mPowering You Opening: Singer Karen Linette

Musician and Recording Artist

Karen Linette, a Washington, D.C. area native, has been captivating audiences with her multi-octave vocal range. With twenty years of experience as a singer and collaborative artist, she has performed in many historic venues throughout the nation’s capital, including the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; Blues Alley; the Verizon Center, honoring our country with the National Anthem for Washington, D.C. teams the Washington Wizards and Washington Mystics. Karen has also graced the world-famous Apollo Theatre stage in Harlem, NY, Café di Simo in Lucca, Italy, and more recently the Warner Theatre in Washington, DC, lending skills as lead actress in Dennis Williams’ I’ve Cried the Blues stage musical. She has also shared the stage with national recording artists such as Norman Connors, Dawn Robinson of En Vogue, CeCe Peniston, Club Nouveau, Case, Miles Jaye, Anthony David, Miki Howard, Regina Belle, Tom Browne, Dexter Wansel, and a host of others. Her current EP titled Upside of Life, with the title track featuring national recording artist Najee, was submitted for a Grammy consideration for Best R&B Song and Best New Artist.