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KATHY WADE
"The First Voice of a New Era!"
KATHY WADE, #1Jazz and Blues Vocalist on MP3.com; #1 MP3.com Jazz Vocal Time To Say Good-bye featured on Sci-Fi network's First Wave sound track and featured in Essence Magazine, March 1999 (Teaching With Music).
KATHY is an award winning international entertainer whose "rich interpretative skills as a song stylist extraordinaire" has taken her throughout Europe, United States and Caribbean. KATHY captures the imagery of emotion on her recording, You Got The Magic and upcoming release, Kathy Wade, Klassic. (DAKA Music) "Magic," recorded in Los Angeles, accents Kathy's "multi-octave contralto of effervescent energy" with world-renowned musicians including Gerald Albright, Harvey Mason and GRAMMY nominated arranger, Producer/Pianist, Bill Cunliffe.
KATHY'S "expressive voice can extract the essence out of a song the way a magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat" as revealed on the video counterpart of her single, "Someone's In Love", featured on the soundtrack of the film "CINCINNATI - The Movie", awarded an EMMY, a TELLY and three International Film and Television Festival awards.
In addition to her recordings, television, commercial projects Kathy shared concert bills with Dionne Warwick, Cleo Laine, Nancy Wilson, Diane Schuur, Shirley Horn, Anita Baker, Kenny G, Whitney Houston, David Sanborn, George Benson, Al Jarreau, Stephanie Mills, Jonathan Butler, Frankie Beverly and Maze, Will Downing, Najee and Ramsey Lewis.
KATHY WADE twice voted Best Singer by Cincinnati Magazine stars in her debut PBS special, "KATHY WADE, Jazzstruck", co-produced the Instructional Television production of her educational program, Black Anthology of Music; Creator and Executive Producer of the children's educational television and on-line interactive streaming Books Alive! For Kids.