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Katharine McPhee Profile |
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Birth Date: March 25, 1984
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Birth Place: Sherman Oaks, California, USA
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Birth Name: Katharine Hope McPhee
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Height: 5'7"
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Biography |
Katharine Hope McPhee is an American singer who is a
finalist in the fifth season of American Idol.
McPhee has been singing since the age of two. Her mother,
Peisha McPhee, a vocal coach and accomplished cabaret
singer, recognized a talent for music in her daughter and
started training her. Her father, Daniel McPhee, is a
producer who has worked on numerous television series and
other projects. Katharine graduated from Notre Dame High
School in 2002. She then attended the Boston Conservatory of
Music. At the Cabrillo Music Theater in Thousand Oaks,
California, she performed the title role in a musical
theatre production of Annie Get Your Gun, for which she was
nominated for a 2005 Los Angeles Stage Alliance Ovation
award for Best Actress.
McPhee has an older sister, named Adrianna, and lists
Whitney Houston and Brian McKnight as her favorite artists.
In June 2005 she played Anna Muir in The Ghost and Mrs.
Muir, a musical by Scott DeTurk and Bill Francoeur, based on
the book by R.A. Dick at NoHo Arts Center in North
Hollywood, California.
During her initial audition for American Idol in San
Francisco, she sang "God Bless the Child." Judge Randy
Jackson said she was the best voice he had yet heard that
season, judge Paula Abdul praised her looks, and judge Simon
Cowell said she was amazing and "current." However, McPhee's
mother had gone with Katharine to the audition, and Cowell
made a comment about the possibility that the elder McPhee
was a stage mother.
In the final cut-down show for the Top 24, she was the first
to be put through and, in excitement, kissed all three
judges on the lips. She cried both when she passed her
initial audition and when she made it into the Top 24.
In the first round of the semi-finals, she sang Barbra
Streisand's "Since I Fell for You," again earning high
praises as Cowell said that out of the four "very, very good
vocalists" of the night, she was the best.
During the week leading to the third round of the
semi-finals, where Katharine sang Aretha Franklin's "Think,"
she was rumored to be quitting due to pregnancy. However,
during the performance show on March 7, 2006, she denied
this accusation, later attributing it to a poor choice of
clothing. Host Ryan Seacrest, with tongue-in-cheek, asked
about her and fellow idol contestant Kevin Covais.
On the March 29, 2006 results show Katharine was in the
bottom three with Ace Young and Lisa Tucker. She ended up in
the bottom two with Lisa, but was not eliminated. |
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Other
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Daughter of singer and vocal coach, Peisha McPhee
Lives in California
Roomates with fellow idol contestant Kellie Pickler
She sang "Since I Fell for You", "All in Love is Fair", and
"Think to advance to the top 12 of American Idol.
Her father's name is Daniel
Her older sister's name is Adrianna |
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