Karine was born in Montreal, Canada. In her teens, she was inspired by Gladys Knight, Jennifer Holiday, Tom Jones, Patti LaBelle, and Barbara Streisand, along with many other great singers and writers. Karine began performing in professional musical reviews and on local television shows achieving for herself local critical acclaim. After one of her TV appearances, she was asked by Celine Dion to perform at her wedding. Karine also performed the opening song at Ms. Dion's wedding and wrote a special song for the wedding.After moving to New York, Karine began writing songs and performing across America and Canada. Because of her unique and powerful vocal delivery, she has been sought out by and worked with many accomplished songwriters and producers, such as, multi-Grammy Award Winning Jim Steinman, multi-Grammy Award Winning Diane Warren and others.Currently, Karine is putting the final touches on a pop album that was co-written and co-produced by Turkish superstar, Sezen Aksu.UPDATE: Karine's new album "I'll Be Alright" will be released on July 30th. Go to www.breakingrecordsmusic.com for more info. or you can purchase the Album at Amazon.com, cdbaby, iTunes and breakingrecordsmusic.com. Also, you can hear another track from the album called "Drink" on the Breaking Records myspace page. Karine has another No.1 on The World Charts in The United Kingdom; she also has a song listed as No. 3 on the World Charts and it is climbing! You may visit and listen to these songs and more at www.extraplay.com/karinehannah.
