Kathy Kosins was born in Highland Park, Michigan to Marilyn and Harry Kosins.
22 Facts About Kathy Kosins
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Kathy Kosins's father was a well-known clothing store owner who dressed many of the Motown acts and music personalities.
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Kathy Kosins worked in her father's store as a child and was heavily influenced by being able to meet prominent pop artists, music personalities such as Berry Gordy, Diana Ross, Jerry Vale, Dinah Washington, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, the Temptations, Lou Rawls, and the Four Tops.
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Kathy Kosins's father took her on one of his clothing buying trips to New York in 1967 where she saw the Broadway production of Hair, and she was "sold on being a performer" from that point on.
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Kathy Kosins attended Southfield High School and then Oakland Community College where she completed an Associate degree.
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Kathy Kosins was 24 when she met David Weiss and Don Fagenson.
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Kathy Kosins met Don Was in the studio when he and Jack Tann were putting together the first record for the band Was.
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Kathy Kosins gave them a demo of her singing and was eventually hired as a backup singer and the contractor for other background singers for Was.
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Kathy Kosins toured and recorded with Was and with Michael Henderson as a background vocalist during this time through the late 1980s.
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Kathy Kosins was singing and arranging background vocals for producer Don Was on numerous sessions, which led to her becoming one of the most sought after session singers in the region.
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Kathy Kosins's song writing credits for recordings, TV and movies number at least one-hundred to include music for the Snoop Dogg movie Soul Plane.
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Kathy Kosins has been a voice over and jingle talent for many television and radio commercials.
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Franzel, Lang and Kathy Kosins started writing what would become Kathy Kosins' first CD as a primary artist, All in a Dream's Work.
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Kathy Kosins had solicited this first set of tunes to a number of established jazz singers without result.
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Kathy Kosins recorded the songs herself for the 1996 release with Schoolkids Records, it featured a collection of nine originals and an arrangement of the Miles Davis composition "Four".
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In 2010 Kathy Kosins decided to take a new approach by releasing singles quarterly under the new Mahogany Digital label, rather than an entire CD every few years.
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In more recent years Kathy Kosins has utilized the talents of arrangers Paul Keller, Jack Cooper, and Tamir Hendelman for her big band book, the show Rhapsody in Boop and the 2012 CD release To The Ladies Of Cool with Resonance.
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Kathy Kosins's show Rhapsody in Boop was premiered with the Jazz Orchestra of the Delta and has been performed in numerous venues in the United States.
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Kathy Kosins is a painter of modern abstractions and the works she produces are visual interpretations of audio recordings by the jazz greats.
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Kathy Kosins started painting in 1990, around the time her father died, but it had nothing to do with his death.
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Kathy Kosins's artwork has been shown in art gallery exhibitions and are held in private collections, including recent acquisitions from the Monk Institute in Los Angeles, Baruch College, the Oregon Council for the Arts and the Milford Center for the Arts.
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Kathy Kosins developed a unique workshop titled, Improvisation On Canvas.