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Article: Karen Akers,Moving up the Scale;The Singer, Branching Out Into The World Beyond the Cabaret
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- The Washington Post
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- October 3, 1987
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Ever since people found that chanteuse Karen Akers knows her way
around a good song, the Washington resident has had to do a little
additional navigating. The company she keeps is pretty
good-Gershwin, Sondheim, Coward, Bernstein, Brel-but since Akers must
always be on the lookout for new songs, some well-intentioned folk
envision themselves as tune scouts.
"Some of them are right and some of them aren't," Akers says
diplomatically of the songs that are sent her way. "A lot of people
think that if they've written something that's heart-rending and
emotional I'm going to fall head over heels in love with it.
"But it's not quite that simple," she adds. "It's such a
personal thing, ...