Scarlet Rivera is an American

United States

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 violinist. She is best known for her work with Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...

, in particular on his album Desire and as part of the Rolling Thunder Revue

Rolling Thunder Revue

The Rolling Thunder Revue was a famed U.S. concert tour consisting of a traveling caravan of musicians, headed by Bob Dylan, that took place in late 1975 and early 1976; the prevailing theory was that the tour was named after the Native American shaman Rolling Thunder. Others maintained that tour...

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Early career

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...

 is often credited for discovering the violinist before the rehearsal for his 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue

Rolling Thunder Revue

The Rolling Thunder Revue was a famed U.S. concert tour consisting of a traveling caravan of musicians, headed by Bob Dylan, that took place in late 1975 and early 1976; the prevailing theory was that the tour was named after the Native American shaman Rolling Thunder. Others maintained that tour...

 tour. After a session with her, Dylan invited Rivera to play on the Rolling Thunder Revue

Rolling Thunder Revue

The Rolling Thunder Revue was a famed U.S. concert tour consisting of a traveling caravan of musicians, headed by Bob Dylan, that took place in late 1975 and early 1976; the prevailing theory was that the tour was named after the Native American shaman Rolling Thunder. Others maintained that tour...

 tour. Scarlet has multiple CD's as a composer in numerous styles, instrumental, New Age, Celtic and world music. Scarlet has performed in the US, Europe and Japan with her Celtic group. She also recorded and performed with Tracy Chapman, Indigo Girls, Kori Linae Carothers, Keb Mo and others. Scarlet was a soloist with the Duke Ellington Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center and the Carnival of Venice, Italy. She continues to be an active recording artist, performer and composer.

Mid-career

She has also appeared on albums by Tracy Chapman

Tracy Chapman

Tracy Chapman is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her singles "Fast Car", "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution", "Baby Can I Hold You", "Give Me One Reason" and "Telling Stories". She is a multi-platinum and four-time Grammy Award-winning artist.-Biography:Tracy Chapman was born in Cleveland,...

 (Crossroads), Keb Mo' (The Door), Dee Dee Bridgewater

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Dee Dee Bridgewater is an American Jazz singer. She is a three-time Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter, as well as a Tony Award - winning stage actress and host of National Public Radio's syndicated radio show JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater...

 (Just Family), David Johansen

David Johansen

David Roger Johansen is an American rock, protopunk, blues, and pop singer, as well as a songwriter and actor. He is best known as a member of the seminal protopunk band The New York Dolls and also achieved commercial success under the pseudonym Buster Poindexter.-Early life:Johansen was born in...

 (Funky but Chic), Ian McNabb

Ian McNabb

Robert Ian McNabb is a British singer-songwriter and musician from Liverpool, England. He is known both for his work as leader and songwriter-in-chief of The Icicle Works in the 1980s, and his critically acclaimed solo career throughout from the early 1990s to date...

 (Head Like A Rock) Kori Carothers,' Trilium' and others

Recent work

Scarlet has recently focused on New Age, Instrumental, World, and Celtic music. She has also toured in Japan with the group Ritual and recorded the album "Celtic" which was released in Japan. .

Personal life

Scarlet is of Irish-Sicilian ancestry. Scarlet was married in 1991 to the British session keyboardist Tommy Eyre

Tommy Eyre

Tommy Eyre was a session keyboardist from Sheffield, England, who appeared on records by Joe Cocker, John Martyn, Alex Harvey, Greg Lake, Michael Schenker, Gary Moore, B.B. King, John Mayall, Tracy Chapman and Wham!...

.The marriage lasted until his death in 2001.

Discography

• Scarlet Rivera (Warner Bros., 1977)
• Scarlet Fever (Warner Bros., 1978)
• Celtic Dreams (Bci/Eclipse Music, 1998)
• Celtic Myst (Bci/Eclipse Music, 1998)
• Behind the Crimson Veil – Scarlet Rivera and Tommy Eyre (Bci/Eclipse Music, 1999)
• Celtic Spirit (Bci/Eclipse Music, 1998)
• Classic Christmas
• Voice of the Animals (Scarlet Rivera, 2000)
• Journey With An Angel (Echo Sonic, 2003)
• Magical Christmas (Bci/Eclipse Music, 2004)
• A New Map Of The World (DISCONFORME SPAIN, 2004) by Ritual (Uruguay)

External links

• Scarlet Rivera's website