The best artists display gifts that are beyond the reach of the rest of us. It’s as if they’re channeling a higher power, an energy, speaking words that couldn’t have possibly come from them, singing in a voice that defies mere mortals.
Young Shannon began plunking the keys at just three years of age; formal lessons soon followed, but she admits she wasn’t very good at playing what someone else wanted her to play. So she forged her own path, following the music as she heard it inside her he...