1. Kiki Ebsen has performed and toured nationally and internationally with many award-winning musicians, including Boz Scaggs, Al Jarreau, Christopher Cross, and Tracy Chapman.
25 Facts About Kiki Ebsen
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Kiki Ebsen was born Nancy Kiersten Ebsen at Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California.
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Kiki Ebsen has three sisters, two half sisters, and one brother.
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Kiki Ebsen spent the first three years of her life on Hutton Drive in Beverly Hills, California.
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Kiki Ebsen moved at age 11 to a secluded ranch in the Malibu mountains.
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Kiki Ebsen started playing piano as a child, following in the footsteps of her mother, aunt, and grandmother.
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Kiki Ebsen pursued her love of music balanced by her love of animals and nature while growing up in the coastal town of Balboa Island, California and on a ranch in the Santa Monica Mountains.
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Kiki Ebsen sang and played keyboard, brother Dustin played drums, and sister Bonnie sang and danced with Buddy, while older sister Susannah was the company manager, and another sister, Cathy, helped with transportation when her schedule showing horses permitted.
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The Kiki Ebsen troupe traveled to dates in Merced, Visalia, Placerville, Sacramento, San Jose, and El Camino College in Torrance.
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Kiki Ebsen then focused on music primarily as her career interests narrowed, and honed her skills in countless California garage bands.
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Kiki Ebsen went on to earn a degree in classical voice from California Institute of the Arts.
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Just out of college, Kiki Ebsen won Collegiate Entertainer of the Year and from there embarked on a touring career with the multiplatinum recording and touring band, Chicago, as a keyboardist and MIDI tech.
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Two tours and one record later, Kiki Ebsen left to join Al Jarreau's touring band.
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Kiki Ebsen later reunited with Paul Brown to create Kiki, which was added to Steve Quirk's Fusion Flavors Best of 2005 list.
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Kiki Ebsen began writing songs as a teenager, and continues to compose to this day.
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Kiki Ebsen began performing the arresting piano and voice confessional coauthored by her father during her own concerts.
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Additionally, Kiki Ebsen joined the tours of more Grammy and Oscar nominees, including Stephen Bishop, and Belinda Carlisle.
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Kiki Ebsen has opened for Christopher Cross, Peter Cetera, Emmylou Harris, and Al Stewart.
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Kiki Ebsen made her touring debut in Scotland during August, 2014.
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From childhood days, Kiki Ebsen would sing, one sister, Bonnie, would dance, and her brother, Dustin, would play drums and join their father, Buddy, in presenting entertainment to those in California residential communities and churches, who might be missing visitors and loved ones and appreciate company.
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Kiki Ebsen has extended her long history of entertaining and participating in charitable fundraisers for worthy causes.
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In 2002, Kiki Ebsen renewed her love of horses by rescuing a foal from a feed lot where it was to be slaughtered for meat.
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Kiki Ebsen went to rescue 10 more horses from economic distress.
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Kiki Ebsen was an extra in the film Back To The Future, playing a musician in the band audition scene with Huey Lewis.
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Kiki Ebsen's voice is featured in the 1993 soundtrack for the film, Bodies, Rest and Motion, starring Bridget Fonda and Eric Stoltz.