Biography

Karling Abbeygate was recently honored at the 16th Annual Los Angeles Music Awards, winning Rockabilly Album of the Year, Artist of the Year, and Female Vocalist of the Year. Abbeygate is an enigma. One might assume that she hails from Texas or Memphis, since her "twang" is tweaked to perfection. But this is not the case. She's from Norwich, a small town in the English countryside. Yet how can this be? Her voice drips with authenticity as she bleeds out the ballads, and chirps away at those hillbilly up-tempos.

The answer is in her childhood. Karling's father, a military man hailing from Coffeyville Kansas, met her Mother while based in Norfolk, England. Both avid old-style country fans, they fed their daughter a consistent diet of Jim Reeves, Patsy Cline, Tammy Wynette and Loretta Lynn from the day that she was born. And we thank them graciously, because Karling's soul has been seeped with more feeling and honesty than this writer can easily handle.

Can Karling Abbeygate sing? Boy, can she ever. Her voice has been likened to Wanda Jackson, Patsy Cline, and many other great female singers of the era.

Karling Abbeygate’s self-titled debut country album is full of heartbreak and hope. And Country music itself has found a new hope in this talented singer/songwriter who has bravely brought back to us the essence of an era long gone. A time when Patsy ruled the airwaves and a beautiful ballad really did help mend your broken heart. Yet, one is always subtly aware that this soulful artist is living her life today, with us, and not in the past. As legend Frankie Laine (Rawhide, High Noon) put it,

“Karling Abbeyate has taken the classic old-time Country Western sound and blended it with today’s sensibilities, and in the process created something quite new and utterly stunning.”