Carrie Van Allen was born in Boston in 1990. She began to pursue music on her own in 2000 by enrolling in piano lessons. After a few years, she found the routine tiresome and quit: she despised being told what to play. In 2005, she was inspired by Alicia Keys to resume her piano "lessons" and wound up learning more in those few years as a pre-teen than she learned on her own, at an alarming rate. In 2007, she picked up a guitar on her 17th birthday and plainly declared, "I am going to learn this." In 2014, she realized she was an Alto and began using breathing/…
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