Katya Gorrie

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“Jazz Vocals with Juice!” Sean Ormond, Vivante Magazine

Katya Gorrie is a vocalist, performer and composer from North America now living and working in the UK.

She began her professional singing career after four years of classical study at the Conservatory of Music and another three years in an intensive Jazz program at Capilano College in Canada.

As well as forming her own various Jazz ensembles Katya has composed music for theatre, arranged and written music for her original bands, and has worked in film and television as both a singer and an actor.

It is this combination of musical and performance experience that give Katya her unique and inimitable vocal style.

With 5 albums under her belt she has been featured on BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio Suffolk, BBC Radio Bristol, Devon and Somerset, Campbell Burnap’s Jazz program on SMOOTHJAZZ, and most recently part of Ned Sherrin’s music quiz show, COUNTERPOINT.

Katya has toured throughout Canada, the US, and Europe, performing at Jazz festivals, clubs and theatres to enthusiastic audiences.

“Katya Gorrie’s individual voice impresses both in person and on CD”
Alyn Shipton,BBC Radio 2

“POUSSE CAFÉ - One of the best jazz albums I’ve heard in a long while”
David Carr, OT Records/Manager-Clare Teal

“Katya has the technical and emotional range to do it all”
Bath Chronicle

“Sexy, Sharp-witted, Dynamic entertainer.” The Vancouver Sun

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