Carmen Velma Shepperd (October 30, 1910 – December 6, 1997) was an American singer, pianist, and educator, born in Jamaica.

[3] As a young singer, Shepperd earned medals from the New York Music Education League.

She pursued further studies in France, in the class of 1947 at the Fontainebleau School of Music.

[11] She sang works by Black composer Harry Burleigh as part of "The Three Nightingales", with her Juilliard classmates Ruby Elzy and Anne Brown.

[17] Her school was awarded a service medal in 1931 by the New York Music Week Association, at a Carnegie Hall event,[2] and continued into the 1950s and 1960s.