Karen Alexander - Bermuda Triangle video free download


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Uploaded: 2013/07/12

She was born in Los Angeles, California, and grew up in one of the suburbs of Hollywood. Her father had a psychoanalytic practice in Beverly Hills. In 1965 she married Esfandiar Bahrampour, an Iranian architect and moved to Tehran. While Karen was living in Tehran she travelled back to the U.S., now and then. On one of these trips she bought a guitar and started writing songs. As a first step in her singing career she started to sing in clubs. Although it was not done for women to sing in Iran, she continued to write songs there, and sent her tapes to America. She obtained a record contract in the early seventies, and before she recorded her first album she appeared as a backing vocalist on albums by Maria Muldaur and Wendy Waldman.[1] Her first album was Isn't It Always Love (1975). She wrote all the songs herself, except for the title song, which was written by Karla Bonoff.[2] Her songs had an up-tempo rhythm and entertaining lyrics.

Three years later she recorded her second and final album, Voyager. This album had a more melancholic atmosphere, and the tempo of most songs was slower than on her first album. In Tehran she had a job at CBS Records, but the Iranian Revolution was growing more and more severe, the CBS office in Tehran closed, and Karen Alexander lost her job. Although by that time many foreigners were already leaving the country, Karen and her husband decided to stay. Eventually, the situation became too dangerous and she fled with her family in 1979. In America they moved first to Portland, Oregon, and later to Palo Alto, California.

Comments

8 years ago

pierocrida

marvellous singer and precious lyrics....

9 years ago

Joe Whitney

What an amazing singer and the backstory is so insperational. We are ready for your return. It is time to do another album. 

9 years ago

FockeWulf200C

Have been trying to track her music for some years. Finding this internet process with its various media outlets very helpful. Especially interested in finding her tune "Isaac newton" which I used to hear a great deal on KUNC out of Greeley, Colorado in the eighties and nineties. . . I now have a track on the album it was recorded on, and sources to pick it up. I remain an overall music enthusiast, and still proud to pick things up on vinyl. Thanks for these tracks.

10 years ago

peter meijvis

i've been looking for videos from karen alexander for years. i listened to the album: isn't it always love when i was young. i remembered the song brown shoes very well. please post all music you have from her. peter..holland

10 years ago

boogieabilly

I discovered Karen in one japanese site, her voice and style remember another great singer/songwriter, Laurie Styvers. Do you have her first album to upload? Thanks...

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