Karen Gonzalez，Karen Marie Gonzalez Beniquez was born in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico on September 13, 1987 and raised in Gainesville, Florida. Singing Pattie Smith`s "Sometimes Love Just An`t Enough" in the back seat of her mom`s rusty brown 1974 Oldsmobile Cutlas Supreme at the age of five; was where Karen first showed signs of a career in the arts.