Karrin Allyson

jazz, vocal jazz, bossa nova, female vocalists, jazz vocal

As a singer, I feel very influenced by instrumentalists and by many classic instrumental songs, says Karrin Allyson Born in Great Bend, Kansas, a prairie town on the Arkansas River, Allyson came of age in Omaha, where her parents (her father was a Lutheran minister and her mother was a psychologist, schoolteacher and classical pianist) moved when she was six. She became a serious classical piano student, eventually making it her major in college, where she first performed professionally, paying tuition as a singer-pianist on introspective 70s pop (Joni Mitchell...