Keren DeBerg is an American
singer, and
lyricist. She has performed at
Lilith Fair and is known for contributing songs to the
TV show ''
Scrubs
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''.
Early career
DeBerg left
Miami, Florida after graduating high school and began carving her sound in the
New York City nightclubs, where she built a strong and steady following. DeBerg was included in the third and final Lilith Fair, and sang with punk rock artist
Jonathan Richman
Jonathan Michael Richman (born May 16, 1951) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. In 1970, he founded the Modern Lovers, an influential proto-punk band. Since the mid-1970s, Richman has worked either solo or with low-key acoustic a ...
(''
There's Something About Mary'') on his album ''I'm So Confused''. DeBerg also wrote and was featured in an article for ''
Seventeen
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Literature
Magazines
* ''Seventeen'' (American magazine), an American magazine
* ''Seventeen'' (Japanese m ...
'' magazine depicting the realities of being a woman in the male-dominated rock scene.
DeBerg relocated to Los Angeles and had her songs featured on many TV shows. It was then that she put all her new recordings together and started her own indie label, Big Pea & A Dime Music. Tracks from that record were featured on
The WB's ''
Everwood'' and ''
Jack & Bobby'',
MTV
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's ''
Laguna Beach'' and ''
The Hills'',
NBC's ''Scrubs'' (in which she also appeared once, as a singing nurse), and others.
DeBerg made her song "Gone" (from her album of the same name) available in millions of
General Motors
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cars around the country when the song was digitally loaded into the dashboards of select GM cars as part of its digital mobile media package, powered by
Phatnoise. She followed this with appearances at
Borders Books locations and a tour of the West Coast of the United States.
DeBerg's sophomore album, the full-length ''Overwhelmed'', was released on November 11, 2008.
DeBerg's song "Get Up & Go" was chosen by
UEFA as the official song of the
Under-21 Championship games that were held in Sweden in the summer of 2009. The song was played during every match leading up to finals, where she performed the song live at the
Stadion.
Performance of "Get Up & Go"
at YouTube.
Personal life
DeBerg is married to actor Jeffrey Muller.
Discography
* ''Mended'' (2016)
* ''Overwhelmed'' (2008)
* ''Gone'' (2004)
References
External links
Official site.
Official Blog
American women singer-songwriters
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women
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