**SPIRIT -- Video courtesy of Soul By Dzyne (Thank you!!)
**LIVE AT THE BLUE NOTE -- YESTERDAY'S DREAMS
**LIVE AT JOE'S PUB -- HAIR I AM
Musical Director and Pianist Extraordinare - Greg Spooner.
Funky, A** Lead Guitar - Ronny Drayton.
All Up Inyo' Face Bass - Eddie Cordew.
Eargasmic Funk Rockin Drums - Lionel Cordew.
Pleasantly Aiming to Tease Keys - Anthony Reno Stewart.
Horny If U Let 'em Trumpet- Geoff Mattoon
BG Vocals from Heaven - Keith Fluitt
BG Vocals from the Baby Daddy Mike Hammond//
God Is Love, Life -n- Music..Just Surrender! Peace Karen Bernod
Influences
Natalie Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Chaka Khan, Minnie Ripperton and all of those I haven't mentioned but have paved the way for all of us.
Sounds Like
I don't really think I sound like anyone in particular. My mom made me develop my own style. She'd always say.. KAREN stop tryin to sound like her, him. They already have careers. But I would say my inflections and my tone and phrasing lends toward these Beautiful songstress.....
Natalie Cole, Chaka Khan, Ella Fitzgerald, Minnie Ripperton, Roberta Flack
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‘Life @ 360 Degrees’ is a stunning second solo album from one of New York’s finest singers Karen Bernod. Having previously performed with Chaka Khan, Mary J. Blige, Incognito, D’Angelo and Erykah Badu – she gets another chance to step center stage with this confident, self-composed set. Back in the Nineties Karen was featured vocalist with Incognito on three cuts on their ‘No Time Like The Future’ album, and was part of the band’s live line-up. Prior to that, she sang on numerous dance tracks, was writer and vocalist on the Cooltempo club anthem ‘Motherland’, sang on Barbara Tucker’s ‘Beautiful People’, sang background vocals on albums by Whitney, Luther, Stephanie Mills, Paul Simon, the Pet Shop Boys. She was also a lead in the off Broadway production of ‘Mama I Want To Sing’. In 2000 she released her debut solo album ‘Some Othaness For U’, which attracted a lot of critical acclaim and introduced her as an artist in her own right. And now, working for the second time with co-producer and co-writer Greg Spooner, she offers the unique Bernod take on life with ‘Life @ 360 Degrees’. Karen’s jazzy inflections, her inherent soulfulness, her humor, shine through – cuts like ‘Comfort Zone’, ‘Subway Love Game’, ‘Truth Iz’ and ‘Love Is’ are outstanding confirmation that soul music is alive and well in New York City. Karen also goes up-tempo on the final cut for a remix of ‘Lookin' For Love’, a song originally featured on her debut set.
Hey girl...hit me up! I got some friends are out your way with the NAACP Convention and are looking for some things to do. Are you playing anywhere? Any suggestions? Lemme know ASAP!
I RODE DOWN THE LONELY HI-WAY With the top down, the sounds of the ocean waves mixed with the soul of my 8 track player Michael Jackson crooned, “I Wanna Be Where You Are” My Blues bled into the dark sky My eyes were on the road but, I see her at every mile marker, and with every star that sparkled above I pushed on the gas as my heart raced Where am I going? Anywhere she might be Teasing my soul hoping she was headed to me Whoooo… I took that corner too fast Slow down and live with the memories My 8 track player switches songs and my mind flips and trips as Michael Jackson sings, I Wonder Who Lovin.. You I fight the winds from blowing me over into on coming traffic I fight my heart and mind and stay focused as push buttons on the 8 track, The Jackson 5 sing, “The Love You Save May Be Your Own” I pass slow traffic and get on the straight and narrow and reminisce Like when we were lovers in the night She is sitting on my love Her hands spread on my chest Her lips and eyes smile Feeling my love We were cruising after we had climbed a mountain I’m watching her mountains rise and fall, and drip on me She and I create streams that lead to her river I hold on to her firmly I sing along with Michael Jackson, “Never Can Say Goodbye” Whoooo… I almost ran off the road I’m squeezing the driving wheel with all my might; my hands are numb I look to the passage seat I’m alone on this lonely hi-fi-hi-way I check my seat belt, adjust my mirror, and try to adjust to the fact…she is gone I turn the 8 track up, and hit repeat… and again Little Michael Jackson sings, “I wanna Be Where You Are” I hit the gas and head home
cr@2009 Alvin Lloyd Alexander Horn the author of the best selling romantic novel BRUSH STROKES http://alvinhorn.com
You have surely heard about the tragic death of Neda - a brave young woman who was murdered in Iran just for peacefully protesting with her father on the streets of Teheran.
