Carmela D
Instruments: Piano, Voice, Synthesizer
Styles: Jazz, Pop, Blues, R&b, Hip Hop, Electronic

I am a passionate musician. In fact, I come from a family full of talented musicians and educators. The most influential on me is my father. He  is the head of the Instrumental department at Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington DC. He pretty much sparked the idea of education in music for me. I have a degree in Jazz Studies from Howard University. Howard created the same vocal jazz program that was highlighted on NBC's competition the Sing-off. During my undergraduate time I was apart of those vocal ensembles and worked closely with professors and students to write, arrange and perform full length vocal compositions. Soon after graduation, I was a full-time musician giving freelance voice lessons, and also teaching jazz voice while an artist in residency at Duke Ellington. During my time at Duke, I continued to perform and record around Washington, DC. This is where I began to be recognized for my talent, and was approached by an independent label who would soon thereafter move me to Atlanta, Ga to pursue my goal of being a full-time artist. It was this time that I really learned what it takes to be apart of the music industry truly as talent. I relearned my vocal technique through Jan Smith studios. They taught what singers are really trying to learn. How to sing current music in a healthy, but stylistic way. Often times in collegiate environments the future is overlooked because the curriculum is still in the past.