Katherine McPhee

Katherine Mc.Phee
Birth Place: Los Angeles, CA
Date of Birth: 03/25/1984
Zodiac Sign: Aries
Profession: Singer; reality-show contestant

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Katharine McPhee knew from a very young age that she wanted to be a professional singer. Katharine belt design her first tune at the age of 2, much to the surprise of her vocal coach mother. With the help of her mother, Katharine McPhee honed their voice in the powerful force that it is today.

Katharine McPhee on American Idol

After high school, Katharine McPhee decided that it was time to focus on their singing and enrolled at the prestigious Boston Conservatory of Music. Although she only attended one semester, Katharine McPhee emerged from the institute with a better understanding about how to get the most from their powerful sideburns. But before her life-changing stay in American Idol, Katharine was an actress and appearances in films like crazy (2005), came to a stage in Annie Get Your Gun and The ghost and Mrs. Muir, and was on television in the short - lived They are here. Shortly after, Katharine McPhee decided a trip to San Francisco to audition for American Idol, where she blew the judges away with her stunning rendition of Billie Holiday's "God Bless the Child".

Katharine McPhee has phenomenally well in the show and captivates the audience and the judges with her silky smooth voice and sexy, but absolutely confident demeanor. Katharine McPhee came second to Taylor Hicks.

She received much recognition following American Idol. Their debut single "Somewhere Over the Rainbow / My Destiny", was on 27 June 2006, from RCA Records. "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" peak at No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and "My Destiny" peak at No. 60th Katharine McPhee toured with Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli Around the same time.

Success

Although Katharine McPhee May, the most popular participant at American Idol's fifth season, they do not take home the prize. Fortunately, RCA was able to see their potential and fast, they signed a record contract. Her first album, Katharine McPhee, debuted at number 2 in Billboard's Top 200 charts and her first single, "Over It", in the top 30th.

In 2007, Katharine McPhee's self-entitled debut album sold 116000 copies in its first week in initial No. 2 on the Billboard Top 200 charts. In November 2007, Katharine announced its plans to begin recording a new album after the split with their possibilities record label, RCA Records. In 2007, Katharine McPhee has her second love on TV's Ugly Betty and on the big screen I Know What Boys Like (2008) next to Anna Faris and Rumer Willis.