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Kim Sutherland

About Me

My focus and passion is vocal coaching and giving voice workshops, it's my true vocation in life. There is nothing more interesting than voice, there are many things as wondeful but it's my absolute favourite. Photos are of my Pug and my beloved husband Leo Bouwmeester who is a super good piano player.
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/30/2006
Band Website: http://kimsutherland.nl
Band Members: The recordings you hear on this page are with Cees Post piano, Rob Armus saxophone, Harm Wijntjes contrabas and Bart Van Helsdingen drums.My current band is Leo Bouwmeester piano, Sven Schuster contrabas, Daniel Casey drums. We often work with the beloved Wouter Kiers saxophonist.All these foreign names? Well that's because I live in Amsterdam, they have some pretty funny sounding names here......I am an Australian, my name is Kim Sutherland.
Influences: My earliest influences were opera singers, I didn't even know about pop music until I was about nine or ten. My mother was an opera singer and we lived in Milan for three years and heard singers in La Scala. Then we only had three records in the house, one of them was Roberta Flack and the other two were Joan Boaez and Steeley Dan.I listened to a lot of dixieland jazz as a teenager and fell in love with jazz. I am really a dixieland singer at heart.Other singers I am influenced by, Meatloaf, Deborah Harry, Irene Cara, Nancy Wilson, Billy Holiday, Christina Aguilera, Dixie Chicks, Lara Fabian, Whitney Houston, Kate Ceberano, Luther Van Ross, Dinah Washington, Holly Cole, oh so very many.My greatest passion is just voice. I love being a vocal coach and love helping other people sound great. It's an honour to be able to work with other voices and be part of them finding a deeper personal power.
Sounds Like: You get to decide that.
Record Label: pug dog music

My Blog

in love with life

I am totally in love with life at the moment.BUT, that said I wish to complain  a little bit:I have a slight cold which annoys me greatly, twitchy eye, scratchy throat and have to blow my nose all the...
Posted by on Wed, 29 Apr 2009 01:52:00 GMT

top friends

I am going to rotate the top friends around every now and then. I don't like the idea that some friends are more important than others. Everyone is important. Not as important as my pug though!
Posted by on Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:43:00 GMT

life and other things

It keeps raining so we can't do the yoga in the park. I took the opportunity to sleep in, I've been so tired lately. I got too busy for me the last few weeks. I am going to simplify my schedule and f...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:05:00 GMT

yoga and blah blah

I've been doing yoga every day for 35 days. Well I have missed one or two days but it's been mostly every day. So great to do. Not much to blog about today just wanted to check in. My voice has bee...
Posted by on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:45:00 GMT

the last workout

I really enjoyed workout tonight. I was disappointed we didn't have the church but the coffee room can be more intimate and has it's own focus. This means that we get filmed next week instead. I rea...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:49:00 GMT

Time To Blog Again!

Oh Oh Oh it's been way too long between postings. I've been busy developing my skills and coaching and doing some gigs here and there. The last workshop was a fantastic experience. It was my first fo...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 02:57:00 GMT

Never Buy Fujitsu Siemens Computers

..> Beware of Fujitsu Siemens Please people NEVER buy a computer from this company.I've had a very bad experience with Fujistsu Siemens. I have an Amilo pi505, the dvd player wasn't working so the...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:58:00 GMT

Almost Christmas

I haven't blogged for ages. Australia was wonderful, did I write about that? I did about seven vocal workshops there, Tutti Ensemble was the highlight of my workshops, I have become a fan.   It's...
Posted by on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 01:40:00 GMT

Gorgeous Weather

Today is just so warm and sunny, I walked the Pugette and could see all the people in the park enjoying this sudden burst of summer.   I feel so much better today. I am going to listen to some so...
Posted by on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 05:19:00 GMT

very very tired........

I feel really worn out this week. I always feel guilty when I am tired though like it's just another way of being lazy.   I took my 12 year old neice and my sister in law out shopping in Amsterda...
Posted by on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 11:04:00 GMT