Kerri/Carolyn Schwartz:  

Life I grew up in the South Bay and went to college at Cal State Dominguez..After college, jobjobs until 1990..about 20 years of sales related corporate jobjobs... Then..I gave it all up for a career in the arts.. music and acting...spent 9 years as Carla, Queen of Karaoke in the bars and restaurants and hotels of LA...The last 6 years I have been a traveling entertainer/educator/all around fun kind of gal for the senior citizens in the South Bay in board and care houses...many of them in Palos Verdes and Rolling Hills Estates...I spend every Wednesday on the hill, eat at Bristol Farms and drive past the high school...now called Peninsula..I love my life and am now working on a reality-based show about my life and the houses as well as a sitcom based on my life and travels and experiences as the Queen of Karaoke.. Then, of course, there's the book and CD also in the planning stages..You can hear my song "Not Now" on the net at songpeddler.com listed under the author's name..Bruce Antman...I am the female vocalist...The funny thing is, it finally is NOW.... College College was really a place to get away from home.. although I went to a local college, I stayed at school as long as possible, with rehearsals for choir and theatre productions as well as part time jobs at the College Bookstore and the Theatre Box Office... I mostly remember doing plays and rehearsals and parties afterward...I also did academics, but more and more focused on my chosen major, MUSIC FOR THE THEATRE, which required lots of rehearsals and late nights, which meant early morning classes started to disappear from my schedule. I enjoyed Anthropology and Psychology and Physics classes...got incredibly overwhelmed by the German language class...they were reading Goethe in the original german script and I was doing ALM Conversational dialogues...I was out of my league ..This was the hippy years, with the Vietnam War in full swing. One...Expand for more