ChuckFAZIOENTERTAINMENT
ChuckFAZIOENTERTAINMENT
 
Karen Briggs is an amazing violinist! She is most famous for her work with Yanni on the multi-platinum-selling video/CD presentation and PBS television special of both “Yanni Live: At the Acropolis” in Athens, Greece, and “Tribute” performed and televised at the Taj Mahal, Agra, India and in the Forbidden City, China. She most recently headlined a performance at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. She has also been called upon to record and /or to perform as a featured soloist with such other notable artists and producers and Diano Ross and Arif Mardin, Stanley Clarke, the Wu Tang Clan, Soul II Soul, En Vogue, Chaka Khan and Juan Sebastian, among others. Briggs’ influences are unique . . . especially for a violinist. Her sound combines the rip and rock of Jimi Hendrix, the rich soulfulness of Aretha Franklin, the bop and swing phrasing of Charlie Parker, embellished with Latin rhythm, but delivered with respectable classical technique. Karen Briggs was born in Manhattan, New York to a family with a long-standing tradition of musical interest and involvement. Her natural acumen on the violin surfaced with her first lessons at the age of twelve. Since that time, she has evolved into a master violinist of gospel, jazz, classical, pop, Latin and New Age musical idioms. This diversity has allowed her to develop an unmistakably identifiable and contemporary style that continues to comprise itself of all of her musical encounters.
Karen Briggs
HIGHLIGHTS
• ‘Lady in the Red Dress” on Yani’s ‘Live at the Acropolis.”
 
• On tour with Benise
 
 
 
STRENGTHS
• World-renown violinist.
 
• Multi-genre
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