Personal Life
Carah was born in Santa Barbara and moved to Newbury Park at age 5. She started taking voice lessons at an early age and sang in a professional show choir called Fresh Chances for America for about four or five years (with performances at events and venues like the Reagan Library and Amway Diamond Convention).
She has said that her main musical influences were Ella Fitzgerald, Etta James and Nancy Sinatra, and also Whitney Houston and Björk, among the contemporary singers. Carah's earliest muse was her grandfather, Arnold Moselle, a World War II fighting captain who sang in a "big band-ish" group called "The Nightingales". He used to sing lullabies to her like Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole, and he encouraged her to pursue a musical career.
After high school, Carah's dream was to go to New York and attend The Juilliard School. Instead, she went to Moorpark College and "did some garage band stuff that didn't go anywhere". Through a friend she met Jeremy Dawson, who needed a vocalist to record dummy versions of pop songs he was writing for other artists.
In early 2004, Jeremy Dawson invited Carah to sing with Shiny Toy Guns, which he'd formed with Chad Petree in 2002. She remained the female vocalist of this band until the summer of 2008, when she was released. Almost immediately after her sudden release from Shiny Toy Guns, her current band Versant began to form in Sweden. In a February 2009 interview, Carah said that she spent most of her time in Sweden (Vänersborg) working on music for Versant and takes occasional trips back to California.
Carah was married to her bandmate Daniel Johansson.
On February 11, 2011 it was revealed that Carah had re-joined Shiny Toy Guns as their co-lead singer and that Daniel Johansson had joined the band as well.
On May 10, 2012 Shiny Toy Guns announced that Daniel Johansson was no longer with the band, the main reason being the termination of his long term relationship with Carah Faye.
Carah also claims to be Straight Edge and to have never had a drink of alcohol.
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