“It’s original gospel and it’s hot,” says singer/songwriter/i-banker Carla Harris.

Carla Harris, a 23-year Morgan Stanley veteran in bank’s investment management arm, where she advises companies and public pension managers on their portfolios, has just released her third full-length gospel album on iTunes. Harris started singing as a child in Jacksonville, Fla. She sang her way through Harvard and Harvard Business School and stuck with it as she started her career an analyst at Morgan Stanley.

She sang in New York churches and clubs — even Carnegie Hall. In fact, Harris occasionally croons for her clients. “I try to graciously decline, but if I’m pressed, I’ll do it,” she said. “I bring Carla the singer wherever Carla the banker goes.”

Praise Be: Morgan Stanley MD Goes Gospel [FINS]

Comments (32)

  1. Posted by Guest | March 24, 2011 at 9:58 PM

    Clearly there’s no Carla the album cover artist.

  2. Posted by Guest | March 24, 2011 at 9:58 PM

    Clearly there’s no Carla the album cover artist.

  3. Posted by Guest | March 24, 2011 at 9:58 PM

    Clearly there’s no Carla the album cover artist.

  4. Posted by Put_Option | March 24, 2011 at 10:19 PM

    Some great tracks on this album;

    - ‘Acquiring Jesus is always accretive’
    - ‘Qs and Ks are my Bible’

  5. Posted by Butt Buddy | March 24, 2011 at 10:37 PM

    , another minority set-aside from these people:

    http://www.morganstanley.com/about/press/articles/e3d7952b-ea60-11de-aec2-33992aa82cc2.html

    Carla has a “public figure” Facebook page: 968 fans FTW!

    Alphonse “Buddy” Fletcher, Jr.

  6. Posted by Bobby Jones, MBA | March 24, 2011 at 10:42 PM

    listeners might also enjoy:

    “Amazing Sharpe” and “He’s got the whole VAR in His hands”

  7. Posted by Ttt | March 24, 2011 at 10:55 PM

    Carla Walker’s full time job over the years has become simply to be a black woman Morgan Stanley can trot out to prove that there are actually a few of those working there. Her current job title is completely phony. It’s gotten sillier and sillier over the years, but I guess it works for both side, MS gets some fake multiculturalism credit and she gets a shitload of money for not doing much.

  8. Posted by trojan | March 24, 2011 at 11:07 PM

    haters wanna hate
    lovers wanna love
    i don’t even want
    none of the above

  9. Posted by MS mgmt | March 24, 2011 at 11:07 PM

    Don’t make us kill you

  10. Posted by Pig | March 24, 2011 at 11:25 PM

    - Stand by your dick
    - Jesus was a sucker
    - God always looks deep inside me
    - A river runs out of it
    - I have four arms to feed me

  11. Posted by Anonymous | March 24, 2011 at 11:32 PM

    there’s a whole lot of motives that need to be cheched up in here (up in here)…

  12. Posted by I'm a Dude | March 24, 2011 at 11:34 PM

    in the pic it looks like she tore up her bonus check and threw it in the air

  13. Posted by Chiangerang | March 25, 2011 at 12:05 AM

    are you an “Emerging Manager’? GMAT score or it didn’t happen.

  14. Posted by Buy, Hole, or Sell | March 25, 2011 at 12:08 AM

    Now we know the real reason behind the Whitney downgrade.

  15. Posted by Nobody | March 25, 2011 at 2:05 AM

    Who are you and why should I care?

  16. Posted by Dkr | March 25, 2011 at 2:38 AM

    you are such a bitch….you may get in but not everyone gets out of Harvard,..jackass..

  17. Posted by Put_Option | March 25, 2011 at 4:16 AM

    Well played sir

  18. Posted by sunitasam | March 25, 2011 at 9:03 AM

    OMG i thing women plays an important role now, this is so interesting…………love it Now we know the real reason behind the Whitney downgrade…:)

    http://freedesktop-wallpaper.com

  19. Posted by Playa | March 25, 2011 at 12:27 PM

    That’s not the type of “make it rain” I was looking for…

    MD Saurus

  20. Posted by Mexi-Cant | March 25, 2011 at 12:37 PM

    Affirmative…sigh

  21. Posted by Casper | March 25, 2011 at 1:23 PM

    Open up any religious text and try and read it with a straight face.

    If you’re sane, you can’t.

    Think you have “conversations” with God?

    You don’t.

    Religion = bizarre unsubstantiated Medieval voodoo. Prayer = mubbling to precisely no one. Your God = a fake invisible best friend who has no vested interest in seeing you pass the Series 7.

    Also, did you know that blacks and Mexicans don’t like honkies, but that they like each other even less?

    It’s true.

    My dad says that it has to do with the way that each demographic worships. Mexicans tend to be quiet and reverential when they’re celebrating the birth of their 8th child / blowing coin on the Catholic Church. Blacks, on the other hand, go completely bonkers in their Sunday “finery” (purple and orange suits), electing to perform back flips / shimmy about instead.

    The Mexicans think that such behavior by blacks in the House of the Lord if obnoxious.

    That’s why the two demographics are always fighting on the mean streets of Murray Hill.

  22. Posted by Spanishmoon | March 25, 2011 at 1:34 PM

    No, she’s in the fund seeding department and unfortunately, that was my presentation

  23. Posted by You are an idiot | March 25, 2011 at 1:47 PM

    please die

  24. Posted by winning_ trader | March 25, 2011 at 1:51 PM

    anyone hear about an arrest at DB involving camera’s in the bathroom?

  25. Posted by Amherst '08 | March 25, 2011 at 3:08 PM

    pics or it didn’t happen.

    -DB associate waiting patiently for some interesting news of the day

  26. Posted by Brah | March 25, 2011 at 3:41 PM

    Cool story, bro.

  27. Posted by GCarlin | March 25, 2011 at 4:04 PM

    My dad says F*ck your dad.

  28. Posted by winning_ trader | March 25, 2011 at 4:45 PM

    guess others have heard the same check out the new dealbreaker headline — only i hear from peeps at JPM it was DB

  29. Posted by Neezy | March 25, 2011 at 6:17 PM

    “Sunita”,

    Do you have an MBA or an FOB?

    Sincerely,

    The World

  30. Posted by Neezy | March 25, 2011 at 6:17 PM

    “Sunita”,

    Do you have an MBA or an FOB?

    Sincerely,

    The World

  31. Posted by Neezy | March 25, 2011 at 6:17 PM

    “Sunita”,

    Do you have an MBA or an FOB?

    Sincerely,

    The World

  32. Posted by Eyes | March 25, 2011 at 6:45 PM

    FTW

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