Kate Markowitz
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Kate Markowitz (born in Los Angeles, California) is an American singer-songwriter. Markowitz is perhaps best known as a back-up vocalist who has recorded and performed with a number of singers, most notably James Taylor but also Shawn Colvin, Don Henley, Billy Joel, k.d. lang, Lyle Lovett, Graham Nash, Randy Newman, and Warren Zevon.
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[edit] 1990s European success
Markowitz had a platinum-selling single in Germany in the 1990s. The single began as a Bacardi Rum jingle that she recorded for the European market. The jingle was so popular that she was asked to transform it into a song about "summer love" rather than rum. She co-wrote the lyrics and recorded it (with Arnold McCuller and Valerie Carter on backing vocals) under the pseudonym Kate Yanai. Called "Summer Dreaming (The Bacardi Song)," it went to Number 1 within two weeks in Germany, where it stayed for seven weeks, selling well over 500,000 copies.
[edit] 2000s activities
Markowitz continues to work with a number of artists. In 2003, however, she produced her first album, Map of the World, on which she wrote or co-wrote a number of the songs.
[edit] Discography
[edit] Solo albums
- Map of the World — 2003
[edit] Selected credits
- Abraham Laboriel — Dear Friends — (1993)
- Anna Vissi — Everything I Am — (2001)
- Arnold McCuller:
- You Can't Go Back — (1999)
- Exception to the Rule — (2000)
- Back To Front — (2002)
- Aselin Debison — Sweet Is the Melody — (2002)
- Bill Withers — Lean on Me: The Best of Bill Withers — (1994)
- Boz Scaggs — Other Roads — (1988)
- Carol Weisman — Language of Love — (2003)
- Clifford Carter — Walkin' into the Sun — (1993)
- Connie Kaldor — Moonlight Grocery — (1984)
- Diana Ross — Force Behind the Power — (1991)
- Don Grusin:
- Don Grusin — (1983)
- No Borders — (1992)
- Zephyr — (1991)
- 10k-La — (1980)
- Raven — (1990)
- Dori Caymmi:
- Brazilian Serenata — (1988)
- Kicking Cans — (1993)
- Eddy Mitchell — Frenchy — (2003)
- Eric Burdon:
- Comeback — (1982)
- Eric Burdon Unreleased — (1982)
- Wicked Man — (1988)
- Crawling King Snake — (1994)
- Misunderstood — (1995)
- Soldier of Fortune — (1997)
- Burdon Tracks — (1998)
- Ernie Watts — Sanctuary — (1986)
- James Taylor:
- New Moon Shine — (1991)
- (LIVE) — (1993)
- (Best LIVE) — (1994)
- Hourglass — (1997)
- Greatest Hits Volume 2 — (2000)
- October Road — (2002)
- Johnny Mathis — Right from the Heart — (1985)
- Julia Fordham — Swept — (1991)
- Julie Brown — Trapped in the Body of a White Girl — (1987)
- k.d. lang — Live by Request — (2001)
- Lee Ritenour:
- Color Rit — (1989)
- World of Brazil — (2005)(bckgr)
- Wes Bound — (1992)
- Lyle Lovett — Road to Ensenada — (1996)
- Mylène Farmer — Anamorphosée — (1995)
- Neil Diamond:
- In My Lifetime — (1996)
- Lovescape — (1991)
- Up on the Roof: Songs from the Brill Building — (1993)
- "Christmas Album, Vol.2" — (1994)
- Oscar Castro-Neves:
- Maracuja — (1989)
- More than Yesterday — (1991)
- Tropical Heart — (1993)
- Phyllis Hyman — I Refuse to Be Lonely — (1995)
- Randy Newman:
- Guilty: 30 Years of Randy Newman — (1998)
- Best of Randy Newman — (2001)
- Richard Elliot — Take to the Skies — (1991)
- Rubén Blades — Nothing But the Truth — (1988)
- Sarah Vaughan with Milton Nascimento — Brazilian Romance — (1987)
- Sylvie Vartan — Toutes les femmes ont un secret — (1996)
- Valerie Carter — Way It Is — (1996)
