Kara Klein

Kara was born on Christmas Eve in 1985.  She has three brothers and three sisters, and is currently living in the Los Angeles area

Kara graduated with high honors from high school in 2004, and she completed her freshman year at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., where she made the Dean’s List while majoring in philosophy.  She is also continuing her studies with the Western Governor’s University and in 2008 is scheduled to receive an undergraduate degree in Education. 

Kara began writing songs when she was eight, and that interest was directed to Christian music when she won a contest to write and perform the theme song for the Abbey Youth Festival in Covington, Louisiana at age 13.
 
A prolific songwriter, Kara has written over 200 original Christian hymns, 10 of which are featured on her debut album A Touch of Your Grace, released August 20, 2004. 
In March, 2005, Kara released “Beautiful Still—Terri’s Song”, a single dedicated to Terri Schindler-Schiavo and her family.  The song was featured on worldwide television on EWTN’s Life on the Rock the night of Terri’s death.  In November 2005 Kara sang at the annual UCMVA Unity Awards in Minneapolis and has performed the song in many venues throughout the nation since then.  On October 2, 2007, Kara sang Beautiful Still at the annual National Right to Life Convention in Washington DC, where the Schindler family were honored for their work promoting the pro-life cause.

Unity Awards Winner - Best Video/DVD of the Year, and Best Video/DVD Packaging of the Year.

In 2007, Kara appeared as a featured artist on EWTN’s Backstage series.  Kara recently completed filming eight episodes of EWTN’s The Knights of St. Michael television series, which will air in 2008.

Kara released “I Am Home” in late October 2006. The CD’s title song, dedicated to Katrina victims living in the New Orleans area, won a Unity at the 2007 Annual UCMVA Awards ceremonies for “Best Pop/Contemporary Song of the Year” and the video version won a Unity Award for the “Best Video/DVD of the Year”.

In November, 2007, Kara released two additional albums: “The Gift of Christmas” and a devotional CD entitled “Enduring Love – A Rosary for Chastity”. The CD “The Gift of Christmas” received a 2007 Unity Awards for “Seasonal Album of the Year”.  Kara sang selected songs from her Christmas CD on December 23, 2007 at “Merry Christmas New York City”, a Christmas benefit concert at Carnegie Hall alongside internationally renowned Irish tenor Mark Forrest and other noted Catholic artists.

Kara’s other experiences have included traveling to Cologne, Germany in 2005 for World Youth Day with Pope Benedict XVI, where she performed as a featured singer.  During her time in Europe she filmed two music videos in Rome.  She has also traveled nationally and internationally on music missions, where she has sung and spoken in various churches, schools, prisons and drug-rehab centers.   On April 27, 2005, Kara was a featured speaker at the Susan B. Anthony List’s Real Women’s Voices press conference in Washington, D.C., where she sang Beautiful Still and spoke about bringing an end to abortion.

Additionally, Kara has traveled throughout the United States giving chastity talks, most recently giving a concert and speaking to the youth at Catholic Familyland’s Family Conference in September, 2007.  

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