Krscrl8@cs.com
Krissy Carlson is a singer/songwriter/actress, born in Rhode Island. Krissy was adopted at birth because her parents were too young to have children. Krissy began her career at an early age 8 with children’s musical theatre. She also, began writing poetry and short stories at an early age, using these as an outlet for her feeling of never finding her place in life. Krissy spent the early part of her life struggling through group homes in the city and learning life’s lessons the hard way.
While hitchhiking her way to shows around the country, Krissy Carlson found her calling. Music, lights, chaos and confusion attracted this young gypsy. She traveled around like this for 3 years and finally decided to go home and rest. This is where Harvest Tribe came into play. “While settling down in RI, we formed a band and started playing out. I concentrated on this for awhile and then went right into studio recording after the death of our lead guitarist Jester Jim. I started out recording in Maf‘s (Blank Fasiz) basement. Through him, I met up with Cee Knowledge (Doodlebug of the Grammy Award winning Digable Planets), and we hit it off immediately and started working together on his album. We did some shows together around the country, from New York To Los Angeles. Cee Knowledge began artist development for Cosmik in Sigma Sound Studios in Philadelphia, PA. I met up with numerous artists and did collaborations with Jah Sun (Born Rulers, King Britt) and Kai Chi (Cee Knowledge and the Cosmic Funk Orchestra, KingBritt). These collaborations inspired me. Cee Knowledge introduced me to another producer who then added some more life to my project, including a collaboration with Dave Ghetto (Nuthouse Crew). I then met up with Trakaddix members T.O. (Jaheim, Temptations, Ground Floor), Splift Out (Realism), Delick (Mike Weekes). We began recording solo tracks locally. I, then returned to Sigma, and recorded with in-house producer Don Wil and his brother Bigga Dre.
Moving up, I have worked on collaborations with Dice Raw of The Roots at ‘The Studio’ in Philadelphia, thanks to Jah. Also in Philly, Cosmik worked out of the legendary A Touch Of Jazz Studio. Cosmik worked on her first song with Grammy winning A.T.O.J. production team of Vidal Davis and Andre Harris (Usher, Alicia Keys, Musiq) and female producer Trinity. Also in Philly, Cosmik sang a hook for Des Devious (Outerspace, Jedi Mind Tricks). Recently, Cosmik took on a project with Edo.G (Edo.G and Da BullDogs, Pete Rock) through Jersey Roots Entertainment. Cosmik has also worked on collaborating with Jawge Hughes (Peter Tosh Celebration Tour) out of LA and Andrew McIntyre (Peter Tosh Celebration Tour, The Wailers) in NYC, Keys in Baltimore for Robot Music, and Bassist Rob Griffith in RI for Nyah Music. She also graduated Connecticut School of Broadcasting for radio and television. She has made her appearance on screen in an independent training video.
Krscrl8@cs.com, www.cosmikkrissy.com
