Pianist/vocalist Champian Fulton grew up with music in her home. Her father (jazz
trumpeter and educator Stephen Fulton) and mother quickly recognized their daughter’s
interest in music at an early age. The presence of her father’s musician friends,
including Clark Terry and Major Holley, also served to stimulate her focus on music.
She began studying piano with her grandmother at the age of five, while she later took
up singing, drums, and trumpet before eventually settling on piano and vocals. The
family moved to Lemars, IA, in 1994 after Stephen Fulton became director of the Clark
Terry Institute for Jazz Studies. Champian participated in the summer camp jazz
program there, where she met other young jazz musicians from her area and formed
the Little Jazz Quintet. They would get together to perform a couple of times annually
for the next few years, playing shows consisting exclusively of Terry’s repertoire,
including Terry’s 75th birthday party.
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