Karen O

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Karen O performing with Yeah Yeah Yeahs in 2009
Karen O performing with Yeah Yeah Yeahs in 2009
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Where the Wild Things Are (Karen O and the Kids)
  US 35 10/17/2009 (7 weeks)
Crush songs
  UK 61 09/20/2014 (1 week)
  US 44 09/27/2014 (2 weeks)
Lux Prima (with Danger Mouse )
  UK 35 March 28, 2019 (1 week)

Karen Lee Orzolek or Karen O (born November 1978 in Busan , South Korea ) is an American singer and musician.

Career

Karen O was born in South Korea, but grew up in the suburbs of New Jersey and was a member of various bands in her youth. Together with two friends, Brian Chase, whom she met during her time at Oberlin College , and Nick Zinner, whom she met while studying at New York University , she formed the band Yeah Yeah Yeahs in the summer of 2000 . She is the singer of the band.

In 2004 she moved to Los Angeles. Four years later she founded the band Native Korean Rock in Brooklyn, New York as a side project to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs .

Karen O worked on various film productions. In 2009 she wrote the soundtrack for the film Where the Wild Things Are , which reached number 35 in the US charts . Two years later, she, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross covered Led Zeppelin's Immigrant Song for the film Verblendung . For the song The Moon Song from the film Her , she was nominated at the Academy Awards 2014 together with Spike Jonze in the category Best Song , but could not win the award.

Her first solo album, Crush Songs , hit the charts in the USA, England and Belgium in 2014.

In 2015 she sang the theme song "I Shall Rise" for the computer game Rise of the Tomb Raider .

Discography

see also Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Albums

Web links

Commons : Karen O  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: UK charts US charts
  2. ↑ http://www.spin.com/articles/yeah-yeah-yeahs-stayin-alive/
  3. ↑ http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/030718/20030718_kareno.html ( Memento from March 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ http://www.spin.com/articles/yeah-yeah-yeahs-stayin-alive/
  5. ↑ http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/030718/20030718_kareno.html ( Memento from March 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ http://www.spin.com/articles/yeah-yeah-yeahs-stayin-alive/
  7. ↑ ASIAN AMERICAN MUSIC (AAST398G / AMST328L) - Native Korean Rock: Discourse and an Affirmative Label
  8. ↑ http://pitchfork.com/news/42655-trent-reznor-and-karen-o-cover-led-zeppelin/
personal data
SURNAME O, Karen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Orzolek, Karen Lee (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American singer and musician
DATE OF BIRTH November 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Busan , South Korea