Karen Gibson Roc

Karen Gibson Roc is a performance poet and vocalist born in Jamaica Sept 16, 1965 and is the sister of choreographer/director Laurie Ann Gibson. Roc has been in a VH1Soul television commercial and has worked with the Kaiser Foundation for their AIDS awareness radio campaign "Know HIV".
From 2003 to 2009 there have been 4 CD'S and 1 EP released by Roc in The United States, Germany and Japan. Her music has been included in international compilation CDs, most importantly Sony BMG Music Entertainment(Germany) and EMI Music (Germany). She was awarded a grant from the Canadian Council For The Arts in 2005 for Dub Rap Poetry and performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Opera House for Def Poetry Plugged In alongside Sonia Sanchez, Ursula Rucker and Vernon Reid later that year. In 2006 Roc also headlined with her band at The Whitney Museum in NYC. She performed for Macys (Glamorama) in 2004 alongside Patti Labelle and the Commodores and again in 2010 in conjunction with the Elizabeth Taylor Aids Foundation.
Discography
*5&2fish 2003
*Live At The Whitney Museum 2006
*Traveling With Light CD/DVD 2007 Funded by the Canadian Council For The Arts
*Touching The Soul 2008 Lemongrassmusic (Germany) Re released 2010 R2Lounge (Japan)
*The Painted Room Remix EP 2009 Lemongrassmusic (Germany)

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