CAROLYN FITZHUGH

Chicago native Carolyn Fitzhugh affectionately named “Songbird” by her adoring fans is a timeless song stylist who possesses the grace, elegance and improvisational skills of the legends of yesteryear while capturing the attention and affection of all ages. Carolyn’s childhood home was filled with the music of a diverse assortment of music greats from Miles Davis, Oscar Peterson, John Coltrane and Ella Fitzgerald to Morgana King and Sarah Vaughn to Minnie Ripperton, Ray Charles and Earth, Wind & Fire! Carolyn began taking classical piano lessons at age five and soon after she started making up melodies on the piano, as she adds “my early days of composition.” It was at this age that she felt the emotion to sing and play. Soon after the three-octave voice was born. Carolyn's fire to sing, play the piano and entertain was lit, never to be extinguished! As Carolyn further laments, “in my teens, I fell read more...