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Karen Tobin Songs:
Song clips from Karen's CD That's What You Get |
Upcoming 2008 Gigs & News
- Saturday, June 21, 2008, 8PM - 11PM
KAREN TOBIN & JACK LEE with GUESTS
Calitalia, Zagat Award Winning, Fine Dining, California Seasonal Organic & Italian Cuisine
23536 Calabasas Road, Old Town Calabasas (Across from the Sagebrush Cantina)
http://www.calitaliarestaurant.com
For dinner reservations: call 818-223-9600
"We are proud to bring back by popular demand Karen Tobin and Jack Lee. Karen is a unique song stylist previously signed to Arista and Atlantic Records. Karen has been favorably compared to Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris. She will sing a tasty assortment of?songs from The Great American Songbook, featuring Gershwin, Porter, Billie Holliday, Peggy Lee and Sinatra as well as her own original songs from her latest album "That's What You Get". Jack Lee is a renowned pianist, vocalist & arranger who will join Karen for this engagement and they will bring along some fantastic guest artists. " - Karen was a singer on new OASIS CD, as a member of a 25 voice choir recording at the famous Village Recording Studio in Santa Monica. Yes, another Great Experience!
- Karen's participation at Oct 2007's We Spark Cancer Support Benefit helped raised over $2,400.00.
- Karen and producer Brian Soucy and Karen are currently producing two female artists, Royce Nelson and Suzi Oliver at SUNNYLAND STUDIOS in Sherman Oaks, CA (for more info call 818-905-7584), and are about to start the Debra Lee (Los Angeles Country singer) project.
- Karen recently sang on Neil Young's Living with War CD recorded at Capitol Records with the 100 Voice Choir... a fantastic experience!
Artist Info
A fan once said of her "She displays control and versatility with her mezzo-soprano vocal style. She's got just right amount of emotion in her performances to make you want to hear more." "Karen sings the heart right out of her chest." "Ms. Tobin wails out a shivering mountain edged soprano that's laced with a powerhouse of control and emotion"-- Cash Box." "Everything she does is wonderful, this woman has so much ability." - Robert Oremann, Music Row Magazine.
Karen was classically trained at the Bryn Mawr Conservatory of Music in her home state of Pennsylvania. She started singing professionally upon moving to San Francisco and ended up her stint there as a featured vocalist on the last Hot Tuna album. Shortly after moving to Los Angeles, Karen was signed to a recording contract by Clive Davis of Arista Records.
Keith Stegall (producer of Alan Jackson) heard her sing at the famous Palomino Club and was immediately hooked. Before she knew it, she was in Nashville recording some demos with Keith. The call from Atlantic Records came soon after and along with it, the release of the critically acclaimed album "Carolina Smokey Moon". Karen, with the help of her band, composed and recorded the CD "Karen Tobin and Crazy Hearts" on Big Otis Records. Karen was nominated as Best Country Artist by the Los Angeles Music Awards, along with Dwight Yoakum and Jim Lauderdale.
Her 2003 release is entitled "That's What You Get," and has been getting rave reviews for the vocal quality and the songwriting, uilizing the talents from some of the West Coast's most outstanding players and recording engineers.
Karen has had songs recorded and released by Artists in Switzerland, Holland, Japan and the United States. She can be heard singing on various movie soundtracks. She is a prolific songwriter with a sensitive lyrical style.
It has been said and written of Karen, "She will touch you to the bottom of your soul with her intensely emotional performances. All of her songs come from her real life situations. Her show should not to be missed."
This CD can be purchased online at CDBABY.
The powerful, sensitive singer, songwriter, Karen Tobin, is a veteran of the Los Angeles Country Music scene and former recording artist with Arista Records - New York, and Atlantic Records - Nashville. Ms. Tobin has been compared with such luminaries of the female vocalist elite as Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt. Her new release is on her own label Sunnyland Productions.
Taking time off to raise her two daughters, her song writing flourished. As her love for the music business prevailed, she started writing country songs stylistically influenced by the legendary Gram Parsons and the Flying Burrito Brothers. After forming the duo, Crazy Hearts (country's Fleetwood Mac), they were immediately asked to contribute a cut to the "Town South of Bakersfield Vol. II CD". Crazy Hearts became a local favorite, playing around the Los Angeles area, and at the Country music festivals. Word got out, and soon the folks from Nashville were interested in Karen's talents.
text, photos, music and recordings © 2007 Karen Tobin
email: ktobinmusic@att.net
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