Carla Harvey was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan – a tough place for her to grow up in as she is

bi-racial, and Detroit was a racially divided city during that period. While her preference was always to be at home creating art and music, she held a variety of “day jobs” from being a department store  “perfume counter girl, to selling clothes at RAVE in the local mall, to working at a gas station, while playing in local bands at night, all to save up enough money to move to Los Angeles to follow her dreams.

Carla craved education, especially science.  She enrolled in Mortuary college and went on to be named valedictorian in her Bachelor of Mortuary Science program.  She has worked as a funeral director and embalmer, and founded her own grief counseling service, “Parting Stone,” an innovative death care company that transforms cremated remains into environmentally-friendly stones that the departed’s family can hold, treasure and honor forever.  While she is still 1000% an artist/singer/songwriter/guitar player/rock ’n' roller, even to this day, she often steps away from her music career, traveling all over the U.S. to "be there" for people who have lost a loved one.  She also just announced her newly-formed band, The Violent Hour, who are about to make their “playing live-in-concert” debut.

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Carla is a passionate collector of memorabilia, from the Incredible Hulk to Elvira to vintage Barbie Dolls, and more.  She still has her drink tickets from her first time at Hollywood’s Rainbow & Grill in the late ‘90s, a laminate and poker chip with Lemmy’s face on it from his last birthday party, and giant KISS dolls.  Carla finds authenticity and rawness intoxicating: her favorite artist is Robert Williams, actress is Juliette Lewis, and Charles Bukowski, who wrote “Ham on Rye,” is her favorite author.  She contends that no matter what may lay ahead for her, she’s always considered herself “just a mid-west, blue collar kid with big dreams.”

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