polished rock and pop streamlined combo meets funk fusion with a jazzy mess.....

12 MP3 Songs
ROCK: Glam, POP: 80's Pop



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Imagination is common to us all â some let it pass away, others are inclined to live by it.


Carla R. approaches each day with a keen disregard to genres and convention, only content with breathing and writing.
Carla R. was born and raised in Greensboro, NC, a seemingly new hot spot for American Idol, but having yet to storm America with a real innovative creativity. Besides the late, great blues traveler Moses Rascoe her family was not all that musical. At six years old Carla was convinced after religiously watching the Friday night mess they called âHee Hawâ week after week that a guitar would be cool -she became enthralled. Carla says âThe first time I saw and heard âBatdanceâ (Prince) I was sold on the idea of being a performer â without the straw hat.â
Carla studied piano formally and added trombone and tuba in the academic realm. Carla spent four years studying music at UNC-Chapel Hill and four seasons with the Marching Tarheels and earned her degree in Music (theory and comp.) in 2003. Her current peers at Dymond Productions and at local venues comment that they find her passionate and candid personality expressed with electric guitar to be exciting and clearly unprecedented.
Carla quickly learned that in the real world as a female instrumentalist and especially guitarist, she would have to play twice as loud and fearlessly as the boys to be taken seriously â for her, not a problem.
Carlaâs influences include Prince, Miles Davis, Tina Turner, Queen, Thelonius Monk, James Brown, Motley Crue, Poison, Parliament and DeVante Swing. In response to the idea of blending together such an array of artists, she says, âbecause my parents had no preference or conviction for or against music whatsoever, it kept my curiosity about music pure and passionate â and haphazardly rebellious at times.â
Carla R.âs artistic originality and understated intensity evolved from a naïve undergraduate composer to an audacious guitarist/ singer to dynamic producer and performer â watch out.



âThat b**** is crazyâ¦.â

- Strap On! Contributing artist/producer, best friend