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Synia Carroll

Synia Carroll ( sin-‘nī-ah ) Music has loomed large in Synia’s life since her childhood in Philadelphia. As young as four years old she was writing her own songs and by the age of 12 she was singing for a variety of audiences, while accompanying herself on folk guitar. Synia earned a full music scholarship to Chestnut Hill, nearby woman’s college, however she opted instead to attend Wesleyan University in Connecticut. where her music experienced expanded to include classical, latin and gospel music as well as work at local recording studios. Shortly after college, Synia moved to New York where her smooth, clear vocals were soon recognized, leading to session work with a number of performing and recording artists including Curtis Hairston, Cookie Watkins, and jazz harmonica player Will Galison It was vibraphonist Jay Hoggard who first encouraged Synia to step forward to pursue a career as a lead vocalist. Synia’s developed an affinity for “Soca Music” also known as the soul of calypso, and worked with groups lead by Bernard Liburd, Designer, and Lord Nelson

Female Vocals 2017 I – Cynthia Hilts, Judith Nijland, Andrea Claburn, Sandy Cressman, Lisa Biales

by C. Michael Bailey
January 30, 2017

Take a day off and the recordings pile up and bury you. Female jazz vocals continue to dominate recordings with no indication on letting up. Most these recordings are very good and deserve recognition. So here is my picayune effort to address a few of them. Cynthia Hilts Lyric Fury

Here’s to You...

By Synia Carroll

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2016
Track listing: Be My Husband; My Favorite Things; My Baby Just Cares for Me; My Foolish Heart; This Can’t be Love; Afro Blue; the Man that got Away; Devil May Care; Black Coffee; Just in time; Tresteza; Nobody Else But Me; Here’s to Life.

Synia Carroll: Here’s to You...

by C. Michael Bailey
November 9, 2016

Et in terra. Honesty in music is expressed in its simplicity. The first right thing that vocalist Synia Carroll does on her debut recording, Here's to You... is employ a jazz piano trio, the subatomic format for jazz: piano, bass, and drums. The second thing that Carroll does is fix her art in the earth, something ...

Be My Husband

October 25, 2016

Album: Here's To You...
By Synia Carroll
Label: Self Produced
Released: 0
Duration: 03:51

Here's To You...

By Synia Carroll

Label: Self Produced
Released: 0