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My Take
Carla Kihlstedt is the sort of musician who refuses to sit in one lane, and I admire that enormously. Violinist, vocalist, composer, multi-instrumentalist, founding member of Tin Hat, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, and Rabbit Rabbit Radio, she lives in the most adventurous corners of music. Working today from a home studio on Cape Cod, she keeps building strange, beautiful projects rather than chasing trends. Born in 1971, she has spent decades proving that genre boundaries are optional. Artists who are both technically fearless and deeply personal are rare, and she is firmly one of them.
Overview
Carla Kihlstedt (born 1971) is an American composer, violinist, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist, originally from Lancaster, Pennsylvania and currently working from a home studio on Cape Cod. She is a founding member of Tin Hat Trio (1997, renamed Tin Hat), Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, The Book of Knots, Causing a Tiger, and Rabbit Rabbit Radio.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Carla Kihlstedt
- Name (Japanese)
- カーラ・キールシュテット
- Reading
- かーら・きーるしゅてっと
- Born
- November 23, 1971 (age 54)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Sagittarius / Boar
- Origin
- Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- singer / composer / songwriter / jazz musician / violinist
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.