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Carla Harris<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She’s a Harvard-graduated Wall Street banker, but her true\u00a0delight is singing Gospel.<\/p>\n

Carla A. Harris\u00a0used to slip away from Morgan Stanley to perform\u00a0Harlem’s Apollo Theater amateur night, writes Kevin Roose\u00a0for the New York Times.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

She is one of the most senior African-American female executives on Wall Street. She also\u00a0sings in two choirs, has released three solo albums and has performed packed shows at Carnegie Hall.<\/p>\n

\u201cI always like to say that my success is not about who I am, but whose I am,\u201d the 48-year-old Harris told Roose, pointing to the sky during a recent interview\u00a0at Morgan Stanley where she “began her career in mergers and acquisitions, then worked her way up the equity capital markets ranks. She now runs the emerging manager platform at Morgan Stanley, where she advises asset managers owned by women and members of minorities,” writes Roose:<\/p>\n

She\u00a0began singing as a 9-year-old in her Catholic elementary school\u2019s talent show. She grew up on a steady diet of soul and R&B, but when she arrived at Harvard, she joined the Radcliffe Choral Society, an all-female classical choir. That forced her out of her comfort zone, she said.<\/p>\n

After Harvard, Ms. Harris did a short stint at Booz Allen Hamilton, a consulting firm, and got her M.B.A. at Harvard Business School before joining Morgan Stanley in 1987.<\/p>\n

At first, she said, she kept her passion for music hidden from her banker colleagues. On Wednesday nights, she would sneak out from the bank to go to Harlem, where she would watch amateur night performances at the Apollo Theater before heading back on the subway to the bank.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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