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Artist
Karina Kappel was born on 13th September 1984 at Hillerød University Hospital north of Copenhagen. Her father being a diplomat she spent some years of her childhood in Bulgaria during his posting to Sofia. In 1990 Karina thus started school at the Anglo-American School of Sofia, where all teaching was done in English. She thus spoke more English than Danish when a couple of years later she returned to Denmark to continue her education here. After primary and secondary school she started heading for her General Certificate of Education, matriculating from Ordrup Gymnasium (Grammar School/Senior School) in 2003. As early as the age of 6 she started receiving piano training. And the year after she had started school she participated in an international singers’ talent contest in Bulgaria, scoring a nice number three in her group by singing “Twinkle, twinkle, little star…” and the Danish children’s song “Lille sky gik morgentur…” (“The little cloud who went out for a morning stroll…)”.When she was about six she started writing her first tunes, around the age of 10 going on to compose and produce small musicals, involving her friends as singers and actors. In 1999, before entering Grammar School, she got into contact with Hans Nielsen, the director and owner of Focus Recording, sending him some demo-tapes. It was the response she had from Hans which seriously got her ambitions moving in the direction of a career in music. After matriculation she therefore entered the Rhy