- Kat Edmonson【 38 songs in total 】
- Kat Edmonson (born August 3, 1983) is an American singer and songwriter who calls her music vintage pop.
Born and raised in Houston, Edmonson is the only child of a single mother who enjoyed songs from the Great American Songbook as well as traditional pop from the 1940s and '50s. She wrote her first song at age nine while riding the school bus. In 2002, after a year at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, she moved to Austin, Texas, to pursue a music career.
In 2002 Edmonson auditioned for the second season of American Idol and was one of the Top 48 contestants invited to Hollywood. She returned to Austin from Los Angeles and spent several years as a regular in the Austin club scene.
Albums
In March of 2009, her self-released debut album, Take to the Sky, reached the Top 20 on the Billboard magazine jazz chart. Way Down Low was released in 2012 following a successful Kickstarter campaign and received a warm critical reception from The New York Timesand NPR, reaching No. 1 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart. Her third album, The Big Picture, was released on September 30, 2014, by Sony Masterworks. Like her second album, it reached No. 1 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart.
Performing
She was the main act at the Taichung Jazz Festival in Taiwan, at Tanglewood, and at the New York City Jazz Festival.
In 2010, she was invited by Lyle Lovett to be the opening act for his U.S. summer tour. In December 2010 he invited her to perform 'Baby, It's Cold Outside' on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Their version of the song was released on Lovett's 2012 album, Release Me. They collaborated on Edmonson's song 'Long Way Home' on her second studio album, Way Down Low.
In 2012, Edmonson appeared on NPR's Tiny Desk concert series, Austin City Limits, and in 2013, A Prairie Home Companion. She returned to A Prairie Home Companion in November 2014, reprising the character Cat Mandu that Garrison Keilor wrote for her for the show's regular skit, 'Guy Noir, Private Eye.'
In the spring of 2013, she embarked on her first U.S. tour. The following summer she played the Montreux Jazz Festival. As the opening act for Jamie Cullum in 2013, she toured France, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and the UK. She has also toured with Michael Kiwanuka, Chris Isaak, and Gary Clark Jr.
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A Voice
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All The Way
2014
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Angel Eyes
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Avion
2014
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Best(Provided)
2014
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Champagne
2012
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Charade
Henry N. Mancini, Johnny Mercer
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Crying
2014
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9
Dark Cloud
2014
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10
For Two
2014
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11
Hopelessly Blue
2012
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12
I Don't Know (Reprise)
2012
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13
I Don't Know
2012
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14
I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
2012
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15
I'm Not In Love
2012
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16
Just Like Heaven
Boris Bransby-williams, Simon Gallup, Robert Smith, Porl Thompson, Laurence Tolhurst
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17
Just Like Starting Over
John Lennon
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18
Just One Of Those Things
Cole Porter
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19
Long Way Home
2012
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20
Lovefool
Nina Persson, Peter Svensson
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21
Lucky
2012
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22
Night & Day
Cole Porter
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23
Nobody Knows That
2012
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24
Oh my love(Provided)
2014
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25
Old Fashioned Gal
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26
One Fine Day
Gerry Goffin, Carole King
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27
Rainy Day Woman
2014
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28
Summertime
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29
The Best
2014
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30
This Was The One
2012
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31
Till We Start To Kiss
2014
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32
What Else Can I Do?
2012
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33
Whispering Grass
2012
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34
Who's Counting
2014
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35
Who's Counting
2014
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36
You Can't Break My Heart
2014
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37
You Can't Break My Heart
2014
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38
You Said Enough
2014