Life and Career
She started to sing at an early age and in 1955 she was hired by the pianist Kjell Karlsen to sing in his sextet.
Her great grandfather is the Norwegian composer, musician, genealogist, folklorist and local historian Anders Heyerdahl (1832-1918).
In 1962 she started her first group and that same year she become a student of the well-known Norwegian-American singer Anne Brown. Karin studied with Brown until 1969. In the 1960s she also performed with the rhythm and blues band Public Enemies, releasing the hit singles Sunny and Watermelon Man.
During her career, she has worked with such musicians as Vigleik Storaas, Terje Rypdal, Arild Andersen, Jan Garbarek, Dexter Gordon, Kenny Drew, Don Ellis, Steve Kuhn, Archie Shepp, John Surman, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Red Mitchell, and Bengt Hallberg among others.
In 1994 she was the first Norwegian artist to release an album on U.S. Verve, an anniversary album with cuts from the last 30 years of record production - and the appropriate title Jubilee.
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