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“Truly, Cariña is a creative polymath! I know no one else like her.

Her passion is unmatched, and her artistic endeavors are inspiring. She is driven, reliable, and maintains a high level of personal integrity, which is exactly what makes her an exceptional artist. You know it's the real thing.

Accompanied only by a classical guitar, Cariña gave a stunning singing performance at my graduation from Georgetown Atelier. She sang so beautifully, she elevated the whole room of over 100, stunned into silence. She made this event particularly poignant for me.

I recommend anything Cariña does. She is a rare artist who is not only gifted, but courageously explores her gifts in unforeseen ways.”

— Holly White-Gehrt

My debut as a soloist was singing Bethlehem Star as a 5-year-old angel, yes an actual angel draped in an impossibly large white bedsheet with tinsel for a halo. I once heard a recording of my sweet little child's voice on a cassette tape that an Auntie in my neighborhood had saved from that performance. The recording is now long lost in the ever-moving mountains of ephemera that one rotates through in life. 

The thing that has always remained is the music and the fact that I have been doing it maybe longer than I have been talking. 

I am operatically trained and have been studying singing since age 10 under the tutelage of Christine Dercksen, Elsabe Raats, Ruth Morrison, and Benjamin Botha in South Africa. 

I have sung at over 100 events with classical repertoire being my main focus with occasional musical theatre and jazz numbers interspersed. 

I prefer singing with live accompaniment whether it is piano or guitar but will sing with backing tracks when the event requires it. 

I am proficient in English, American, Italian, German, French, Portuguese, Dutch, and Afrikaans language pronunciations.

Solo performances include events at The Johannesburg Art Gallery, Wing Luke Museum in Seattle, WA, Georgetown Atelier Fine Arts Graduation 

Cariña is available to sing at your special event whether it be a wedding, birth celebration, graduation, naturalization ceremony, or your baseball game opening ceremony. 

Some of my most requested songs are Ave Maria, Panis Angelicus, Pie Jesu, The Prayer, Star-Spangled Banner, America the Beautiful, Nkosi Sikilele i’Africa, Nella Fantasia, and Brahms Lullaby.


I’m available for commissions.

 

Want to hear some of my past works? Check me out on SoundCloud or YouTube.