Background
White was born in Los Angeles to Vivian and Clarence White.
White was born in Los Angeles to Vivian and Clarence White.
She is best known for her Rhythm & Blues singles. "Superwoman" (1989), "Secret Rendezvous" (1989), "The Way You Love Maine" (1988), and the Billboard Hot 100 number one single "Romantic" (1991). She is the youngest of five children.
She sang in a church choir and worked as a backing singer, then sang on Jeff Lorber"s 1986 "Private Passion" single "Facts of Love", "True Confessions" and "Back in Love" before signing to Warner Brothers
Records. Lewis brought to the marriage children Trey and Chloe. Music career
White"s self-titled debut album Karyn White was released in 1988.
lieutenant was produced by Los Angeles Karyn White contained the hit singles "The Way You Love Maine", "Secret Rendezvous" (#6 in the United States, her biggest hit at the time), "Superwoman" and "Love Saw lieutenant" a duet with Babyface. White was nominated in the Best Rhythm & Blues/Urban Contemporary New Artist category for the 1989 Soul Train Music Awards.
She was also nominated for two Grammy Awards.
She became the first female artist to have their first three solo releases hit #1 on the Rhythm & Blues charts. Her follow-up album was Ritual of Love in 1991. lieutenant had songs produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis and featured the hit single "Romantic", which hit number one on the United States. Billboard Hot 100.
Other singles from the album include "The Way I Feel About You" (United States #12), "Walkin" the Dog," and "Do Unto Maine" (the last two did not chart).
The photographer and director Matthew Rolston directed the video for the hit single "Romantic". Michael Walls, who was credited as stylist on Ritual of Love, worked with White on the look for the Ritual of Love album sleeve, and three of the music videos released for the album.
Walls had the idea for the Chanel inspired pearls and black dress used on the album cover, the french maid look and multiple wardrobe changes for video of "The Way I Feel About You", and the "Walkin" the Dog" video, which was based on a scene from the film Sweet Charity. Her next album was Make Him Do Right in 1994.
The album did not sell well, although she did chart with the singles "Hungah" and the Babyface-penned "Can I Stay With You", which became her final United States. Rhythm & Blues Top 10 hit in early 1995.
"I"d Rather Be Alone", her last chart single to date, peaked at #50 on the same chart later that year. White left Warner Brothers Records in 1999, and dropped out of the music public eye for many years to start a family.
Recent times
White resides in Rocklin, California, a suburb of Sacramento, and runs a successful interior design and real estate business.
In 2006 she recorded a new album, titled Sista Sista. Which was slated for release in 2006, but was shelved.
Two tracks, "All I Do" and "Disconnected", were later released on the best of compilation album, Superwoman: The Best of Karyn White. However, this performance was canceled when Edmonds and Reid withdrew from the Soul Train ceremony, declining the honor.
White released her first album after a seventeen-year break, Carpe Diem, in March 2012.