About

CARLY DELUCA, SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHER / TEACHING ARTIST / VOCALIST / MUSICIAN/ ACTRESS CARLY DELUCA is Art Start’s head teaching artist in the Homeless Youth Outreach Program.  A singer and actress, Carly also attended New School University for Creative Art Therapy and Psychology.  In addition to Art Start, she currently works as a Para-professional with the New York City Department of Education, dedicating her time to work with emotionally challenged and special education students. As a performer, she has been in productions in collaboration with The Producers Club, Mirage Productions, Fernwood Resort Theater, BTAP, Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting NY, Circle In The Square NY, and the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA). She received a scholarship to attend AMDA, focusing on classical opera, voice, ballet, tap, jazz improv, and theatrical performance.  Carly is the lead singer and musical director of the live band, Kicksonic. Artist BIO: A Brooklyn-based artist who not only has a voice but lyrics and the ability to produce her own music. At a young age she discovered that music was her passion and living in NY ignited her creative insight fueled by experiences as a theater student and stories from a life immersed in the city. It began with lessons on a soundboard with an old-school tape deck, a way for a cultured Brooklyn kid, ripped out of her element and placed into the country life of Pennsylvania, to pass the time. From that moment on she wrote, and over the next 12 years created countless songs and poems of a young girl struggling to be understood until she received a scholarship to attend AMDA and found her self-back in New York where she truly felt alive. Education continued with the New School University with a major in Creative art therapy and psychology to add to her musical theater experience. She continued her masters degree in education. Recently Carly worked with Teaching Artist AKIR, a talented producer/rapper who’s recent performance includes the Rock The bells Concert with Immortal technique, and Art start: One Mic volunteer up and coming rap artist Che Grand of Brooklyn, Spirit Child, Jessie Killgus, and Mc K~Swift. Art-Starts One Mic program, a non-profit organization where Carly had volunteered for three years. She spent her time there mentoring and teaching under privileged teens with creative writing, lyrical poetry, production, recording music, studio time, and the creation of a collaborative album used for Art Start Donations. Later Carly became a teaching artist in homeless outreach shelters . There she worked with children from the ages of 5-20 in music, theater, and art. Soon after she was given the opportunity to direct the Emerging Artist In Residency Program, a branch of One mic. During her time as Program director Carly worked as a Mentor, teacher, chaperone, event coordinator, and had to take on many other roles, helping the young men learn how to succeed in their chosen field of art. Carly’s recent performances include on stage, a multimedia performance with singer songwriter John Caspi in Asbury park NJ, that included a musical theater interpretation of Caspi’s album, told as a story, with music videos and a live band. She has had the privilege of DJing rooftop parties in Brooklyn, The Producers club and Sutra lounge in Manhattan. Carly has also developed her own performances including works of Urban Musicians and artists at Manny’s on Second. Most recently Carly developed the band Kicksonic and is currently the lead singer, flutist, and director of the group. Her band had performed throughout New York City in various venues, including Otto’s Shrunken Head, Fontana’s, Bar 4, Bar Reis, Manny’s on Second, Pianos, The Bitter End, Drom, Output and Sycamore. Currently the band is recording and album due for release for summer 2013. 2014 they became apart of an artistic group called Raw Artists. http://Www.rawartists.org/kicksonic To purchase the album please visit: http://www.reverbnation.com/kicksonic