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Artist: Katherine Burton
Violinist Katherine Burton hails from Philadelphia, where in addition to performing and releasing records, she teaches as a string instructor at the Philly School District. Burton has performed alongside several choirs (including the Martin Luther King Jr. Choir, the James Cleveland Gospel Music Workshop of America, the Thomas Dorsey Convention,... [+] Read More
Artist: Katherine Shipp
On May 13, 1939, Herbert Halpert made a series of field recordings in Byhalia, MS, including several with the family of Walter and Mary Shipp. Walter, a sharecropper and minister, and Mary, a choir director, had 14 children, several of whom participated in the archival project, but the couple's two daughters, Katherine and Christine, then 19 and... [+] Read More
Artist: Katherine Davis
Listening to them on the radio as a youngster, Katherine Davis was enamored with the lifestyle of the early great blues singers like Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey. She was determined to make singing her career since the clothes, cars and other accoutrements of the high life of her role models fascinated her. Like many singers of African-American... [+] Read More
Artist: Katherine Dunham
Katherine Dunham had enough talent in her -- as a singer, dancer, director, writer, and producer -- for any three people, and she also managed to work in a significant contribution as a rights activist in a career that started in music and dance and lasted for 60 years. Katherine Mary Dunham was born and raised in Joliet, IL, the daughter of a... [+] Read More
Artist: Katherine Jenkins
While still in her mid-twenties, Welsh mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins emerged as Britain's all-time best-selling classical artist, although critics charged her success was more a result of physical beauty than musical talent. Born June 29, 1980 in Neath, West Glamorgan, Wales, Jenkins' fell under the sway of classical music at age seven,... [+] Read More
