Karen marie garrett biography templates

As almost all of us know, life has a way of intruding on our plans, dreams and goals, and the resultant adventures can have good, and not so good, consequences. Pianist Karen Marie Garrett knows the yin and yang of this all too well. After the release of her critically acclaimed first two albums, 2005's Allure of Sanctuary and 2007's It's About the Rose (both produced by Grammy winner and Windham Hill label founder Will Ackerman), the future seemed "rosy" indeed for the promising artist. Then….well, we're getting ahead of ourselves. More than a few years ago, in Vancouver, Washington (just across the Columbia River from Portland, Oregon), there lived a young girl…

Karen Marie Garrett first started taking piano lessons at the age of 5 in Vancouver after her mother purchased the instrument for the family of four (Karen has a brother). Even at an early age, Karen loved the sound of the instrument (although her toes couldn't yet reach the pedals). While still relatively youn