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Katelyn Tarver Profile |
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Birth Date: November 2, 1989
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Birth Place: Glennville, Georgia, USA
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Birth Name: Katelyn Marie Tarver
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Height: 5'6"
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Biography |
Katelyn Marie Tarver is an American singer, who is a native
of Glennville, Georgia. She came to fame in the early 2000s,
as an American Idol spinoff American Juniors finalist and
released her debut album Wonderful Crazy in 2005 by an
independent record label, TC Music. She is also a model,
represented by Wilhelmina Models and modeled for such
magazines as COSMOgirl! and Teen People.
Katelyn took part in the first and only season of the
reality television program American Juniors. Competing
against thousands of others who auditioned for the show, she
succeeded in making it to the finals (top ten), but did not
win a spot on the five member band.
By the end of 2005, she released under the TC Music record
label, her first maxi single, "I'll Make It Real", which
includes the b-side "Lover Boy" plus some remixes of the
b-side and later released her debut album, Wonderful Crazy.
Tarver's debut music video "Wonderful Crazy" was released in
2006 and heavy rotation on numerous CCM outlets in United
States, peaking at #1 on the national CCM chart in CRW
magazine. Her song "Something In Me" was also included in
the TV series South of Nowhere.
In 2006 she began touring the U.S. with the Radio Disney
IncubaTor Tour and will join The Jonas Brothers on a portion
of Radio Disney's Jingle Jam Tour in the fall 2006. She also
filmed a new TV ad campaign for the Gospel Music Channel and
co-host the Miss Freedom Pageant with MJ Garrett from MTV's
The Real World.
Her debut album will be re-released, under the name "Brand
New Day", which includes her new single, called "Chasing
Echoes" which was produced by Andy and Adam, the writers and
producers of Jesse McCartney's #1 hit "Beautiful Soul". This
will only be available in Japan for 2006 and in the United
States soon. To promote the album, Katelyn will be in Japan
and the Philippines for a 2-week promotional tour, starting
on October 18th in Japan and then continuing in the
Philippines on October 24th with numerous live performances,
interviews and television appearances.
As well as being a singer, she is a model, represented by
Wilhelmina Models (New York). She has modeled for such
magazines as COSMOgirl! and Teen People.
Using motion capture Tarver acted as the title character in
the direct-to-video movie The Barbie Diaries, released in
2006. Sensors recorded her movement, so her movements would
control the movement of the animated figure of Mattel's
Barbie. She lives in Norway |
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Other
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Her last performance on American Juniors was "Have You Ever"
She does gymnastics
She and her Mom have an apartment in New York City, where
they live while Katelyn records songs for her album.
The song she sang when she auditioned for American Juniors
was "Can't Hurry Love".
Sites Faith Hill as one of her favorite singers.
Opened up Jeff Foxworthy's comedy show, by singing.
She was a cheerleader at her school. |
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