Regina Carter

**Regina Carter** (an haife ta a ranar 6 ga Agusta, 1966) 'yar wasan goge ce ta Amurka. Ita 'yar uwan mai wasan goge ce ta jazz James Carter .

## Rayuwa ta farko
An haifi Carter a Detroit kuma tana ɗaya daga cikin 'ya'ya uku a cikin danginta. 

Ta fara darussan piano tun tana 'yar shekara biyu bayan ta kunna waƙa ga malamin piano na ɗan'uwanta. Bayan da ta buga ƙaramin rubutu na ƙarshe da gangan a wani wasan kwaikwayo, malamar piano ta ba da shawarar ta ɗauki goge, wanda ke nuna cewa Hanyar Suzuki na iya zama mafi dacewa ga ƙirƙirarta. Mahaifiyar Carter ta ɗauke ta a Makarantar Kiɗa ta Detroit Community tun tana 'yar shekara huɗu kuma ta fara koyon goge.  Har yanzu tana karatun piano, da kuma tap da ballet. 

Tun tana ƙarama, ta yi wasa a ƙungiyar matasa ta Detroit Symphony Orchestra . A lokacin da take makaranta, ta sami damar ɗaukar darussan masters daga Itzhak Perlman da Yehudi Menuhin . 

Carter ta halarci Makarantar Sakandare ta Cass Technical tare da wata ƙawarta ta kud da kud, mawaƙiyar jazz Carla Cook, wacce ta gabatar da ita ga Ella Fitzgerald . A makarantar sakandare, Carter ta yi wasa tare da Detroit Civic Orchestra kuma ta yi wasa a cikin ƙungiyar pop-funk mai suna Brainstorm. Baya ga ɗaukar darussan goge, ta kuma ɗauki darussan viola, oboe, da mawaƙa. 

Carter tana karatun goge na gargajiya a Kwalejin Kiɗa ta New England da ke Boston lokacin da ta yanke shawarar komawa jazz. Ta koma Jami'ar Oakland da ke Rochester, Michigan, inda ta kasance ƙwararren jazz a ƙarƙashin jagorancin Marvin "Doc" Holladay. Ta kuma yi karatu da yin wasa tare da mai busa ƙaho Marcus Belgrave . Ta hanyar Belgrave, Carter ta sami damar haɗuwa da mawaƙa masu aiki a fagen jazz na Detroit, ciki har da Lyman Woodard . Ta kammala karatunta a shekarar 1985. Bayan kammala karatunta, ta koyar da waƙoƙi a makarantun gwamnati na Detroit. Tana buƙatar canjin yanayi, ta ƙaura zuwa Turai ta zauna a Jamus na tsawon shekaru biyu. Yayin da take haɗa kai, ta yi aiki a matsayin mai kula da gidan wani dangin Jamus kuma ta koyar da goge a sansanin sojojin Amurka. 

## Sana'a

Carter ya dawo Amurka kuma ya fara fitowa a matsayin mai yin goge ga 'yan mata quintet masu suna Straight Ahead a shekarar 1987,  tare da Cynthia Dewberry, Gayelynn McKinney, Eileen Orr, da Marion Hayden. A farkon zuwa tsakiyar shekarun 1990, an ruwaito Branford Marsalis yana cewa, "Da gaske suna yin wasa." Sun fitar da kundin wakoki uku a kamfanin Atlantic Jazz, ciki har da na farko mai suna *Body and Soul*, da *Look Straight Ahead* . Carter ya yi wasa shi kaɗai kafin a fitar da kundin wakokinsu na uku, *Dance of the Forest Rain* . A shekarar 1991 ta bar ƙungiyar ta koma birnin New York. 

A lokacin da take New York, ba a san ta ba, kuma ta yi aiki tare da mawaka kamar Aretha Franklin, Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Billy Joel, da Dolly Parton . Ta kuma yi wasa da Max Roach da Oliver Lake, sannan kuma ta kasance a cikin String Trio na New York . Carter ta yi aiki a kan kundin waƙoƙin *Intermobility* (1993), *Octagon* (1994), da *Blues ... ?* (1996) tare da ƙungiyar. 

A lokacin da take tare da 'yan ukun, ta fitar da faifan CD ɗinta na farko mai suna *Regina Carter* (1995). An fitar da *Something for Grace* ga mahaifiyarta a shekarar 1997. Ta yi rangadin yawon shakatawa tare da Wynton Marsalis don shirin *Blood on the Fields* na shekarar 1997. Daga nan ta canza kamfanonin rikodi daga Atlantic Records zuwa Verve Music Group, wanda ya ba ta damar samun 'yancin fasaha, kuma ta fitar da *Rhythms of the Heart* (1999).  An fitar da kundin wakokin *Motor City Moments*, wanda ke girmama garinsu, a shekarar 2000. 

A watan Disamba na 2001, ta yi wasan kide-kide a Genoa ta amfani da *Il Cannone Guarnerius*, wani goge da aka yi a shekarar 1743 kuma Niccolò Paganini ne ya taɓa mallakarsa kuma ya fi so.  An ba Genoa kyautar goge bayan mutuwar Paganini a 1840. An ba da sunan kayan kida ne saboda ana iya samun sautin "fashewa". An gayyaci Carter ya yi wasa bayan abubuwan da suka faru na harin 11 ga Satumba a matsayin alamar haɗin kai. Ita ce mawaƙin jazz na farko kuma Ba’amurke ɗan Afirka na farko da ya buga kayan kida.  Daga baya ta yi rikodin *Paganini: After a Dream* for Verve Records .  Kundin ya ƙunshi ayyukan gargajiya na Maurice Ravel da Claude Debussy, da *Cinema Paradiso* na Ennio Morricone . 

An tsara kundin waƙoƙin *I'll Be See You: A Sentimental Journey*, CD na shida na Carter, a matsayin kundin waƙoƙin girmamawa ga mahaifiyarta da ta rasu, wanda ya haɗa da wasu daga cikin waƙoƙin da ta fi so da kuma na Amurka daga shekarun 1920 zuwa 1940. Wasu waƙoƙin sun haɗa da "Blue Rose" ( Duke Ellington ), " Sentimental Journey " ( Les Brown ), " A-Tisket, A-Tasket " ( Ella Fitzgerald ), da kuma " I'll Be See You ". 

A matsayinta na mai koyarwa, mai ba da shawara, kuma mai goyon bayan hanyar Suzuki, Carter ta ba da bita da kuma darussa na biyu a cibiyoyi da dama. Ta kasance mai zane-zane a Residence a makarantar sakandarenta, Jami'ar Oakland daga 2007–2018. Ta kuma koyar a sansanin bazara na jazz a Stanford Jazz Workshop .   A shekarar 2018, an nada ta a matsayin Daraktan Fasaha na Sansanin Jazz na Mata Masu Yin Wasan Kwaikwayo na New Jersey.

A shekarun 2000, Carter ta yi waka a matsayin wacce ta fi kowacce kyau. A shekarar 2005, ta yi waka a kundin wakokin Eddie Palmieri mai suna Listen Here!, wanda ya lashe kyautar Grammy don mafi kyawun kundin wakokin Latin Jazz. A watan Mayu na 2006, ta yi yawon shakatawa tare da Darryl Harper (clarinet), Xavier Davis (piano), Alvester Garnett (ganguna) (har yanzu tana tare da ita a shekarar 2011), da kuma Matt Parish ( Upright bass ).

An ba Carter kyautar Shirin Ɗaliban MacArthur, wanda aka fi sani da "kyauta mai kyau", a watan Satumba na 2006. Kyautar ta haɗa da tallafin $500,000 a cikin shekaru biyar, kuma kwamitin ya bayyana haka game da Carter:Regina Carter ƙwararriya ce a fannin goge jazz mai ban sha'awa. Duk da cewa aikinta ya dogara ne akan tasirin kiɗa iri-iri - ciki har da Motown, Afro-Cuban, Swing, Bebop, Folk, da World - ta ƙirƙiri murya da salo mai kyau. ... Waƙoƙin Carter sun nuna yuwuwar goge jazz da aka saba watsi da shi saboda ƙarfinsa na waƙa, waƙar, da kuma bugunsa. Horar da ta fara a matsayin mawaƙin gargajiya yana bayyana a cikin sassauci, alheri, da daidaiton aikinta. Waƙoƙin Carter suna riƙe da alaƙa mai ƙarfi da wanda ta saba yayin da suke shiga sabbin hanyoyi, waɗanda ba a zata ba. ... Ta hanyar fasaha tare da kayan kida wanda aka ayyana galibi ta hanyar al'adar gargajiya, Carter tana kan gaba wajen samar da sabbin damarmaki ga goge da jazz. A shekarar 2018, Carter ya sami kyautar Doris Duke.

Carter ta auri Alvester Garnett a Detroit, Michigan, a ranar 5 ga Satumba, 2004. Garnett ita ce mai buga ganga a ƙungiyar mawakanta.  Ta kasance mazaunin Maywood, New Jersey . 

## Kundin Waƙoƙi
**A matsayin shugaba ko shugaba mai haɗin gwiwa**

* *Regina Carter* ( Atlantic ) 1995
* 1997 *Wani abu don Alheri* (Atlantic)
* *Sautin Zuciya na* 1999 ( Verve )
* *Motocin Motoci* na 2000 (Verve)
* 2001 *Freefall* (Verve), tare da Kenny Barron
* 2003 *Paganini: Bayan Mafarki* (Verve)
* 2006 *Zan Gane Ka: Tafiya Mai Sauƙi* (Verve)
* *Zaren Juyawa na* 2010 ( E1 Entertainment )
* 2014 *Southern Comfort* ( Babban aikin fasaha )
* 2017 *Ella: Ka ƙarfafa kyawawan halaye* ( Masterworks )

**Tare da String Trio na New York**

* *[[Intermobility]]* ( Arabesque, 1992)
* *Octagon* ( Black Saint, 1992)
* *Blues...?* (Black Saint, 1993)
* *Aiki a Waje* (AA, 1994)

**Tare da Kenny Barron**

* *Waƙar Ruhu* (Verve, 1999)

**Tare da Anthony Davis**

* *Ellington / Monk / Mingus / Davis* ( Kiɗa &amp;amp; Fasaha, 1997)

**Tare da Mark Helias**

* *Loopin' the Cool* ( Enja, 1995)

**Tare da Elliott Sharp**

* *Xenocodex* ( Tzadik, 1996)

**Tare da Cassandra Wilson**

* *Tafiya ta Miles* ( Blue Note, 1999) akan hanyoyi biyu

**Tare da Steve Turre**

* *Furen Lotus* (Verve, 1999)

**Tare da James Carter**

* *Chasin' the Gypsy* (Atlantic, 2000)
* *Caribbean Rhapsody* (EmArcy, 2011)

**Tare da Sir Simon Rattle, Luther Henderson, Kungiyar Makada ta Symphony ta Birnin Birmingham, Lena Horne**

* *Ellington na Gargajiya* ( EMI Classics, 2000)

**Tare da Carmen Lundy**

* *Wani Abu da Za a Yi Imani da Shi* ( Justin Time, 2003) akan waƙoƙi uku

**Tare da Joe Jackson**

* *Duke* ( Razor &amp;amp; Tie, 2012) a kan waƙoƙi uku
* *Fast Forward* ( Caroline, 2015) akan waƙoƙi huɗu

**Tare da Eddie Palmieri**

* *Saurara Nan!* ( Concord Records, 2005)

**Tare da Danilo Perez**

* *Motherland* ( Verve Records, 2000)

**Tare da Wynton Marsalis**

* *Blood on the Fields* ( Columbia Records, 1997)

**Tare da Quartet ɗin Soldier String**

* *A cikin Launi Huɗu* (2015)
* *Duba don Allolin da suka lalace* (2004)
* *Jazz Standards on Mars* (1997), tare da Robert Dick, Richard Bona

**Tare da Dave Soldier**

* *Waƙar Chamber* (2006) a waƙa ɗaya

## Manazarta