For thiry years Dr. Henry Karlin has juggled the demands of dentistry with an abiding love of the music he grew up with.

An avid participant in the explosion of popular music that erupted in the 60s, he spent the early 1970’s living on Formentera in the Balearic Islands of Spain, IN 1981 he accepted a commission in the US Public Heath Service who assigned him to St. Thomas ,U.S. Virgin Islands.

He has practiced there ever since. His daughters Shana Wolfe and Alexis Karlin are native Virgin Islanders. An esteemed member of the community, he enriched his island home via community service to his daughter’s schools, the Rotary club, (past president 2002-2003 and many other worthy projects.

During his tenure in St. Thomas , he also indulged his passion for music in various ways. As “the Doc of Rock” he did a weekly radio show on WIVI FM, (that featured the Grateful Dead hour) for 5 years. He produced concerts featuring the Dave Brubeck quartet (and sons). blues artists Curtis Salgado, Deborah Coleman, and Susan Tedeschi, and Tom Rush and Sara Hickman

A guitarist/bassist, he performed as a member of Groundsea and the Ten K Band. For over a dozen years, he and partner Richard Jansson (R.J. Nuisance), played hundreds of gigs on St. Thomas, St. Croix, Jost Van Dyke and St. John. He is proud of his affiliations with Chris Klein and the Boulevards, (of New Orleans ), Dick Michaels and Stan Bronstein (of Elephant’s Memory), in the band Rogue, Nicki Russell (the Mighty Whitey), Tony Juliano and Morgan Rael.

Recently, he played guitar for the Pistarkle Theater's
productions of the Rocky Horror Show and Hair.

As a lyricist, he would cite everything he has ever heard or read as influences. At this moment, he would give a shout out to the late Lowell George, Alfred E. Neuman, and the recession. Tomorrow he’d cite someone else.