Karen Oberlin

Based in NY, Karen Oberlin is really a flexible singer/actress that has performed vocal jazz in addition to cabaret and traditional pre-rock pop. Oberlin, whose affects (immediate or indirect) range between Barbra Streisand to Ella Fitzgerald to Doris Day time, is with the capacity of performing straight-ahead bop but is usually definately not a jazz purist or perhaps a jazz snob. About a minute, she might improvise her method through a difficult bop regular like Horace Silver’s “Doodlin'” and display her gratitude of vocalese icon Annie Ross; another minute, she may be Streisand-minded and accept traditional pop or cabaret (although she doesn’t enter the type of campy lyrics that some modern cabaret singers are recognized for). Although Oberlin offers benefited from particular areas of Fitzgerald’s ballad design, she isn’t almost as gritty. Oberlin (who’s the child of two traditional musicians) mementos a sweetly susceptible style of performing, and her tone of voice has a clear, crystalline quality — she certainly offers among the prettier voices within the cabaret, jazz, and traditional pop areas. Unlike many comparable vocalists, Oberlin will not limit herself to Tin Skillet Alley requirements. Though she embraces a whole lot of standards which were written within the ‘20s, ‘30s, and ‘40s, the brand new York resident isn’t hostile to rock and roll or R&B composers. Oberlin understands her Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Rodgers & Hart, and George Gershwin — the fantastic American Songbook, quite simply — but she’s also included tunes by Joni Mitchell (“Barangrill,” Randy Newman “When She Loved Me”), and Elvis Costello (“Shipbuilding”) in her repertoire. In ny, those who find themselves acquainted with Oberlin understand her on her behalf acting in addition to her performing. In the past due ‘90s, she performed among the leading functions within the off-Broadway play Our Sinatra. And Oberlin (who made an appearance around the ABC cleaning soap opera All My Kids) performed Doris Day time in her 2001 perform Secret Like: A Tribute to the real Doris Day time. In the first 2000s, Oberlin documented her debut record, My Specifications, for Miranda Music. Her second record, Secret Appreciate: The Music of Doris Time, was presented with an August 2002 discharge time by Miranda.