Katrina Williams is an American jazz and
blues
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singer currently living in Asheville, North Carolina. She was a finalist on ''
America's Got Talent
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'', where she made it through to the
Las Vegas rounds.
Williams also appeared on ''
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno''.
Community outreach
Kat Williams is program director for the Buncombe County Sheriff's Department. She became involved in the Boys and Girls Club of Henderson County in 2015 and joined its board of directors.
In 2018 she performed as part of "A Special Evening with Elizabeth Smart: Where's There Hope, There's Healing," an effort to address sexual violence.
Awards
In 2012 Williams received an
Emmy Award
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nomination for her work on the ''Hands of Hope'' project which featured several famous vocalists.
She received the 2012 AMG Heritage Award for Female Vocalist of the Year. She won a collaborative AMG Heritage Award for her work on the video for ''Hands of Hope.''
References
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America's Got Talent contestants
American women singers
Place of birth missing (living people)
American blues singers
Living people
Musicians from Asheville, North Carolina
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women