Rachel Stewart is a Scottish

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 singer and folk dancer born 24 December 1971. She is one of the founding members of electro-pop group Beauty School

Beauty School (band)

Beauty School is the name of a band consisting of ex-EMF frontman James Atkin, ex-Fluke singer, Rachel Stewart and Elastica drummer Justin Welch.- External links :*...

 and first came to attention in 1997 when she toured with electronic music

Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...

 group Fluke

Fluke (band)

Fluke are an English electronic music group formed in the late 1980s by Mike Bryant, Jon Fugler and Mike Tournier with Julian Nugent as the band's manager...

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History

Around 1997, with the release of Risotto

Risotto (album)

Risotto is the sixth album by British electronica group Fluke, first released in September 1997. The album is named Risotto after the dish....

, Fluke adopted a character from the Wipeout

Wipeout (video game)

Wipeout is the first in a series of futuristic racing video games developed and published by Psygnosis. It was originally released in 1995 for Sony PlayStation and PCs running MS-DOS, and in 1996 for Sega Saturn...

computer game, Arial Tetsuo, as their official mascot. Also around this time, the group was looking for a female vocalist to perform with them in their live sets, and Stewart fit both these roles. She is described as a "female version of Keith Flint

Keith Flint

Keith Charles Flint is a dancer and vocalist of the British Electronica band The Prodigy.- Early life :Flint was born in Redbridge, London, England, to Clive & Yvonne Flint and initially raised in East London; in the mid-1970s his parents moved out to Springfield, Essex, but due to his parents'...

 from The Prodigy

The Prodigy

The Prodigy are an English electronic dance music group formed by Liam Howlett in 1990 in Braintree, Essex. Along with Fatboy Slim, The Chemical Brothers, and other acts, The Prodigy have been credited as pioneers of the big beat genre, which achieved mainstream popularity in the 1990s and 2000s...

". With Fluke's performances in decline, she joined forces with EMF

EMF (band)

EMF were an indie dance band from the United Kingdom. The band, from the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, came to prominence at the beginning of the 1990s. During its initial eight year run , EMF had released three studio albums and had gone on hiatus and reformed twice...

 frontman James Atkin to form Beauty School

Beauty School (band)

Beauty School is the name of a band consisting of ex-EMF frontman James Atkin, ex-Fluke singer, Rachel Stewart and Elastica drummer Justin Welch.- External links :*...

 in 2004. In 2005, Beauty School was joined by Elastica

Elastica

Elastica were an English alternative rock band that played punk rock-influenced music. They were best known for their 1995 album Elastica, which produced singles that charted in the US and the UK.-History:...

 drummer Justin Welch

Justin Welch

Justin Steven Welch is an English musician, best known as the drummer in the Britpop band, Elastica....

making the band into a three piece.