Cheryl Arena

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Cheryl sizzles with excitement as she mesmerizes audiences with her sultry voice and powerhouse energy. She is a triple threat- a great songwriter, vocalist and blows harp like there's no tomorrow... Hailing from Boston, Massachusetts, she began playing harmonica and immersing herself into the Blues in 1987. Boston was an inspiring place to be as she was surrounded by so many talented harmonica and horn players. Her earliest childhood memories relating to music were listening and singing along with her mother's Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday records. At the age of 8 she began taking lessons on the accordion which in hindsight might have been what led her to the harmonica at the age of 15. Leaving the lessons behind and being a total ear player she soon got frustrated with the harmonica, only having one harp in the key of G and she gave up after only playing for one year trading it in for a guitar. Several years later at a jam session with her bass guitar in tote, she saw a harmonica player with several harps and asked the daunting question "why do you have so many harps?"..after finding out the "secret"..it was the key to unlock the door... the next day she bought a few different key harps and it was on...the point of no return! She knew this was her calling so she went looking for a job that she could support herself while at the same time focusing on practicing harmonica...that job was driving limos. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons

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