Carla Kihlstedt

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.

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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)

Origin

Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States

Occupation

singer / composer / songwriter / jazz musician / violinist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Boar

• Official sitehttps://carlakihlstedt.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/CarlaKihlstedt
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carla%20Kihlstedt
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%83%86%E3%83%83%E3%83%88
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q437819

Tags

• Pennsylvania
• singer
• composer
• songwriter

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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