title: Karen Ramirez
text: # Karen Ramirez
  
  Karen Ramírez (born 21 November 1971 in North London) is an English female dance music singer. At the age of six, Ramirez moved to Trinidad and Tobago and lived there for some time, before returning to London and entering university. In 1998, she had a No. 1 hit single on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart and a No. 8 hit on the UK Singles Chart with her cover version of Everything but the Girl's "I Didn't Know I Was Looking for Love", under the simpler title of "Looking for Love".
  
  Her second album, entitled Bees in the Trees, was released exclusively on iTunes in May 2006.
  
  ## Discography
  
  ### Studio albums
  
  * Distant Dreams (20 July 1998), Manifesto - UK #45
  * Distant Dreams (Japan release) (1998), Manifesto/Mercury (three extra tracks: two versions of "Troubled Girl", the Spanish version and the Boris Dlugosch & Michael Lange elusive club mix, and "Fever")
  * Bees in the Trees (May 2006), self-released
  
  ### Remix albums
  
  * Remixed Dreams (Japan only) (13 January 1999), Mercury
  
  ### Singles
  
  | Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Album |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Title | Year | UK | AUS | IRL | Album |
  | "Troubled Girl" | 1998 | 50 | — | — | Distant Dreams |
  | "Looking for Love" | 1998 | 8 | 47 | 23 | Distant Dreams |
  | "If We Try" | 1998 | 23 | — | — | Distant Dreams |
  | "Lies" | 1999 | — | — | — | Distant Dreams |
  