Article May 29, 1978 Issue

An interview: with a rock singer

by FLORENCE MOUCKLEY

O Holy, Like the sleeping child,
Take all my tears to your sweet release
Oh wake the world to the secret of your peace.^{Music and lyrics by Carolina Edwards; © 1978 Castle Hill Publishing, Ltd. Used with permission;}

Carolina Edwards started singing on a rocking horse and has been singing ever since. She was so taken with music that when she was a little girl and saw the musical comedy Oklahoma! she came away with the impression that singing was the natural way people communicated with each other.

Singing was part of her life as she grew up on an Illinois farm, and singing hymns in a Christian Science Sunday School was "the high spot of the day." When she was twelve Carolina spent a summer in Wyoming and learned from a cowboy how to play the guitar. For each new chord she learned, she made up a song to go with it. Later she performed in a high school rock band and, during her college years, in coffeehouses.

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