Karen Akers increased her profile by appearing in her second Broadway musical, {+Grand Hotel}, in 1989, which may have helped her find a home at DRG Records after recording only two previous solo albums, Presenting Karen Akers on Sterling Records in 1981 and In a Very Unusual Way on Cabaret Records in 1987. Unchained Melodies, her DRG debut, typically found her taking on a well-chosen selection of show tunes from stage and film musicals. Among the contemporary material, she...   [ read more ]

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Karen Akers relates the song choices on her fourth album, Just Imagine..., to her marriage to Kevin Power, which occurred only three months before the recording sessions. Thus, the material is, if anything, even more tilted toward the romantic than usual. But that is not to say that the emotional range and subject matter are limited. Rather, different aspects of a loving relationship are examined, for example in "Ain't Misbehavin'" and "I'd Rather Be Blue," both of which discuss aspects of l...   [ read more ]

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Karen Akers' seventh album, Feels Like Home, will please her longtime fans, but it is unlikely to win her new ones. Recording in England under the auspices of her husband, Kevin Power, as producer, Akers uses only piano accompaniment by Don Rebic on a selection of songs that, while not entirely sung in French as on her Under Paris Skies, heavily emphasizes her affection for the country in which she lives as an expatriate resident. "I'm Not Afraid," the leadoff track, has the same music...   [ read more ]

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