Catherine Davis Higgins is an American voice actress, singer and

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Career

Music career

Higgins earned a degree in music from

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in 1991. She is a trained pianist who studied with the jazz artist Bob Richardson. She released the first jazz album by her own name ''The Tide is Low'' in 2002. The second jazz album is ''Stealing Freedom''. She is also in a band called Upper Structure.

Voice acting career

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in '' Naruto'' and Talho Yuuki in Eureka 7. She has also voiced CC in '' Code Geass'' and Saber in the original ''

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''. Between 2010 and 2013, Higgins voiced Tails in the video game series ''

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''. She also voices Kate, Stinky, and Lilly in the ''

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'' sequels. In 2014, Higgins was cast as Ami Mizuno / Sailor Mercury in the Viz English dub of ''

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''. She voiced Purah in '' The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild'' and in '' Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity'' and Starla in Nick Jr.'s ''

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''. She is the current voice of Princess Aurora since 2010, a

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character originally seen in

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’s ''Sleeping Beauty.'' She also played the voice of

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in ''

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'' and Briar Beauty in ''

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''. She also starred as Barbie in ''

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'' in 2012.

Filmography

Anime

Animation

Films

Video games

Discography

Studio albums

* ''The Solid Rock'' (Concord, 1998) * ''Bigger than Love'' (Concord, 2006) * ''Jazz Standards'' * ''A Very Merry Christmas'' * ''Little Parts'' (2009) * ''Sweet and Blue'' (2016)

Collaborations

* ''6 by 5'' by Upper Structure (2004)

Singles

* "Jump Up, Super Star!" – '' Super Mario Odyssey'' (2017) * "Break Free (lead the way)" – '' Super Mario Odyssey'' (2017)

References

External links

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