Kate McGarry

Kate McGarry (* 1970 in Hyannis ) is an American jazz singer .

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McGarry grew up in the Boston area, initially influenced by Celtic folk music . She attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst , where she studied African American music and jazz with Horace Boyer and Archie Shepp . As an autodidact, she became a member of the vocal group One O'Clock Jump . She appeared as a guest with Clark Terry and Hank Jones at the Monterey Jazz Festival . She moved to California where she became part of the Los Angeles jazz scene and performed regularly in clubs like the Jazz Bakery . She also worked as a studio musician. In 1992, living in New York at the time, she released her debut album Easy to Love on Vital Music.

After a retreat between 1996 and 1999, she recorded her second album Show Me , which was released in 2001. Other albums appeared on Palmetto Records ; the album If Less Is More ... Nothing Is Everything was nominated for a Grammy as well as All My Tomorrows by Jeremy Fox, on which she was featured as a guest . She is also a member of the MOSS vocal group with Theo Bleckmann , Peter Eldridge , Lauren Kinhan and Luciana Souza , with whom she released an album in 2008. Together with her husband Keith Ganz, she also performs under the name Genevieve and Ferdinand (a live album was released in 2014). She can also be heard on albums with John Hollenbeck and the hr big band and the album Centennial - Newly Discovered Works of Gil Evans .

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SURNAME	McGarry, Kate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American jazz singer
DATE OF BIRTH	1970
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hyannis