Carleen Music

About

Based in Los Angeles, Carleen is an American singer-songwriter, composer, pianist, and guitarist. She's played the local acoustic circuit including the lounge at the Viper Room! Her proudest moments have been receiving Herb Alpert Scholarships and attending CalArts. These are extremely big for Carleen because she was raised in a sheltered environment that discouraged youth from going to college. Most critics compare her sound to Joni Mitchell. However, artists like Sara Bareilles & Jason Mraz are her biggest songwriting inspirations.
Carleen was born into a secretive polygamist mormon cult in small town, Utah. Her dad was a drama teacher, so she had more exposure to performing arts than other kids around, but it was still niche-y and limited. Her mom was a music teacher and Carleen had access to church hymns and folk. It was considered a sin to turn on the radio, but she did it in rebellion. When she spent 5 years on a farm, the rebel kids were listening to country of course. She wasn't satisfied, so she browsed other channels. She heard pop-punk-rocker, Avril Lavigne, and how she wrote her own songs. Carleen decided she could, too. Persisting for 15+ years, she's written nursery rhymes, neoclassical, soundscapes, new-age, acapella, choral, cinema, soundtrack, musical theater, blues, jazz, etc
. Carleen is currently in the studio working on some exciting, new fusion projects! When she’s not in the studio, she is teaching music. For more information about lessons, etc. please email [email protected]

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