Sarana VerLin

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Sarana VerLin (born September 19, 1953) is a violinist, a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She was the vocalist/violinist of the bands Natasha and Dark Carnival and fiddler for Amadon Crest.

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Sarana was classically trained on violin starting at age 10 and performed in The International Youth Symphony which was founded by Windsor Symphony Orchestra conductor Matti Holli. After high school, she played guitar and rock violin with other musicians for many years. In 1979 after a feature article about women in rock appeared in the Detroit News, she decided to front her own band called Natasha. They were active until 1985 and during that time she also worked on projects with Don Was, Eminem producer Steve King and Marilyn Manson producer Ben Grosse. They toured extensively throughout the the midwest and Canada.

In 2000, she appeared in the Detroit Metro Times Hall of Fame after winning best instrumentalist 3 years running for the Detroit Metro Times Music Awards (a.k.a the Detroit Music Awards). She has been featured in numerous articles in the Detroit Free Press, Goldmine (magazine), Trouser Press, Metro Times, and the Detroit News as well as television and radio appearances.

Sarana later went on to front the supergroup Dark Carnival along with Niagara, which was a rotating group of superstars from the Detroit Area...most notably Ron Asheton, Scott Asheton, Cheetah Chrome of the Dead Boys and Jim Carroll.

In 2004 she switched her talents from rock to celtic, performing at renaissance and pirate festivals such as the Michigan Renaissance Festival. She currently performs with the group Amadon Crest. Her most well known and popular song is St. Brendan's Reel, a song about St. Brendan.

Sarana currently lives in the Detroit area.


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