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Karl Wolf (real name Karl Abou Samah)^[1] is a Lebanon-born, United Arab Emirates-raised, Canadian musician based in Montreal, Quebec. He is a singer, songwriter and producer, skills that he displayed in his album release Face Behind The Face on MapleNationwide/Universal in January 2006.

Earlier Years

Karl Wolf has been writing and co-producing since 2001. The 2001 hit album from Gabrielle Destroismaisons generated two singles co-written by him that reached No. 1 on the BDS Francophone Charts, and the disc earned him a Felix at the L'ADISQ Awards for "Best Mix and Sound of the Year."

His work with Gabrielle Destroismaisons brought Karl Wolf to the attention of Antoine Sicotte, of the top-selling Canadian pop band Sky, where he was recruited as a singer-songwriter becoming Sky's new lead singer in 2002. ^[2]. Wolf co-wrote and co-produced the third Sky album, Picture Perfect (on Sextant/EMI), with strong airplay across Canada. Sicotte and Wolf cooperated on the hugely successful Star Académie reality TV show in Quebec. The subsequent album was the biggest-selling album in Canada in 2003, notching a phenomenal sales in Canadian terms and earning Karl Wolf a SOCAN Award for Most Popular Song. A Star Académie II sequel in 2004 was another big success, the album going double-platinum.

LW Entertainment / LW Records

LW Records and Lone Wolf Entertainment (with LW standing for Lone Wolf) are the producing wing of Karl Wolf's operations. (contact e-mail [email protected] ). In fact, before becoming a successful solo artist, Karl Wolf got his break initially as a music songwriter / producer, making himself one of the youngest songwriter / producers in Canada. At the young age of 22, he became the winner of "Best Mix and Sound of the Year" at L'ADISQ (Quebec Grammy's), for producing multi award winning Gabrielle Destroismaisons. Also he was the recipient of the SOCAN Award for co-writing "The most popular song" of 2004 on 'Star Académie'.

Karl Wolf has also produced and/or composed for Quebec sensation Mitsou, for Emily, a Quebec, Canada pop / R&B act, had a stint as vocalist with the rap group Dubmatique and produced as well the solo album of Jerome-Philippe (aka Disoul from Dubmatique). More recently he cooperated with Indian successful artist Sukhbir, and with popular Quebec MC / MusiquePlus VJ Malik Shaheed on the latter's album. He is featured in the latter's bilimgual French/English song release "Get Down / Respire".^[3]

Karl Wolf is also featured in the song "Africa" with Culture, in "Hollow Girl"^[4] with Canadian rapper Striger and in "Weekend"^[5] with Canadian rapper Choclair. He has also released in Quebec a bilingual (English / French) remake of his all-English lyrics succesful hit "Butterflies" with the Quebec singer Eve

Album Face Behind The Face

He released his debut solo album Face Behind the Face"^[6] in January 2006. Since its release, the album broke in the Canadian Top 100 sales chart and spawned three hit singles, "Butterflies"^[7] and "Desensitize"^[8], with the latter track (featuring hip hop star Choclair) reaching the BDS Top 40 charts and "Referee".

Face Behind The Face was also licensed internationally, and has made Karl Wolf an instant star in the Middle East. "'Butterflies' with an oriental theme was at No. 1 for eight consecutive weeks on the radio there. Through his own family's Lebanese origin, he knew the consequences of war and violence, as his family was forced to leave their native Lebanon for Canada when Karl was just three. His track "Summer Days (In Beirut)"^[9] had a positive impact there in very difficult times. He has achieved success in the United Arab Emirates as well. He was confirmed to open for Jennifer Lopez on her Dubai gig^[10]. However the event was not to be as she decided to cancel that leg of the tour. However Karl Wolf just weeks later opened for Mary J. Blige.^[11].

The album, Face Behind the Face garnered a nomination for a Juno Award for the R&B/Soul Recording of the Year in 2007. Wolf was also nominated for four Sounds of Blackness Awards.^[12]

Album Tracks

Intro
Life on a Break
Face Behind the Face
Desensitize
Hollow Girl
Bootyful
Referee
Princess
Butterflies
Cuz I Luv U
Just a Moment Away
Summer Days (in Beirut)
Radio
Life
Desensitize (club mix) Choclair / Karl Wolf

Singles

Butterflies
Desensitize
Referee

References

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[1] ttp://www.todaysoutlook.com/lebanese/thisissue/index.htm

[2] ttp://www.muchmusic.com/music/artists/bio.asp?artist=679

[3] ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1SQwkoMt9c

[4] ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcZ397xArsY

[5] ttp://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=1296779561

[6] ttp://www.maplemusic.com/artists/krl/bio.asp

[7] ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVLkLqG9UMI

[8] ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6gmj4nS7iI

[9] ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oICR2m435U

[10] ttp://www.jlo.net/forums/showthread.php?t=5612

[11] ttp://archive.gulfnews.com/tabloid/Entertainment/10045109.html

[Hour-12] Burnett, Richard (2007-04-12). "Sounds of Blackness Awards". Hour. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

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-'''Karl Wolf''' (real name Karl Abou Samah) is a [[Lebanon]]-born, [[United Arab Emirates]]-raised, [[Canada|Canadian]] musician based in [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]]. He is a singer, songwriter and producer, skills that he displayed in his album release ''Face Behind The Face'' on MapleNationwide/Universal in January 2006.
+'''Karl Wolf''' (real name Karl Abou Samah)<ref>http://www.todaysoutlook.com/lebanese/thisissue/index.htm</ref> is a [[Lebanon]]-born, [[United Arab Emirates]]-raised, [[Canada|Canadian]] musician based in [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]]. He is a singer, songwriter and producer, skills that he displayed in his album release ''Face Behind The Face'' on MapleNationwide/Universal in January 2006.
 ==Earlier Years==
-Karl Wolf has been writing and co-producing since 2001.  The 2001 hit album from [[Gabrielle Destroismaisons]] generated two singles co-written by him that reached No. 1 on the BDS Francophone Charts, and the disc earned him a Felix at the L'ADISQ Awards for "Best Mix and Sound of the Year."
+Karl Wolf has been writing and co-producing since 2001.  The 2001 hit album from [[Gabrielle Destroismaisons]] generated two singles co-written by him that reached No. 1 on the BDS Francophone Charts, and the disc earned him a Felix at the L'[[ADISQ]] Awards for "Best Mix and Sound of the Year."
-His work with Gabrielle Destroismaisons brought Karl Wolf to the attention of Antoine Sicotte, of the top-selling Canadian pop band [[Sky]], where he was recruited as a [[singer-songwriter]] becoming Sky's new lead singer in 2002. Wolf co-wrote and co-produced the third Sky album, ''Picture Perfect'' (on Sextant/EMI), one that registered strong airplay across Canada. Sicotte and Wolf cooperated on the hugely successful Star Academie reality TV show in Quebec. The subsequent album was the biggest-selling album in Canada in 2003, notching a phenomenal sales in Canadian terms and earning Wolf a SOCAN Award for Most Popular Song. A Star Academie 11 sequel in 2004 was another big success, going double-platinum.
+His work with Gabrielle Destroismaisons brought Karl Wolf to the attention of [[Antoine Sicotte]], of the top-selling Canadian pop band [[Sky]], where he was recruited as a [[singer-songwriter]] becoming Sky's new lead singer in 2002. <ref>http://www.muchmusic.com/music/artists/bio.asp?artist=679</ref>. Wolf co-wrote and co-produced the third [[Sky]] album, ''Picture Perfect'' (on Sextant/EMI), with strong airplay across Canada. Sicotte and Wolf cooperated on the hugely successful [[Star Académie]] reality TV show in [[Quebec]]. The subsequent album was the biggest-selling album in Canada in 2003, notching a phenomenal sales in Canadian terms and earning Karl Wolf a [[SOCAN]] Award for Most Popular Song. A Star Académie II sequel in 2004 was another big success, the album going double-platinum.
+==LW Entertainment / LW Records==
-Karl Wolf also produced and composed for Emily, Mitsou and Jerome-Philippe, and had a stint as vocalist with the rap group [[Dubmatique]]. He was featured in the song "Africa" with Culture and in "Hollow Girl"
+LW Records and Lone Wolf Entertainment (with LW standing for Lone Wolf) are the producing wing of Karl Wolf's operations. (contact e-mail [email protected] ). In fact, before becoming a successful solo artist, Karl Wolf got his break initially as a music songwriter / producer, making himself one of the youngest songwriter / producers in Canada. At the young age of 22, he became the winner of "Best Mix and Sound of the Year" at L'ADISQ (Quebec Grammy's), for producing multi award winning Gabrielle Destroismaisons. Also he was the recipient of the SOCAN Award for co-writing "The most popular song" of 2004 on 'Star Académie'.
+Karl Wolf has also produced and/or composed for Quebec sensation [[Mitsou]], for [[Emily]], a Quebec, Canada pop / R&B act, had a stint as vocalist with the rap group [[Dubmatique]] and produced as well the solo album of [[Jerome-Philippe]] (aka [[Disoul]] from [[Dubmatique]]). More recently he cooperated with Indian successful artist Sukhbir, and with popular Quebec MC / [[MusiquePlus]] VJ [[Malik Shaheed]] on the latter's album. He is featured in the latter's bilimgual French/English song release "Get Down / Respire".<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1SQwkoMt9c</ref>
+Karl Wolf is also featured in the song "Africa" with [[Culture]], in "Hollow Girl"<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcZ397xArsY</ref> with Canadian rapper [[Striger]] and in "Weekend"<ref>http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=1296779561</ref> with Canadian rapper [[Choclair]].  He has also released in Quebec a bilingual (English / French) remake of his all-English lyrics succesful hit "Butterflies" with the Quebec singer [[Eve]]
 ==Album ''Face Behind The Face''==
-He released his debut solo album in January 2006. Since its release, the album broke in the Canadian Top 100 sales chart and spawned three hit singles, "Butterflies" and "Desensitize", with the latter track (featuring hip hop star [[Choclair]]) reaching the BDS Top 40 charts and "Referee".
+He released his debut solo album ''Face Behind the Face"<ref>http://www.maplemusic.com/artists/krl/bio.asp</ref> in January 2006. Since its release, the album broke in the Canadian Top 100 sales chart and spawned three hit singles, "Butterflies"<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVLkLqG9UMI</ref> and "Desensitize"<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6gmj4nS7iI</ref>, with the latter track (featuring hip hop star [[Choclair]]) reaching the BDS Top 40 charts and "Referee".
-''Face Behind The Face'' was also licensed internationally, and has made Karl Wolf an instant star in the Middle East. "'Butterflies' with an oriental theme was at No. 1 for eight consecutive weeks on the radio there. Through his own family's Lebanese origin, he knew the consequences of war and violence, as his family was forced to leave their native Lebanon for Canada when Karl was just three. His track "Summer Days (In Beirut)" had a positive impact there. He has achieved success in the [[United Arab Emirates]] as well, where he opened for [[Mary J. Blige]].
+''Face Behind The Face'' was also licensed internationally, and has made Karl Wolf an instant star in the Middle East. "'Butterflies' with an oriental theme was at No. 1 for eight consecutive weeks on the radio there. Through his own family's Lebanese origin, he knew the consequences of war and violence, as his family was forced to leave their native Lebanon for Canada when Karl was just three. His track "Summer Days (In Beirut)"<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oICR2m435U</ref> had a positive impact there in very difficult times. He has achieved success in the [[United Arab Emirates]] as well. He was confirmed to open for [[Jennifer Lopez]] on her [[Dubai]] gig<ref>http://www.jlo.net/forums/showthread.php?t=5612</ref>. However the event was not to be as she decided to cancel that leg of the tour. However Karl Wolf just weeks later opened for [[Mary J. Blige]].<ref>http://archive.gulfnews.com/tabloid/Entertainment/10045109.html</ref>.
 The album, ''Face Behind the Face'' garnered a nomination for a [[Juno Award]] for the [[Juno Award for R&B/Soul Recording of the Year|R&B/Soul Recording of the Year]] in 2007. Wolf was also nominated for four Sounds of Blackness Awards.<ref name="Hour">{{cite web|title=Sounds of Blackness Awards|author=Burnett, Richard|date=[[2007-04-12]]|publisher=[[Hour (magazine)|''Hour'']]|url=http://www.hour.ca/news/news.aspx?iIDArticle=11837}}</ref>
+===Album Tracks===
+*Intro
+*Life on a Break
+*Face Behind the Face
+*Desensitize
+*Hollow Girl
+*Bootyful
+*Referee
+*Princess
+*Butterflies
+*Cuz I Luv U
+*Just a Moment Away
+*Summer Days (in Beirut)
+*Radio
+*Life
+*Desensitize (club mix) Choclair / Karl Wolf
+===Singles===
+*Butterflies
+*Desensitize
+*Referee
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 * [http://www.karlwolf.com Official site]
 * [http://www.myspace.com/karlwolftheartist MySpace site]
+* [http://www.karlwolf.com/forum/  Message Board / Forum]
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