KATHY BROWN

The name Kathy Brown may not be familiar to all. Unless, that is, you like your soulful house music, in which case she is a shining star up there with the best vocalists of our time, singing and, most often, writing and arranging, songs that prove very much the truth as once written by Berthold Auerbach: “Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life”.

Like many a great diva, Kathy first found her voice by singing with her local Gospel choir with three of her sisters. Given that her mother – a Minister – played guitar, and that her Aunt is Shirley Caesar, the ‘Queen of Gospel Music’ – with such a heritage Kathy’s chosen path comes as little surprise, and these roots shine through in every note she sings.

When asked what drives her as an artist Kathy Brown replies: “Loving me first of all, the love that I have for myself. And what I see, when I sing, what it does to other people – that drives me. How I make you feel when I sing. Not to just get up and sing because anyone can get up and sing but if someone can get up and sing and you feel it and it touches you and your hairs stand up on your arms or whatever...So when I sing, if I don’t feel it then I know you don’t feel it, and at the end of the day, it is all about how you are feeling. That’s what drives me – the thought that I get when knowing how it makes you feel".