Colleen Harris

Hi, and welcome! I'm Colleen - a storyteller, producer, and presenter working across music, culture and social history.

Sixteen years at BBC News shaped my career as a journalist, producer, and presenter, working across national and regional output including the Six and Ten O’Clock News and BBC World TV output. The work moved between fast-turnaround daily news and opportunities for arts and culture reporting and human-led storytelling.

Today, I work independently across creative storytelling, writing, media training, and moderating panels and roundtables in the music and cultural sectors. I write for leading industry magazine Music Week and serve as a judge for the Music Week Awards and Women In Music Awards, keeping me closely connected to emerging talent and industry conversations.

‘Guitars of R&B’ is my YouTube interview series spotlighting top-level R&B session guitarists with credits spanning Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, James Brown, and Beyoncé. I lead all aspects of the project - guest curation, editorial direction, interviewing, post production (video and audio), branding, artwork design, digital distribution and audience engagement (see links below). The series was created to highlight leading guitarists while broadening access and visibility for underserved audiences within the guitar industry.

My creative journey began in music, studying at the BRIT School of Performing Arts, and performing professionally, culminating in a MOBO Award in 1999. Today, in a return to roots, I play guitar as part of an ongoing creative practice.

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