Kellie Lin Knott October 16, 2009

"I started out singing in a coat closet when I was five or six. I refused to sing unless I was invisible. Eventually, with a LOT of coaxing, I went from that (singing in the closet) to acting in musical theater. I couldn't dance, but I could belt out those showtunes like nobody's business. When my dad gave me my first guitar, I took it one step further and started writing. I wanted to sing my words."

In the 20 years since emerging from the musical closet, Boston-based singer-songwriter Kellie Lin Knott has released 5 CDs and performed her original songs in festivals, house concerts, colleges & listening rooms nationwide. Songs from her most recent solo CD, Comfortable, (folk-rock) won multiple awards and media mentions. Her collaboration with fellow songwriters Victoria Vox & Stolie as the "Midwestern Super Group" Tres Femmes (pop) led to the release of a full-length band CD and two year tour received with rave reviews.

But recently, Knott's writing shifted gears from funky-folk to retro-pop. Goofing around during a 2006 sound check in Franklin, MA with headlining artist, Susan Werner, led to an impromptu jazz duet of the Patti Paige classic, "Old Cape Cod". Kellie Lin fell in love with singing the new-to-her genre of classic jazz & cabaret standards.

"It's interesting to experiment as a song interpreter, especially after performing original material for so long. Some of my early heroes were vocalists who did NOT write, like Bernadette Peters and Bette Midler. And I spent five years of my life in musical theater before I decided to hit the coffeehouse circuit in highschool.

Now I want the best of both worlds. So I'm writing a motley collection of songs that might do well in a tiny little cabaret in New York or Chicago - songs that have the character of another time, but with a few modern-day updates in theme and vernacular."

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