If Jody Watley gets a tribute thread, so should Karyn White, who IMHO is a really underrated R&B vocalist. She quit the biz in 1995 to raise Terry Lewis' children, so all we have is her back catalogue of 3 albums. I felt she was equally adept at dance & balladry.

TRIVIA: She was handpicked by Babyface & LA Reid over the likes of Chaka and Al Jarreau when they were asked to produce for WB.

Songs I Love:

The Facts Of Love (from Jeff Lorber's Private Passion LP, for which she provided vocals; this is a duet with Michael Jeffries)
The Way You Love Me
Secret Rendezvous (such a jam...Happiness is when I, I think of you,
and we'll be gettin' together for a rendez-vous...
I'll be on time, you bring the wine,
and when we lock the door, you'll be all mine...)
Superwoman (a great slow jam tribute to the working woman who demands better from her man; could have been a Donna Summer sequel to She Works Hard For The Money)
Love On The Line
Do Unto Me
Ritual Of Love (tribal dance track)
Romantic (#1 in '91)
The Way I Feel About You (a really joyous pop song)
Hungah (a really hot joint with a great groove, tragically overlooked)
Walkin' The Dog (sexy and hilarious track about Karyn taming her man...Better keep him on a leash, teach him how to be sweet/ Why does my man wanna roam all over, burying bones on every corner?)
NOTE: The 12'' mix is fierce

I love:-
"romantic"
"the way I feel about u"
"walkin' the dog"
.....reminds me of summer 1990!

"It won't stop...it don't stop...a non-stop....Secret Rendezvous"

yes, she's one fine lady and she also had some very fine records to go with

VoicesCarry said:

The Facts of Love is not a duet...Michael Jeffries does appear on the album and may be singing background on "The Facts of Love" (I have to pull out my cd booklet to double check) but I know for a fact that this particular song features Karyn White only.

I looove this song, I have Private Passion on vinyl and CD. I even have the music video on tape from back in the day.

Facts of Love

These are the facts of love
These are the facts of love

You've heard about my reputation
You might think that I'm as cold as ice
But if you know the secret, I'm not so hard to satisfy

I'll accept no imitations
Men who play the game with foolish lies
'Cause they're a dime a dozen
I got something else in mind ohh hooo

I need more than empty conversation
Only takes me half the way

These are the facts of love
Don't waste my time with temporary passion
These are the facts of love
I need more than ordinary satisfaction

I don't want another half-way lover
I've played the game so many times before
I opened up my heart and love goes walking out my door oooo

I need more than empty conversation
Only takes me half the way

These are the facts of love
Don't waste my time with temporary passion
These are the facts of love
I need more than ordinary satisfaction ooo hoo hoo

These are the facts of love
Ohh don't waste my time come on baby
I need more than temporary passion (these are the facts of love)
I've played the game so many times before ooo

I need more than empty conversation
Only takes me half the way

More than temporary passion
I need more than imitation love

These are the facts of love
No imitation love
These are the facts of love
I need more I need more than just a half-way love
These are the facts of love
Everytime I open up my heart love walks out on me
These are the facts of love.....

Don't forget she married Terry Lewis! Damn he's lucky!!! R they still together?

Where in the hell is Karyn White these days??? Following are some of my favorite songs:

Can I Stay With You?

Romantic

The Way You Love Me (I wore this record out - I still love this song)

Love Saw It

Secret Rendezvous

Superwoman

Slow Down

I don't think Karen and Terry are still together. I know they had a daughter together, probably in her teens by now!

Slow Down was one of my favorite cuts
Other favs are...Romantic, Way You Love Me (the dude in her video was hot!), Facts of Love, The Way I Feel About You

She also did some background on a Alexander O'Neil and Johnny Gil (My, My, My, album) cut.

thesexofit said:

Divorced years ago...they had a daughter while married. Jam and Lewis were on some award show a few years back receiving an honor, he thanked his wife by name and they put the camera on her in the audience and it wasn't Karyn.

cnutty77 said:

She also sang back-up on "Quiet Time To Play" by Johnny Gill off of the "Provacative" album(you can hear her voice really well on this track).

aikam said:

Karyn White's duet with Michael Jeffries is "Not Thru Being With You". The 12" version is really good.

Man, someone still has Johnny's "provocative" album? "the floor" had a great video and was proberly one of the last in the Newjack cannon really, I love that song!.....

(chant) "shes a bedrocker!"

"lets just run away" (also off "mo money soundtrack) is my other fav off album!

Didn't she sing at some celebritys wedding not that long ago? Maybe Vivica Fox.

aikam said:

Yeah, here is Terry's new wife. I wish I could blow up the pic, but unfortunately, I can't. Sorry.

I like the 12 Inch version of "The Way You Love Me" but I'm sorry, I think "Superwoman" is one of the WORST songs of the 1980s. That song not only bored me to tears but it was played to DEATH. Every damned time you turned on the radio it was on and women were always requesting it even more. To this day, the oldies stations still wear that damned song out.
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Neva liked her Karyn's music that much. Was supriced to see her opening for EW&F too.

i absoulutely love "the way you love me"! that song is classic.

sextonseven said:

Yup, I hadn't listened to the song in awhile. I mixed up "Facts Of Love" with "Not Thru Being With You", which is also great.

vainandy said:

OH MY GOD, BECKY!! Do you remember when Dionne, Patti and Gladys covered this song? and performed in on Oprah..I still have that on VHS.....Patti doing her one-eye popeye screaming, dionne looked afraid of Patti and Gladys just playing it cool.....until the end when each of them tried to outsing each other....oye!! talk about scary.....and the whole time Oprah pumped her arms up and down..up and down..up and down....Oprah felt she was the ultimate "SUPERWOMAN!!"....

I hated their version as it was...The whole Oprah thing adds a whole other scary element. I could just imagine her waiving her hands like the song was written for her.

I don't like it when some artists decide to cover songs because they feel they can sing better than the original artist. In my opinion, thats what these three women did but, sometimes you just don't need all of the vocal acrobatics and theatrics. Sometimes all a song needs is an artist who can make us feel the emotion of the song and thats it and you don't always need a 10 octive voice to do that. Kayrn Whites version was much better to me. I love Patti, Dione, and Gladys but they messed up a good song.

VoicesCarry said:

It's a shame she retired and that she never released a greatest hits set.

And didnt she TAKE terry from his first wife and he divorced her to marry Karyn that was the gossip i heard around that time