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Karen Kanan Corrêa is a songwriter, singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. Her work challenges traditional forms and sounds across genres and has been called “edgy, experimental pop” (Higher Plain Music) and “publicly poppy but secretly proggy” (Time Out New York). 

She led the “dizzyingly addictive” (CMJ New Music Monthly) indie rock trio Demander through several albums and EPs and extensive touring in the US and Europe with the likes of The Hold Steady, Art Brut, and New Model Army. Her solo project, Futurebrite, combined live performance and electronics with dancehall sensibility over the course of two EPs and was hailed as one of NYC’s “best emerging electronic bands” (Deli Magazine). These projects led to song placements with HBO, MTV, FX, Oracle, and IFC, and ad campaigns with Levi’s UK and Marella. 

As a bassist and singer she has toured with Vampire Weekend drummer (and Grammy Award winner) Chris Tomson for his Dams of the West solo effort, Swedish Grammi Award-winning artist Moneybrother, beloved cult heroes World/Inferno Friendship Society, and New York darlings The Hissyfits. Guitar World’s Bass Guitar Magazine dubbed her a “powerful, efficient fingerstylist” playing with “bombast and articulation.”

She has been a composer-in-residence and the Edward T. Cone Fellow at Millay Arts in New York, a songwriter at the prestigious ASCAP Lester Sill Songwriting Workshop in Los Angeles, and part of the composer/performer collective Anti-Social Music. She composed the score and featured as a performer in Triplicate: Three Works, an original musical theater production in collaboration with playwright and director Neal Wilkinson and she composed the theme music for the SiriusXM Women Of Marvel podcast.

She is currently working on a set of self-produced songs focusing on femininity, invisibility and the middle ages.