Shawna Miller is a singer and songwriter from Northern California, specializing in jazz, rock, blues, and r&b. In 1995, she began her first four years of private vocal coaching and sang lead in her first band, Lil' Shaggy. In 1998 Shawna enrolled at Sonoma State University as a jazz major, where she studied  theory and improvisation with Professor Mel Graves. In 2002 she began receiving vocal instruction from professional opera singer, David Gordon, and briefly, from Classical Indian singer, Lakshmi Tewari. In 2004 Shawna completed her BA in Music with a concentration on voice and began teaching private vocal lessons. During her years at Sonoma State, her main project was singing backup for the Roots Reggae band, Groundation. In her six years of singing with Groundation, Shawna had the opportunity to perform with legendary artists such as Gregory Isaacs, Marcia Higgs, Pato Banton, Don Carlos of Black Uhuru, Apple Gabriel of Israel Vibrations, Midnite from St. Croix, and the Wailers.  From 2004 to 2009, she was the lead singer for an original rock band called Plum Crazy and had the opportunity to share the stage with artists such as Garaj Mahal, the Mother Hips, the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, Tea Leaf Green, and Melvin Seals and the Jerry Garcia Band. During her thirteen years of performing on stage professionally, Shawna has explored musical theater, folk, gospel, jazz, blues, r&b, funk, motown, rock-n-roll, reggae, bluegrass, children's music, techno, classical Indian music, baroque, and chamber music. Her motto is "The voice is an intrument...play it like one!"  She is currently involved in four projects, including an eighteen-piece swing band, the Moonlighters, Shawna Miller and the Cats, a duo called Swinging Dogtail, and a dance cover band called Electric Avenue.  Her passion for composing takes her beyond her role as a singer, with compositions varying from r&b to country music, and every style between. Shawna Miller is a full-time teacher at Stanroy Music Center in Santa Rosa, CA. In the past five years, she has worked with hundreds of students in every age group and helped them to find their own voices.