decided-2011-rachel-wins/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120914153127/http://www.oikotimes.com/eurovision/2011/10/01/netherlands-decided-2011-rachel-wins/|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-09-14|publisher=Oikotimes.com}} A few weeks later the title "{{lang|nl|Ik Ben Een Teenager|italic=unset}}" was shrunk to "Teenager", which would be the official title for the Dutch entry.{{cite web|title=The Netherlands 2011: Rachel, "Teenager"|url=http://www.junioreurovision.tv/page/participant-profile?song=26553|publisher=European Broadcasting Union|work=Junioreurovision.tv|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111210185120/http://www.junioreurovision.tv/page/participant-profile?song=26553|archive-date=10 December 2011|url-status=dead}} She came in second in the actual contest, five points behind the winner: Candy from Georgia. She received 12 points from Latvia and Belgium.

Rachel is preceded by Anna and Senna who represented the Netherlands in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010 and succeeded by Femke who represented the Netherlands in 2012.

Currently,{{When|date=June 2021}} she is in a girlband, Hello August.