Kathryn Williams

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Kathryn Williams.
Kathryn Williams.

Kathryn Williams (born 1974 in Liverpool, England) is a singer/songwriter.

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[edit] Biography

Kathryn Williams is a singer-songwriter whose work is characterised by delicate vocals and acoustic instruments. She has been compared in style to such artists as Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro and Joan Baez and is a former Mercury Music Prize nominee, and a Gold-Record artist.

In her youth, Williams studied an art foundation course in her native Liverpool, before moving to Newcastle upon Tyne to study for a degree in fine art.

After a friend heard Williams' music, they booked a gig without her knowing it. Williams was intending it to be a one-off event, though she soon found herself being booked again and again by people.

Her next step was recording some of her music onto CD. These quickly sold at her gigs, so Williams set up her own record label, Caw Records, to release her music. However, after her second album, Little Black Numbers, was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize, the increased popularity of her music forced her to sign a licensing deal with Eastwest Records.

Her influences include Nina Simone, Nick Drake, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Simon And Garfunkel and Velvet Underground. She listens to classical and Cuban music, as well as artists such as PJ Harvey and Nick Cave, though she says she will always go back to the influences she grew up with, as a security blanket[citation needed]. She has sung on the new Badmarsh & Shri album and worked with Twisted Nerve artist Pedro.

She has a reputation as a powerful live performer, whose confident stage presence belies the fragile persona which characterises much of her recorded work.

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums

[edit] Singles

  • "The Fade EP"
  • "Soul To Feet"
  • "Jasmine Hoop"
  • "No One Takes You Home"
  • "In A Broken Dream"
  • "Shop Window"
  • "Beachy Head"
  • "Hollow"

[edit] B - Sides

  • "The Fade EP" -

Kiss The Forehead, Some Kind Of Wonderful

  • "Jasmine Hoop"

Foreign Skies

  • "No One Takes You Home"

Without Beat of Drum

[edit] Misc

[edit] External links

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