Originally from Maracaibo, Venezuela and now living in Boston, MA, has been singing professionally since 1987. She has been trained by renowned Choir Directors and vocalists Victor Galvan and Pierino Priolo from her native town where she was the lead singer for several local pop/rock cover bands who were the town’s choice to open for international artists where she participated as a recording artist for many local artists productions and film scores as well as radio jingles.
She moved to Boston in 1995 and continued her vocal training with Berklee College of music alumni Cesar Munoz for jazz and Venezuelan folk music and in New England Conservatory of Music with Director Hobert Yates for Gospel music. She continues to expand her musical studies by participating in Gospel workshops throughout the country including GMWA and Thomas A Dorsey Institute participating in choir conducting, tambourine, solo performance and choir choreography.
She has participated in multiple CD productions such as GMWA Mass choir and Praise Collective winning independent music awards and produced Voices of a Dream renaissance choir CD with whom she sang for 3 years and her own Latin Jazz recordings.
She currently belongs to 10 Gospel Choirs where she is a frequent soloist including New England Conservatory of Music Community and Millennium Gospel Choirs, Boston Pops Gospel choir performing at Symphony Hall since 1999. She has toured with several Gospel Choirs such as JVOI, OHF and NEC choirs nationally and internationally (Europe, South America and Africa). In 2009 she participated in a Gospel group Thando4Thanda who won the best acapella group 2009 and in Best of Both Worlds Broadway musical with the Glorious Voices choir.
Most of the choirs have performed at multiple local, national and international venues featuring Gospel and Jazz artists such Kurt Carr, Richard Smallwood, Daryl Coley, Donald Lawrence and Jennifer Holiday among others.
 In addition to her Gospel work she is a Latin Jazz vocalist and lead of her Vida Vibrante band working with various Jazz musicians such as guitarist Mat Boland and piano players Nicolas Villamizar and Leo Blanco, among others, performing for private and public venues in Boston MA, and other cities since 2002. You can listen to some of the clips in www.reverbnation.com/carolinachacin and to see more details about the band member bios.
Music is her #1 passion but she is a full time software engineer and an active tri-athlete and studio salsa dancer.