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Kathie Jarra

Kathie Jarra is the lead singer / guitarist and songwriter / producer for the heavy metal band, STYGMATA. Jarra was also the same in her first band, Jarra that was signed to Lion Music (www.LionMusic.com) in 2000 with the release of her heavy metal charting CD, Test of Faith. After completing her obligation with Lion Music, the singer went on to form her own record label, The Karma Records Group LLC in Scottsdale, Arizona (www.KarmaRecordsGroup.com) and has now added to her many credits, metal label president and CEO.

Kathie Jarra was born in South Jersey where she spent the early years of her career singing in Church and in local rock bands and playing local bars. Singing from birth and playing piano and writing songs from the age of 5 on, the singer would go on to form her first heavy rock band at the age of 16 called, Streetrocker where they played covers of european metal bands like The Scorpions, Black Sabbath, Rainbow, Accept and UFO who she still today calls her major songwriting influences. Jarra fronted Streetrocker as a five piece band that was beginning to add Jarra's original tunes one by one to the set list. Tiring of that, Jarra soon took over one of the guitar positions and went on to form a new band after falling in love with Gibson Flying V guitars and Michael Schenker's guitar playing (early Scorpions, UFO) and went on to form The Band, Jarra and performing strictly original music.

This was the beginning also of the singer's recording career.