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Carolyn Striho has been kicking around Detroit for a long time, and she still has a lot to say. Her torchy arrangements, beguiling voice,and shapeshifting skills on guitar and keys defy easy description, being colored by punk, folk, rock and roll, jazz, and blues. Nominated for over sixty Detroit Music Awards, winner of Outstanding Rock/Pop Songwriter of the Year two years in a row (2015 and 2016), as well as Outstanding Americana Album of the Year 2014 for Word Attack and Outstanding Rock/Pop Album of the Year 2010 for Honesty. In 2009, her song “Enchante” received an honorable mention from Billboard Magazine for Song of the Year. You may have seen her in the Detroit Energy Asylum, in art punkers the Cubes, or maybe even in Was (Not Was). Over a dozen albums released since 1986, the most recent being 2016's Afterthought. New album, and a book, coming this year. She's a legend, but she's not resting any time soon.