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Karen Williams moved to California from her native Atlanta, Georgia to complete her studies in music. From Emory University, the Beverly Hills Playhouse to USC, the talented artist crafted the timbre of her voice and polished her piano playing skills.Raised in the South, Atlanta, GA, Karens musical journey began at the early age of eight when her mother expressed the wish to have her play in her elementary schools band. However, one obstacle had yet to be overcome! Already having bought a clarinet for Karens older sister, her mother could not afford to buy her an instrument to play in the band too. As serendipity would have it, Karens mother luckily overheard another parent asking the band teacher to give piano lessons and jumped on the occasion to ask if Karen could be taught as well. From a real piano at school, to the imaginary one, the kitchen table at home, Karen religiously practiced. As for the singing, it was a natural progression since her father was a church choir singer. As early as age five Karen lent her vocal chords to the church choir. The beautiful soulful ingénue eventually added one more skill to her resume SONGWRITING. A natural ability Karen tuned her sense and sensitivity to shortly after landing in the city of Angels. After arriving in Los Angeles, and studying music at the University of Southern California, and then Music Theatre at the Beverly Hills Playhouse. Karen left to form a band that would play the sultry and heartfelt songs of love that were pouring from the artists soul. She surrounded herself with top of the line musicians (some of whom have been attached to legendary artists such as Billy Joel, Crosby, Still and Nash,Prince) and secured herself a clutch of live performances at some of Los Angeles hottest venues including the House of Blues, The Viper Room, The Cat Club, The Derby, Genghis Cohen, Monroe's and The Bel Age 1020 Club, to name a few.Influenced by the likes of Lenny Kravitz, Macy Gray, Nora Jones and Patti Labelle, Karen's music continued to evolve from an unusual fusion of pop, jazz, and R&B to now ROCK. Karen completed her first album entitled 'Its Personal' produced by Ralph Rickerman, the bass player of the Award-winning German Based band Scorpion and the Grammy Award-winning composer, Ricky Lawson in January 2006.. Karen's freshman CD 'It's Personal' was a collection of songs straight out of the singer's own personal experiences. Constantly growing and forever evolving, Karen is now working on her 'Rockin' new sound which she will debut by January 2008.