Karen Gallinger ~ Vocalist/Educator/Author
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Fan Art

Over the years I've been blessed to have  people be moved enough by my work to create something in their own medium. What a gift, I am very  grateful! I'd like to share a few of them with you :  

Portrait
by
Roberta Tucker ( painted from a B&W promo picture)

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Poem

by the Reverend Bill Peterson from his 2003 book “Jazz For The Human Spirit”

included in the liner notes of Kinda Blues

 Karen

The people show your singing in their faces,

Eyes recognizing memory pierced by range

and note

and word

and image,

Subtle smiles of feeling found within.

Even the white people move shoulder and hip with the scat riffs,

Almost affirmating beyond who they think they are

“o yeah.”

Your subversive style flushes out the soul of their deep humanness,

Like when you sing about love that goes bad and then gets

really good again,

and what it costs to love,

and what it takes to love,

and how it is to love,

and what can come from loving.

A rainbow coloring the atmosphere between lonely listening souls,

Touching through the downpour of troubles that life can be,

Knowing that someone else knows, too

Because the songs say so.

So testify, sister!

Remind them!

Call them!

Bless them!

With the gift of a lady

Singing Jazz.

O Yeah

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Portrait

by

Michael J. Meler  Colored Pencil on Black Paper