| Summary: | Jazz musician Terri Lyne Carrington was born on August 4, 1965 in Medford, Massachusetts. Carrington graduated from Medford High School at sixteen, and attended Berklee College of Music for three semesters. A child drum prodigy, she received lessons from legendary jazz musicians Clark Terry and Dizzy Gillespie from age nine. When she was eleven years old, she was awarded a full scholarship to Berklee College of Music after a performance with Oscar Peterson in Boston. She recorded her first album, TLC and Friends, in 1981. Carrington toured with jazz legends Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter, before becoming the house drummer on The Arsenio Hall Show in 1989, and later drumming on Vibe, hosted by Sinbad. Carrington has won three Grammy Awards and been nominated as a jazz artist and producer. She became Zildjian Chair in Performance at the Berklee Global Jazz Institute, where she taught percussion since 2007.
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