Karrin Allyson was born in Great Bend (Kansas) and grew up in Omaha (Nebraska). Her mother was a pianist and that is why Karrin started to play the piano when she was 5. She played the hits of the 70’s (James Taylor, Carole King, etc) because that what his father liked, and those were the first she sang. It was when she started in the University of Nebraska that the Jazz captivated her. Since then she had been nominated for two Grammy as the Best Female Jazz Singer and three albums nominated for the Best Jazz Album of the Year. Since 2000 she left Kansas City to move to live in New York.
Between her first album in 1992, "I didn't Know About You", until the one she published this year, "Round Midnight", Karrin has recorded 13 wonderful albums full of sensitivity and sensuality. All them have been produced by the same company "Concord". We upload the album she published in 2007 "Imagina: Songs of Brazil", in which she sings in her mother tongue, English, and in a very correct Portuguese the songs of important Brazilian singers such as Jobim, Stan Getz, Joao Gilberto, Elis Regina, Edu Lobo (whom we could see in Barril 1800 in Ipanema), Rosa Pasos or Vinicius de Moraes.
There are 14 songs which were chosen from many other wonderful Brazilian songs. To create this album she was helped by her friend and Portuguese teacher, Lucia Guimaraes. None of the songs are more important than the rest, but when listening to the first two songs, “A Felicidade” and “Correnteza”, the listener is trapped as when reading a very interesting book.
We finish echoing the desire she had when she finished this job: “No matter what your language is, I hope that these Brazilian songs talk directly to your heart as it happened to me”. And to us.
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