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highly acclaimed violinist Regina Carter, is like an untampered gem in the world of music. something that happened fortuity, because her career, and mainly the violin she took at 4, came from a mistake or a misunderstanding of her teacher while playing piano. A slipup, that has helped to generate one of the most coveted talent of her epoch. With 10 albums and many more collaborations with the like of Aretha Franklin, Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Billy Joel, Kenny Baron, Anthony Davis, Eddie Palmieri or Dolly Parton, she is a contemporary musician who has understood the need to brace many genres.
Flashmag November 2018 www.flashmag.net
A living proof that Jazz, she decided to choose as focal point, has inspired deeply modern music.
Regina Carter is our guest this month in the lines that follow, she tells us more about her career. An amazing feat, a story that must be told to inspire.
Hello Regina, Flashmag, and its readership, are very happy to have you today as the guest of the November issue. You will excuse my French during this interview.
Regina Carter: (Smiles) you don’t want to hear my French either
Of course, the first question you probably answered before, what brought you to music?
Thank you so much for having me. I really appreciate this opportunity. My mother was a kindergarten teacher, and she felt music was really important for kids’ development. she enrolled my elder brothers to music lesson one played piano and Trumpet and the other piano and clarinet. I was about 2 when one day I walked to a piano during their lesson, and the teacher was shocked to found out, I could hear music and play it immediately. So, She strongly recommended that I make music. Another reason why my mother thought music was important, it's because my grandmother graduated from Morris Brown college as pianist in 1915. Something that was very unusual at that time for a woman, and even more for an African American woman. My mother didn’t think about becoming musician, but she wanted just to expose us to music.
Growing as a musician, why did you feel the need to express your musical ability through Jazz? were you afraid to lose your freedom of creativity inside a symphonic orchestra ?
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credit Photo: Emmanuel Bouvet
REGINA CARTER
Jazz violinist
Interview