Karen Elisabeth Jacobsen is an Australian born and New York based entertainer, singer, motivational speaker, voiceover artist and songwriter.
18 Facts About Karen Jacobsen
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Karen Jacobsen performed regularly on Australian television including Good Morning Australia and I Do I Do and her speaking and singing voices have been used on thousands of commercials for television, radio and online and in a billion+ devices.
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Karen Jacobsen's songs have been on soundtracks for Dawson's Creek and the NBC show Passions and she has shared the stage with Christopher Cross, Neil Sedaka, Norah Jones, Cyndi Lauper, Spyro Gyra, Deborah Cox and Rachael Sage.
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Karen Jacobsen has written or recorded with Grammy Award winner Andy Zulla, Tony Award winner David Zippel, ARIA Award winner Sean O'Boyle, Emmy Award nominee Amy Powers and Grammy Award nominee Nicole Zuraitis.
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In 2002, Karen Jacobsen's speaking voice was chosen as one of the Australian English options for the text-to-speech system used in GPS units for Garmin, Navman, TomTom and Mio and in telephone and computer software systems.
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Karen Jacobsen has been dubbed by ABC News and CBS News as 'The Dashboard Diva' and by the Gold Coast Bulletin as 'Gadget Girl'.
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Karen Jacobsen created the empowerment brand 'The GPS Girl' and in speaking engagements and performances shares the five directions for Recalculating, how to 'Recalculate' in Business and Life and 'The GPS Girl's Top Ten Directions for Life' and filmed the pilot of television show, 'Travel the World with The GPS Girl'.
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From 2011 to 2014, Karen Jacobsen's voice was used as the original female Australian voice of the Siri application on Apple iPhones, iPods and iPads.
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Karen Jacobsen was President of the New York Chapter of the National Speakers Association and performed on the main stage of the national conference singing The Star Spangled Banner and for the NSA Youth Convention in San Diego.
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Karen Jacobsen served on the board of directors of the National Speakers Association, as Secretary.
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Karen Jacobsen has appeared as Keynote Speaker and Concert Performer at the Global Speakers Summit in Vancouver in 2013, the World Meetings Forum in Cancun, the World Contact Forum in Mexico City, the Australian Asphalt Pavement Association conference Gold Coast, Australian National Association of Teachers of Singing conference Tasmania and at TEDxTraverseCity.
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Karen Jacobsen was the closing keynote speaker at Project Management Institute's Symposium in Singapore, and on corporate day at the Global Speakers Summit in Auckland, NZ.
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Karen Jacobsen has performed her one woman show at the piano at off Broadway theatres Stage 72 at The Triad, The Laurie Beechman Theatre and Joe's Pub at The Public Theatre, The Duplex and The Bitter End.
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On Christmas Eve 2015, Karen Jacobsen performed Hark the Herald Angels Sing on the live telecast of the Vision Australia Carols by Candlelight at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne, Australia.
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Karen Jacobsen performed Advance Australia Fair at the State of Origin Rugby League game on 22 June 2016 for a capacity crowd of 52,000 at Suncorp Stadium Lang Park in Queensland.
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Karen Jacobsen served as High Point University's Global Artist in Residence, working with and mentoring students.
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In 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Karen Jacobsen left her New York home of 20 years for Queensland, Australia, subsequently arriving in Airlie Beach in the Whitsundays, Queensland.
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Karen Jacobsen started a group called To Zambia With Love to support the work of Children International and encouraged others to sponsor children.