This fabulous jazz vocalist has released  four albums including her last, Beautiful Love, which explored the Great American Songbook. Her arrangements are uncluttered and breathe new life into even the most familiar of material. Musically Lane's arrangements, often driven by groove or counterpoint within the rhythm section, reflect her soulful heritage while her undulating and evocative vocals blend traditional resonance and phrasing with decidedly modern inflections.

Karen developed an early interest in jazz and formed The Eclectics, a jazz “lounge” trio. Gigging regularly in Sydney and touring the North East coast of Australia. There’s nothing like learning on the job and touring was a fantastic opportunity to hone her skills as a jazz and soul singer and she was thrilled to be invited back home to Perth as featured vocalist at the York Jazz Festival in 1993. In 1994 Karen was lucky enough to support the UK jazz legend pianist composer Julian Joseph at Sydney’s premier jazz club The Basement.

There were various other bands along the way but Karen's inner feminist got tired of being classified “Token chick singer” in those bands, so she was spurred on to take timeout to write enough material and form her own original band “Deluge”. Between 1993 and 1997 she developed as a songwriter and bandleader playing purely her own original songs in Sydney venues such as The Harbourside Brasserie and Kinselas. There was a thriving scene of acid jazz, funk and hiphop at this time in Sydney. Karen also wrote and produced music for the NIDA dance production “Appetite” featured at the 1994 Melbourne International Arts Festival. Her second original jazz funk band called Substance, debuted (whilst sipping Baccardi cocktails) at the prestigious Bacardi Club during the Sydney International Arts Festival in1995 and featured at the International Women’s Day Festival in the Domain in 1998.

Since moving to London Karen has focused on singing Jazz and had the pleasure of playing with some of London’s finest musicians including Tom Cawley, Andy Hamill, Nic France, Robin Fincker, Julian Ferraretto, Dave Colton, Robin Aspland and more. She has recorded four albums “Once in a Lifetime” (2002), “Taste” – a bossa nova tribute (2004), “Can’t Help It” (2006) and “Beautiful Love” (2009) all of which have been really well received. She's played at some great clubs Pizza Express Dean Street, Pizza on the Park, The Stables Theatre, and gigs Corsham Arts Festival, Southport International Jazz Festival and Soho Jazz Festival. Karen has also had some great radio airplay on Michael Parkinson’s Radio 2 Sunday Supplement, BBC London and Jazz Fm. Karen is the host a jazz radio show on BBC Radio Kent (alternating with Trudy Kerr).

Karen continues to write songs, teach singing, lead a gospel choir and is currently studying jazz piano.