It is amazing to see how chance encounters can lead to great results – even at a Post Office! A young Georgian girl with beautiful hazel-green eyes and impishness said to me, “I can sing!” I was talking to a friend about the recording project I was working on, and she happened to know Rebecca Kate Myers, who had stopped by to say hello. After some pleasantries, I asked the genial ingenue that I just met to contact me if she wanted to record. Kate can sing almost anywhere. This was a great thing. We later discussed the possibility of working together on a project. I, along with others around me, quickly realized that her voice was richly-textured and controlled. This was however the last time I used the term “controlled” to refer to this particular songbird. Kate is an individualist, who thinks for herself and doesn’t follow the crowd. She hopes you will like her but won’t wait for approval. She would not “go to Harlem [or any other place] in ermine or pearls.” However, she might be seen in a piece of her own creation as she received her college degree. Even though she is only in her twenties and still a young woman, Kate has a surprising gift for her keen knowledge of the world and her sensitive understanding of the feelings of others. This insight and sensitivity is evident in her music. She has recorded the songs, which are not from the American or Brazilian Songbooks. And ….Kate is a free-spirited, unpredictable person. You can’t force her to be happy, positive, and idealistic …. but don’t try to make her conform. She is most comfortable in comfortable clothes with bare feet and her hair pulled back in a ponytail. But when the mood strikes, she can transform into a graceful beauty. Her art captures this duality: Compare her playful rendition of “Satin Doll”, to the stylish, sophisticated delivery of “Sophisticated lady”. Contrast the bluesy sound of “Night Train” and the breezy, languid “Summer Samba”. Tony Wasilewski Executive Producer, Hot Shoe Records, CDBaby
