Karima Francis
June 24th, 2008 by sparky
Karima Francis will perform at The Big Chill festival 2008 A-Z line up | Ticket info
Karima Francis – Biography
Since relocating to Manchester from Blackpool in late 2005, 19 year old Karima Francis has risen to become one of the most talked about artists in Manchester. Listening to her perform either alone or with her band bears witness to an honesty, intensity and power evoked via the simplest of orchestration. Most distinctive of Karima is her voice, the kind that cuts through a room to hush a chattering crown in seconds. Her soulfully expressive, unique vocal style is utterly bewitching, her unexpected vocal flights hardly prepare you for the intimacy and empathy to follow, couple this with a clutch of sensational songs and you would find it almost impossible to believe that she has been writing and performing for barely 12 months.
A constant stream of local and national gigs has already earned Karima a remarkable degree of popularity with a recent support slot with rising star James Morrison and Newton Faulkner winning over a full house of virgin ears. Attempts at comparisons of Karimas’ sound and style have sparked a number of heated debates, with names such as Van Morrison, Jeff Buckley, Tracey Chapman and Joan Armatrading all being thrown into the mix, suffice to say that in an industry obsessed with ‘convenience pigeon-holing’ Karima Francis’s refreshing sound never for a moment sounds derivative. Her debut album is currently being recorded with Producers Bacon & Quarmby and will be released Autumn 2008 on Kitchenware Records.
Karima Francis will perform at The Big Chill festival 2008 A-Z line up | Ticket info
