Education
She studied music in high school and church music programs, and graduated from Roosevelt University with a Bachelor of Music degree in 1978.
She studied music in high school and church music programs, and graduated from Roosevelt University with a Bachelor of Music degree in 1978.
Regina Harris was the third of eight children born in Chicago, Illinois, to parents Elgie Harris Junior., and Lanzie Mozelle Belmont Harris. She was exposed to the arts from an early age, took guitar lessons at age nine and began composing at ten. She continued her studies at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Northwest University, and graduated from New York University with a certificate in public relations in 1991 and from De Paul University with a Master of Music degree in 1995.
From 1986-1989, she worked as an audio quality control analyst for Telaction Corporation, and from 1989-1994 as a public relations director for Catholic Theological Union in Chicago.
After 2000, she was a lecturer at East-West University.
Poets and Patrons Award for Poetry for Teeter Totter, and Ghetto Child, 1980s McDonald’s Literary Achievement Award, for Mama’s Will, 1988 *Illinois Arts Council grant, 1995 Chicago Music Association award, 1995 Art Institute of Chicago grant for Gbeldahoven: Number One’s Child, 1997 National Endowment for the Arts Regional Artists Program grant for African Hands, 1997.
