Karen Alexander

She was born in Los Angeles, California, and grew up in one of the suburbs of Hollywood, her father had a psychoanalytic practice in Beverly Hills. In 1965, she married Esfandiar Bahrampour, an Iranian architect and moved to Tehran. While Karen was living in Tehran she travelled back to the U.S., now and then. On one of these trips she bought a guitar and started writing songs, as a first step in her singing career she started to sing in clubs.