Rainey Qualley

Rainey Qualley is a singer, songwriter, and actress who records pop music as <a href="spotify:artist:4XxCuxkBeoJUdzaVRGJjrJ">Rainsford</a>. Born in New York City and raised in Missoula, Montana and Asheville, North Carolina, Qualley is the daughter of former model Paul Qualley and model/actress Andie MacDowell, and sister of actress Margaret Qualley (Palo Alto, The Nice Guys). Splitting her time as a young adult between Los Angeles and Nashville for her two careers, she landed her first major film role in the 2012 comedy-drama Mighty Fine, where she played the daughter of characters portrayed by Chazz Palminteri and her real-life mother. She later appeared in the 2014 short film Pink & Baby Blue, followed by a lead in the 2014 contemporary western Falcon Song. In 2015, she made an appearance playing a model in the final season of the award-winning U.S. cable TV drama Mad Men.

Her seven-track music debut, Turn Down the Lights, was a country effort produced by Russ Zavitson (<a href="spotify:artist:60rpJ9SgigSd16DOAG7GSa">Billy Ray Cyrus</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:17VaTNp7RfgYr5JAJKTqAv">the Wilkinsons</a>) and songwriter John Ramey (<a href="spotify:artist:0xxJO75NeIAF5jYruLYIDT">Tracy Byrd</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:4Ti0EKl2PVEms2NRMVGqNe">Don Williams</a>) and recorded in Nashville. Demonstrating varied country-pop, it was released by <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Cingle+Records%22">Cingle Records</a> in June of 2015. A year later, after leaving Nashville, the singer reemerged as <a href="spotify:artist:4XxCuxkBeoJUdzaVRGJjrJ">Rainsford</a> with "S.I.D. (Sunshine in December)," a sultry electropop tune with a vocal delivery in the realm of R&B-influenced pop. The like-minded "Too Close" followed in the fall of 2016. In the meantime, she continued to model and act under her full name, taking roles such as a lead in the short film No Other Like You (2016) as she prepared her <a href="spotify:artist:4XxCuxkBeoJUdzaVRGJjrJ">Rainsford</a> debut EP. ~ Marcy Donelson, Rovi