Tara Trinity has always stood out in the crowd, whether its her petite "fun" size or her powerful voice. She appeared on Broadway in Paul Simon's musical The Capeman, hosted the Hispanic Youth Showcase which lead the show to receive its first Emmy award, has won over 25 piano competitions, and co-founded the polynesian dance company Aloha Island Revue. Tara Trinity graduated from the esteemed Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University with a dual degree in classical piano performance and fine arts and plays several self-taught instruments. She performed on camera and off since the age of four with piano, dancing, singing, and acting.

Tara Trinity was born and raised in New Jersey to a Hawaiian-Filipino father and a Puerto Rican mother and grew up singing in a church group in Philadelphia. After Broadway and college she moved around a bit between Indiana, NJ, Atlanta, Austin and finally settled in Washington, D.C. as an arts coordinator at a nonprofit. Only a year later she was faced with single motherhood. To make ends meet she became a columnist for a NYC online magazine New Latina while also becoming a freelance graphic designer and returned to polynesian dancing (hula and fire spinning). Through all of this hullabaloo she realized what had been missing for some time - music. With new pain and struggles, Tara began to write from deep within and performed her own original pieces at open mic nights around Washington, D.C. for anyone who would listen. In no time she was featured at numerous places in DC and NYC, performed shows with The 9 Songwriters Series and in 2013 was awarded Honorable Mention in the Mid-Atlantic Songwriting Competition for her original song "And I Love You" on vocals and ukelele. Through these venues she met a few other very talented musicians and in the last few months began a band to complete her own, unique sound. 

Tara Trinity's motivation and drive comes from her struggles in love, health and in being a single mother to her beautiful son Kai. She is hoping to get her music up on iTunes and complete her first EP very soon. Even though there is a serious side to her with music, she has her hobbies which include running her all-female football fantasy league, quoting comedy movies, and creating the ultimate milkshake.

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fun facts: spins fire poi balls, made the finals in the Real World - Paris, played Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar, has a dog named Trotter after her favorite football player Jeremiah Trotter

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