Her dulcet tones are familiar to millions, though likely none of them know her name–in fact, they’d like have difficulty placing it during casual conversation. Her name, for the record, is Karen Jacobsen. She’s an Australian who has been living in the US since 2000. She is the voice of Garmin GPS’s turn-by-turn directions. Oh, and she wants to be a famous singer.
Jacobsen describes her musical stylings as a cross between Billy Joel and Celine Dion. New Yorkers will be able to see her in action next week, when she opens at the Laurie Beechman Theatre, a cabaret on 42nd st. in Manhattan.
Jacobsen is living her dream, kind of, sort. “As a little girl, I dreamed of hearing my voice in the car radio,” Jacobsen told The New York Daily News. “I never dreamed that my voice would end up in cars, but in a GPS.”
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