Steve & Karen Multer, vocalists

Steve & Karen Multer are lifetime signers, performers, and members of Actors Equity Association with extensive credits in coast-to-coast stage productions.  Veterans of the Chicago and regional markets, they’ve played a wide variety of leading and featured roles in many of the best-loved musicals over a combined 45 years in the industry, receiving numerous nominations and awards in their acting and singing careers.  Befitting this evening’s performance, they even met singing opposite one another in Phantom of the Opera at Chicago’s Drury Lane in 1993!

With a variety of CD and commercial credits, they’ve shared a stage or microphone with some of the top names in the vocal industry including Ella Fitzgerald, The Nylons, Laurel Masse, John Hendricks, Colin Raye, Kathryn Grayson, and Gene Puerling.

Karen & Steve own SKM Creative Publishing (www.skmcreative.com) which represents and licenses their original, award-winning music, some of which will be featured during tonight’s performance.  Two-time winners in the Billboard World Song Contest, three-time honorees in the Great American Song Contest, and five-time recipients of the ASCAPlus Award for Songwriting, Multer & Multer songs in the Jazz, Lounge, Country and Broadway/Cabaret genres have been featured in a variety of feature film and television projects since 2005.  Most recently their songs have been heard on Entourage (HBO), Legally Blondes (MGM), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (CBS), Osso Bucco (Riverwest Films), Have a Nice Death (5-0 Productions), and three new Sony/BMG CD compilations; The First Swing Boulevard, In Love With Jazz, and a yet-to-be named Holiday 4-CD set released during Christmas 2008.

Steve & Karen’s band, TONIC Vintage Vocals, performs nationally and internationally as a headline act and enjoys current airplay in over 150 jazz radio markets worldwide.  The group has written, recorded, and produced two full Neo-Standards albums that were widely praised in the jazz industry’s top publications and featured on several syndicated jazz programs. Julio Martinez of Variety said, "TONIC’s (premiere) CD deserves consideration for a vocal jazz Grammy nomination!"   The group creates new Songbook standards to carry on the tradition of the American popular jazz genre. (www.tonicvocals.com)