Kate Earl (born Kate Smithson) is an American singer-songwriter based out of London.

Early life

Earl was born to Charles and Pomposa Smithson in

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. She is of

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, Dutch and Welsh descent. She has been married three times.

Musical career

She began playing piano at four, sang in her church choir, and began playing the guitar when she was seventeen. The young singer nursed the dream to lead a musician's life in between shifts at her parents’ small-town gas station in

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, Alaska. That dream became a reality when Earl moved to Los Angeles in 2004, where her talent was promptly recognized and led to a record deal with The Record Collection whose music was distributed by

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. Her debut album, ''Fate Is the Hunter'', was released in May 2005.Kate Earl – Music Biography
AllMusic Earl officially changed her name to Kate Earl before the release of her second album. Earl left

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in 2007, and signed with

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the following year. A self-titled album, ''

Kate Earl Kate Earl (born Kate Smithson) is an American singer-songwriter based out of London. Early life Earl was born to Charles and Pomposa Smithson in Anchorage, Alaska. She is of Philippines, Filipino, Dutch and Welsh descent. She has been married t ...

,'' was released as a digital download on August 18, 2009, and in physical copy on November 3, 2009. In 2012, Earl signed with Downtown Records. Her next album, '' Stronger'', was released on November 20, 2012, and was written and recorded with

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, and other well-respected Los Angeles musicians. The first single from the album, "One Woman Army", was released on September 18, 2012. Earl joined the

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and

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as the opening act during their Summer 2013 US and Canadian tour. In 2014, Earl decided to go indie and self produce her next album, ''Ransom''. In 2015, Earl submitted two songs to the BBC Introducing programme, "Good Witch" and "We Promised", and was chosen, as one of six from 200,000 entries, to appear on the BBC Introducing Stage at that year's Hyde Park festival. She was soon signed to BMG Records in the UK, and changed direction into "proper jazz", original, old-school, authentic jazz, drawing on her childhood love of Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, and Big Band swing. The first single taken from her 2017 album ''Tongue Tied'' is "Tongue Tied", which was nominated Radio 2's Record of the Week for the week starting Saturday February 25, 2017. The

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"Tongue Tied" uses a sample from "Disco Bob" by Professor Bobo and Bosko Slim. "Disco Bob" was used as the soundtrack of TV ads for Homebase. Earl was announced as the opening act for

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on his UK tour starting March 2017. Earl performed on episode three of

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. She sang two singles, ''Loyalty'' and ''One Woman Army'', from her album Stronger for Bachelorette Desiree Hartsock and her date Chris Siegfried.

Discography

Studio albums

* ''

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'' (2005) * ''

'' (2009) * '' Stronger'' (2012) * '' Tongue Tied (2017)

References

External links

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Kate Earl collection
at the

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's live music archive {{DEFAULTSORT:Earl, Kate American women singer-songwriters American musicians of Filipino descent American people of Dutch descent American people of Welsh descent Living people Musicians from Anchorage, Alaska Warner Records artists Year of birth missing (living people) Downtown Records artists Record Collection artists 21st-century American women Singer-songwriters from Alaska