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American pop star Rachel Platten, who scored an international hit with the anthemic “Fight Song”, was born May 20, 1981 in New York, New York. While she played piano and guitar growing up, she did not seriously consider a career in music until college when she sang in a friend’s band at a major music competition in Trinidad and Tobago. After moving back to New York she performed regularly and began making connections which led to 2011’s Be Here, which contained her first charting single, “1,000 Ships”. The buzz from that record got her signed to Columbia which issued Wildfire in ...