About Me
dd0d599f3ffd8a2ac25c7524614857bfCari Cole is a singer, a songwriter, and a teacher and coach to rock stars, Grammy winners, emerging pop/rock artists and young developing artists. She lives in the heart of New York City. She helps music artists find their true voices, write songs from their heart and to bring their best music to the world.
Cole is also an award winning singer-songwriter who has captured a steadily growing audience since her 2002 debut, The Circle of Fire: an intimate and honest expression of life seen through the eyes of love. Musician, composer, poet, and singer, Cari Cole, has walked the shamans path to create a music and artistry that heals. Transformational Music is what listeners are calling "The Circle of Fire," the inspirational debut CD originally released in 2002 on Amber-Allen Publishing and released in 2008 on her own record label. Cari is releasing another 12 song record (still believes in the album!) this Summer 2009. Her music is on Itunes, CDBaby.com and most digital sites where you can purchase music and you can find out more info on her home site at www.caricole.com
Originally from Minneapolis, Cari Cole has been a musician and songwriter for most of her life, exploring a variety of musical endeavors through her early beginnings. She often found herself strumming her acoustic guitar or lugging her round-necked Dobro or mountain dulcimer to cafes and friends homes for a song or two before she was old enough to go to clubs. She sang the folk songs of Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez and Bob Dylan as she wrote her own and found her way to New York City at the age of 19 where she joined a rock and roll band.
She went on to teach voice in New York, founded her own voice studio, was a soloist in The Metro Mass Choir and performed everywhere from legendary CBGB's and the Bitter End to Carnegie Hall, Town Hall, and The Apollo Theatre where she shared the stage with legendary singers such as Cissy Houston, Beth Nielsen Chapman and Martha Wash to name a few. Although she is best known as a vocalist and songwriter, Cari is also a versatile musician: playing piano, acoustic and electric guitars, dulcimer, and flute. In the teaching arts, she is regarded as one of the most notable in voice studies, working with four-time Grammy Award winning recording artist Donald Fagen of Steely Dan, 2009 Grammy winner Chrisette Michelle, rock star Courtney Love and the legendary band of Journey among others.Cari Cole was a finalist for Best Female Artist in the IAMA's (International Acoustic Music Awards) and one of five finalists the IMA's (International Music Awards). She was on the Grammy Nominations Ballot for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for 2004, was a 2004, 2005, 2006 & 2007 ASCAPlus Award winner. Cole received honorable mention in the 2006 Peacedriven.com contest and in the Songprize.com Songwriting Contest and the DiscMakers Contest. Cole graces the pages of Billboard Books author Daylle Schwartz new book I Don't Need a Record Deal! Your Survival Guide for the Indie Music Revolution as an indie artist on the rise. She was selected as the AOL Musician of the Week/Tonos.com and debuted COF at Carnegie Hall. She has recorded and performed extensively across the U.S. and is currently in the studio writing and recording for the new record scheduled for release in 2006.Some of Cari's favorite venues in the US she has performed at include:
Carnegie Hall, NYC, Town Hall, NYC, The Apollo Theatre, NYC, Shine (now the Canal Room), NYC, Columbia University, NYC, The Bitter End, NYC, CBs Gallery, NYC, CBGBs, NYC, Le Bar Bat, NYC, The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, St. Paul MN, Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY, The Bluebird Cafe, Nashville, Asilomar Retreat Center, Pacific Grove, CA, Center at The Peaks, Telluride, CO, The Center for Happiness, Carlsbad, CA
The Spindrifter, Kona, Hawaii, Williams Pub, Minneapolis, MN
