Kate Jacobs

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Kate Jacobs (born January 11, 1959, Alexandria, Virginia) is an American singer-songwriter. Jacobs wanted to become a ballet dancer. Her father was in the United States Foreign Service, and she moved to Austria when she was eleven. Her family was a singing one, if not formally musical. Her father sang old Tin Pan Alley songs at home, and her mother sang Russian ballads and American standards. At church she sang songs of the civil rights era and the folk revival and some wackier songs like Up Up and Away. She was a fan of Fred Astaire, and her disparate musical tastes included standards written by Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, and Johnny Mercer, as well as country music by artists like Loretta Lynn.