Career
Her style is a mix of soul, folk, rhythm & blues and jazz. Her debut album, Yellow Brick Road was released on October 1, 2008. lieutenant was produced and recorded in Los Angeles, California by Dutch producers Beat Royalty (Chris Kooreman and Edo Plasschaert) and mixed in Burbank, California by three-time Grammy nominee Brad Gilderman.
The first single from the album, "Do Foreign Love" was not only a hit song in the Netherlands but also became very popular in France as the theme tune of the television show Fortune.
On October 27, 2008 Starke signed with Blue Note, which re-released Yellow Brick Road. On March 9 the album went gold in the Netherlands.