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Karla Harris

Jazz vocalist Karla Harris has made a career within the art form she loves for more than four decades, engaging audiences from Portland to Provence. Her performance credits include events such as the Sarasota Jazz Festival, Portland Jazz Festival, Oregon Coast Jazz Party, Greenville Jazz Festival, Nantucket Arts Festival, Siletz Bay Music Festival, Atlanta Jazz Party, Atlanta Jazz Festival, and a TED Talk. She has performed for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as part of the Arts Across America live performance series, and in 2022 was awarded a distinguished Jazz Road grant through the South Arts foundation.  In addition to performing, writing and recording, Karla is an artist-in-residence with the Jazz Studies department at Kennesaw State University, teaching  Applied Vocal Jazz to aspiring singers passionate about this uniquely American art form. She is a recipient of Atlanta Magazine's 2024 Women Making a Mark award in recognition of her "Jazz Discovery" educational and community outreach programs, and in 2025 was one of 29 individuals across North America named a "Jazz Hero" by the Jazz Journalists Association. Karla also is honored to be the subject of a short-form documentary by filmmaker Elisee Junior St. Preux, produced by South Fulton Arts in Atlanta.