Karolina

Karolina is a given name for females, it can refer to:

People

Fictional characters

Places

Karolina (singer)

Keren Karolina Avratz, professionally known as Karolina, is a singer/songwriter from Eilat, Israel. She is the lead singer of the trio Habanot Nechama.

Biography

Keren (Karolina) Avratz was born in Jaffa and raised in Eilat. Given the nickname "Karolina" by her grandmother, Karolina's musical influences came primarily from within her household, as well as from attending the Red Sea Jazz Festival. She listened to Greek, Arabic, Turkish and other music on a daily basis. Her brother, Joseph Avratz, introduced her to soul, jazz and new wave music, and she collaborated with another brother, Shlomi Avratz, in his project Madbooja. After a few lessons in classical guitar at the age of fifteen, she studied on her own.

Music career

At the beginning of her recording career, in 1999 Karolina recorded a track with Spoiled and Zigo under her given name "Keren." Later creating "MC Karolina" a concept project that initially focused on a solo sound system shows for the club scene. This project led to multiple recordings with various artists.

Karolina (painter)

Carol Wells (Boston, 1939), or KAROLINA, or ΚΑΡΟΛΙΝΑ as is the signature of her paintings, is a naif painter of Mykonos. She was born in the US and since 23 years old she lives in Mykonos, painting sights of Mykonos and selling her works to tourists.

She was born at 25 December 1939 in Boston and studied in the Boston School of Fine Arts. In 1962 she visited Mykonos and she lives there since, selling her paintings to tourists and locals.

Karolina is characterized as "legendary", "prominent citizen" of Mykonos, queen of the art scene of Mykonos, the famous painter of Mykonos, "the significant painter of the island" and as a "real image of the island" who "is giving colour to Matogiannia and the harbour".

Her work is referred to as the preferred one of the locals, for decades, as well as that it has international appeal, that it captures in a magical way the simplicity of Greek life, with naif style, which is recognizable.

The life of Karolina has been presented in Greek television and she was an inspiration for a short story by Peter Selgin και για ποίημα του Νέιλ Μέιλι.