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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” capture 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.
KATHY
opened for 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.
"A nuclear reactor where her
vocal chords should be",
KATHY knocked the audiences off their feet at the
Jazz on the River Festival, Alexandria, LA; Springfield
Music Festival, Springfield, OH; Schomburg Museum in
Harlem; made four appearances
at the
country’s largest R&B festival, Coors Festival in
Cincinnati; gave a standing room only performance at the prestigious
South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas;
Kennedy Center with Lionel Hampton; New York's Sweetwater's
and Washington's IBEX Club. Touring throughout the
United States,
Canada, Russia,
Germany,
Switzerland, Caribbean
and LensCrafters Give The
Gift of Sight International
Program,
Tunisia,
North Africa,
KATHY was guest performer with the Cincinnati Chamber
Orchestra with former conductor Keith Lockhart and the
Northern Kentucky Symphony.
KATHY,
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.
KATHY
is the 2005 Leadership Cincinnati Distinguished Alumni,
2004 City Beat
CEA Best Jazz Artist,
a Cincinnati Enquirer Woman of the Year, YWCA Career
Woman of Achievement prestigious Cincinnati Post-Corbett
Award recipient, 2004 College-Conservatory of Music William
Lawless Jones Jazz Award and City Beat’s sixth
most influential person in the arts. KATHY, who holds a
Master of Arts from the College-Conservatory of Music, University of
Cincinnati, entertains over 850,000 participants of Learning
Through Art, Inc. performing arts presentations. KATHY
wins rave reviews for her work in Ain’t Misbehavin’, the
60’s review, Beehive; Crowns at Tony recipient Cincinnati
Playhouse in the Park; Crowns at the Repertory Theater of
St. Louis and guest performer in the national tour of The Vagina
Monologues.
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