Don't look for Karen Oberlin on the pop charts; she's not one of those singers.
Karen Oberlin is a jazz and cabaret singer who specializes is traditional pre-rock pop, and she's played all of the prestigious venues in New York - the Oak Room at the Algonquin, Carnegie Hall, the Café Carlyle. The esteemed New York Times pop critic Stephen Holden has said that Ms. Oberlin "has impeccable style" and "musical intelligence," while Rex Reed of the New York Observer said she was "such a welcome addition to the often noisy and pointless cabaret scene that one can even imagine her accompanied by a celesta without causing the slightest hint of boredom."
Ms. Oberlin has done four albums of pop standards, including a live record of songs written by Frank Loeser and a tribute album to Doris Day (an earlier honoree on this blog).
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