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Katherine Prouse

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Member Since: 6/9/2005
Band Website: katherineprouse.com
Band Members: Joe Jewell, Guitar; JD Pinckney, Bass ; Harold Allan, Drums.
Influences: If I really think about it...I was first influenced by watching Rosemary Clooney in White Christmas when I was five. She sang "Love, You Didn't Do Right By Me" in a smokey club, and I knew that I wanted to sing a song like that someday...I was a very serious toddler :) Later, my dad introduced me to Linda Ronstadt and the Nelson Riddle Orchestra. He heard me singing "For Sentimental Reasons" one day and started playing it on the piano...that's still my favorite song to do with him. In my early twenties, I bought a used tape of Etta James- a tribute to Billie Holiday. I played it so much that it broke, but I still love every note. "I'll Be Seing You" is still my rainy day song by her..."in that small cafe...the park across the way...childrens' carousel...the chestnut tree...the wishing well." Somewhere between all of that, I fell in love with the music of Billy Strayhorn, Gershwin, Nina Simone, Dinah Washington, Ellington, Basie, Lena Horne, Wynton Marsalis, Miles Davis, Nancy Wilson, Charles Mingus, John Clayton, Thelonius Monk, Julie London, Billie Eckstine, Ray Charles, Johnny Mercer and of course Ella and countless others. I love all the contemporary singers too... Diana Krall, Casandra Wilson, Nora Jones, Renee Olstead, Micheal Buble, and so on. However, there are certain voices that still capture me beyond language...Karen Carpenter ("You're Enough" - my personal favorite), Nat King Cole (too many to list), and Harry Connick Jr. (especially when he does "Where or When"). With all the other kinds of music I love, jazz has always reached a part of me that I like the most. I'm not a singer that just wants to get myself out there and known. I sing the songs that have influenced me the most...and I've only scratched the surface.
Sounds Like: a smokey bar when I'm not doing a wedding gig :)
Type of Label: Major

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a mothers day thank you

5-10-09for jade and noah...and someday milesI can't raise you to merely survive and exist,but to thrive, create and to endlessly search for the extraordinary within yourself.growing and growingthe roo...
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