Karyn White

Infobox musical artist
Name = Karyn White

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Background = solo_singer
Born = Birth date and age|1965|10|14|mf=y
Origin = Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Genre = R&B, Urban, Pop, Club/Dance
Occupation = Singer-songwriter, Interior Designer
Years_active = 1986-1995
2006
Label = Warner Bros. (1986–1995)

Karyn White (born Karyn Layvonne White on October 14, 1965) is a Grammy Award-nominated Pop/R&B singer who became popular during the late 1980s.

Biography

White was born in Los Angeles, the youngest of five children. She sang in a church choir and worked as a backing singer, then sang on Jeff Lorber's single "Facts of Love" before signing to Warner Bros. Records. She graduated from Howard University Fact|date=January 2008.

White married Terry Lewis in 1992 and together they had a daughter, Ashley Nicole. They eventually divorced, and she later married producer/musician Bobby G, a virtuoso guitarist.

Recent Times

She currently resides in Sacramento, California and runs a successful Interior Design business ["Superwoman: The Best Of" liner notes ] . In 2006 she recorded a new album, titled "Sista Sista"; which was slated for release in 2006, but has since been shelved. Two tracks from the shelved album, "All I Do" and "Disconnected", were later released on the Best-Of compilation "".

Career

White's self-titled debut album "Karyn White" was released in 1988. It was produced by L.A. Reid & Babyface and achieved platinum status. "Karyn White" contained the hit singles "The Way You Love Me", "Secret Rendezvous" (#6 in the U.S., her biggest hit at the time), "Superwoman" and "Love Saw It" a duet with Babyface.

Her follow-up album was "Ritual of Love" in 1991. It had songs produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis and featured the hit single "Romantic", which hit number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. Other singles from the album include "The Way I Feel About You" (U.S. #12), "Walkin' the Dog," and "Do Unto Me" (the last two did not chart). The photographer and director Matthew Rolston directed the video for the hit single Romantic. Michael Walls, who is credited as stylist on the Ritual of Love album, worked closely with Karyn White on the look for the Ritual of Love cover and 3 of the music videos released for the album. Walls brainstomed the idea for the Chanel inspired simple pearls and black dress used on the album cover, the french maid look and multiple wardrobe changes for the "The Way I feel About You" video, and the colorful "Walkin' the Dog" video, which was based on a scene from the film Sweet Charity.

Her next album was "Make Him Do Right" in 1994. The album did not sell particularly well, although she did chart with the singles "Hungah" and the Babyface-penned "Can I Stay With You", which became her final U.S. R&B Top 10 hit in early 1995. "I'd Rather Be Alone", her last chart single to date, peaked at #50 on the same chart later that year. White left Warner Bros. Records afterwards, and dropped out of the music public eye for many years to start a family.

Discography

Albums

ee also

*List of number-one hits (United States)
*List of artists who reached number one on the Hot 100 (U.S.)
*List of number-one dance hits (United States)
*List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance chart

References