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La Mesa harpist Tasha Smith Godinez grew up in east county San Diego and attended San Diego State for her bachelor’s degree before heading off to France to study at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris. She returned to San Diego State for her masters and eventually became an adjunct professor at the University of San Diego.
Her 2020 album >em>HarpCHICK, featuring 12 Chick Corea songs, was released by Ennanga Records. "It’s mostly solo arrangements, but the great singer Leonard Patton joins me on three songs," she told the Reader.
A new album dropped in September 2022, Out of the Desert.