Kathy Ann Kosins is an American singer specializing in

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and R&B; she is also an ASCAP award-winning songwriter and modern abstractionist painter. Kosins has recorded several CDs under her own name and was first known as a singer of soul, rock, and pop having worked extensively with the bands

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and recording artist

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. In more recent years, she has become an internationally known jazz singer; as a multi-media artist she also incorporates her painting into those live presentations.

Biography

Early years and education

Kathy Kosins was born in

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to Marilyn and Harry Kosins. Her father was a well-known clothing store owner (Kosins Clothes) who dressed many of the

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acts and music personalities.Miriello, Ralph A
''Notes on Jazz: Life of a Working Musician: An Interview with Jazz Vocalist Kathy Kosins''
Monday, June 10, 2013 (in two parts). Retrieved 2014-06-01. Kosins worked in her father's store as a child and was heavily influenced by being able to meet prominent pop artists, music personalities such as

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, and

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. Her father took her on one of his clothing buying trips to New York in 1967 where she saw the

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production of

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, and she was "sold on being a performer" from that point on. She was primarily listening to pop and R&B while her brother David (two years younger) was listening to records such as

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and the

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, and

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. She notes the wide range of music she was exposed to early on; she was most influenced by

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as a singer growing up. Kosins attended

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and then

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where she completed an

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Detroit and rocks bands (1976-1992), Was (Not Was)

Kosins early on was working with rock bands in the late 1970s and had worked with Michael Henderson.Larkin, Colin. The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Fourth edition, London. 2006. Kosins was 24 when she met David Weiss (

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) and Don Fagenson (

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). She met Don Was in the studio when he and Jack Tann were putting together the first record for the band

. The two men had a hit single before the first 1981 album ''Was (Not Was)''. She gave them a demo of her singing and was eventually hired as a backup singer and the contractor for other background singers for ''Was (Not Was)''. She toured and recorded with Was (Not Was) and with Michael Henderson as a background vocalist during this time through the late 1980s. She was also singing and arranging background vocals for producer Don Was on numerous sessions, which led to her becoming one of the most sought after session singers in the region. Don Was produced her 1982 single ''

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'', which is a re-make of the

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tune (with

). Kosins comments on the first Was (Not Was) hit album, "It was the best...this really was for me the most creative project I think I was ever involved in." She went on to do several other albums with Was (Not Was) through the 1980s; she also recorded with the British band Floy Joy. Kosins had another dance single in 1985 she produced and wrote, "I Got The Night Off", which was distributed by Carrere/Sony of France. Besides playing in Europe, the recording did make it back to the United States and was popular with

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DeeJays playing

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. During the late 1980s and early 1990s she established working relationships with songwriters and collaborated with

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, April Lang, Lisa Ives, and Walt Szymanski among others. She became a full-time songwriter doing mostly R&B,

and pop. Her song writing credits for recordings, TV and movies number at least one-hundred to include music for the

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movie ''

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''. She has also been a

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and

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talent for many television and radio commercials.

Jazz and painting (1993-present)

Moving into singing jazz

From 1993 through 1995 Kosins had her first notable engagements as a jazz singer with the

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and

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Orchestras. In the early 1990s, Kosins started to move her song writing into a more traditional jazz approach. She was writing in New York with

; she was also working with Marcy Drexler and April Lang. Franzel, Lang and Kosins started writing what would become Kosins' first CD as a primary artist, ''All in a Dream's Work''. Kosins had solicited this first set of tunes to a number of established jazz singers without result. She recorded the songs herself for the 1996 release with Schoolkids Records, it featured a collection of nine originals and an arrangement of the Miles Davis composition "

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".Macnie, Jim
"Jazz: Blue Notes"
''Billboard Magazine,'' October 21, 1995, page 43. Retrieved 2014-06-01. The recording was played on over 250 jazz stations, her debut jazz offering reached the Top 20 in the

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. Her CD ''Mood Swings'' was released in 2002 on

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and received very good air-play on the radio.''CMJ New Music Report,'' Apr 1, 2002 The CD ''Vintage'' was released in 2005 and again she received very good reviews and airplay. Through a collaboration with singer

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and singing with him on his

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Show (Mahogany's Kansas City Revue and the Detroit-Memphis Experience), Kosins signed in 2005 with Mahogany Jazz; she toured Europe with Mahogany in 2009. ''Vintage'' and her most recent recording ''The Space In Between'' (2013) are with the Mahogany Jazz Records label. In 2010 Kosins decided to take a new approach by releasing singles quarterly under the new Mahogany Digital label, rather than an entire CD every few years. "If a live audience falls in love with a new song, I can record and release it to radio while the music is fresh and hot. This is something you can't do if you're committed in advance to a full album release," said Kosins. Also she adds, "Vocalists are performing music that they, not their parents, grew up with. They feel this music in a convincing way and are destined to widen their audience with music that is both appealing and legitimate." In more recent years Kosins has utilized the talents of arrangers Paul Keller, Jack Cooper, and Tamir Hendelman for her big band book, the show ''Rhapsody in Boop'' and the 2012 CD release ''To The Ladies Of Cool'' with

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. ''To The Ladies Of Cool'' is a contemporary exploration of the West Coast School of Cool that focuses on the music of

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and

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with music orchestrated by Hendelman for jazz quintet. Her tune "Hershey's Kisses" was co-authored with

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(from ''To The Ladies Of Cool'') and also his "Little Black Night Gown", which first became famous with

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's big band. Her show ''Rhapsody in Boop'' was premiered with the

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and has been performed in numerous venues in the

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Painting

Kosins is a painter of modern abstractions and the works she produces are visual interpretations of audio recordings by the jazz greats. She started painting in 1990, around the time her father died, but it had nothing to do with his death. Her artwork has been shown in art gallery exhibitions and are held in private collections, including recent acquisitions from the Monk Institute in Los Angeles,

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, the Oregon Council for the Arts and the Milford Center for the Arts. She comments, "I like painting it keeps me sane. It keeps my Jou Jou going."

Music and art education in schools

As a jazz educator and recording artist, she has been an artist in residence at over 180 colleges and universities over the past decade. She developed a unique workshop titled, ''Improvisation On Canvas''. The clinic has been well received with music, dance, art and theater students/professionals.

Awards and grants

*ASCAP song writing awards *Michigan Council for the Arts (Jazz Composer of the Year) *Michigan ArtServe Advocacy Group (grants)

Venues performed at (partial list)

* Birdland - New York *

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- New York * The Dakota Jazz Club - Minneapolis * The Green Mill - Chicago * The Jazz Kitchen - Indianapolis *The Air Berlin Summer of Jazz Series – Germany *

Kennedy Center The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (formally known as the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, and commonly referred to as the Kennedy Center) is the United States National Cultural Center, located on the Potom ...

- Washington DC *

Sitka Jazz Festival Sitka Jazz Festival is a three-day jazz festival in the community of Sitka, Alaska that takes place every February. It features educational clinics for participating students, evening concerts featuring professional jazz artists, and the All-Alaska ...

- Sitka, Alaska *

North Sea Jazz Festival The North Sea Jazz Festival is an annual festival held each second weekend of July in the Netherlands at the Ahoy venue. It used to be in The Hague but since 2006 it has been held in Rotterdam. This is because the Statenhal where the festival w ...

- Rotterdam, Holland * Jazz à Vienne Jazz Festival - Vienne, France * The San Javier Jazz Festival - San Javier, Spain *

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- Switzerland *

Tanglewood Jazz Festival The Tanglewood Jazz Festival, was a summer music festival, featuring contemporary jazz artists. In 2012, the event was cancelled. It was held every year on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday of Labor Day weekend, in Lenox, Massachusetts. The festival wa ...

- Lenox, MA *Fox Jazz Fest 2005 - Menasha, WI

Artists worked with (partial list)

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* Eric Harland * Peter Bernstein * Robert Hurst *

Cyrus Chestnut Cyrus Chestnut (born January 17, 1963) is an American jazz pianist, composer and producer. In 2006, Josh Tyrangiel, music critic for ''Time'', wrote: "What makes Chestnut the best jazz pianist of his generation is a willingness to abandon notes ...

*Matt Wilson *

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Larry Goldings Lawrence Sam “Larry” Goldings (born August 28, 1968) is an American jazz keyboardist and composer. His music has explored elements of funk, blues, and fusion. Goldings has a comedic alter ego known as Hans Groiner. Life and career Gold ...

* James Moody *

Bernard Purdie Bernard Lee "Pretty" Purdie (born June 11, 1939) is an American drummer, and an influential R&B, soul and funk musician. He is known for his precise musical time keeping and his signature use of triplets against a half-time backbeat: the "Purdie ...

* Eric Harland *

Red Holloway James Wesley "Red" Holloway (May 31, 1927 – February 25, 2012) was an American jazz saxophonist. Biography Born in Helena, Arkansas,Daniel E. Slotnik"Red Holloway, Swinger of the Sax, Dies at 84" ''The New York Times'', February 28, 2012 ...

Reuben Wilson Reuben Wilson (born April 9, 1935) is a jazz organist. He performs soul jazz and acid jazz, and is best known for his title track "Got to Get Your Own". He was born in Mounds, Oklahoma and his family moved to Pasadena when he was 5. He played in ...

Donald Vega Donald Vega is a Nicaraguan-born American jazz pianist and music composer. Early life Vega was born in Masaya, Nicaragua, a town well known for its handicrafts. He was born with a severe cleft palate, for which he has had many surgeries to cor ...

*Ben Wolfe *

Eric Marienthal Eric Marienthal (born December 19, 1957) is a Grammy Award-nominated Los Angeles-based contemporary saxophonist best known for his work in the jazz, jazz fusion, smooth jazz, and pop genres. Early life Eric Marienthal was born on December 19, 1 ...

Mitch Ryder Mitch Ryder (born William Sherille Levise, Jr.; February 26, 1945) is an American musician who has recorded more than 25 albums over more than four decades. Career Ryder formed his first band, Tempest, when he was at Warren High School, and th ...

Chuck Findley Charles B. Findley (born December 13, 1947 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania) is an American trumpet player known for his diverse work as a session musician. He also plays other brass instruments such as flugelhorn and trombone. His technical abilities ...

Discography

References

Bibliography

*Larkin, Colin. ''The Encyclopedia of Popular Music'', Fourth edition, London. 2006. *Freidwald, Will. ''A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers'', page 692. *Macnie, Jim. ''

Billboard Magazine ''Billboard'' (stylized as ''billboard'') is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation. The magazine provides music charts, news, video, opinion, reviews, events, and style related to the music ...

'', October 21, 1995, page 43. *''

Jazz Times ''JazzTimes'' is an American magazine devoted to jazz. Published 10 times a year, it was founded in Washington, D.C. in 1970 by Ira Sabin as the newsletter ''Radio Free Jazz'' to complement his record store. Coverage After a decade of growth ...

'', Review of ''Vintage'', Volume 35, Issues 6-10, 2005. page 79 *''CMJ New Music Report'', Apr 1, 2002 *''Cadence'', Volume 22, Issues 1-6, Bob Rusch, B. Rusch, 1996. Page 233. *''

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'', Volume 85, Issues 1-7, New Yorker Magazine, Incorporated, 2009. Page 10. * Miriello, Ralph A. ''Notes on Jazz: Life of a Working Musician: An Interview with Jazz Vocalist Kathy Kosins'' Monday, June 10, 2013 (in two parts)

External links

Official website
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