Monday, December 14, 2009

Style STAR~ KATERINA GRAHAM

STYLE STAR

KATERINA GRAHAM


Katerina Graham (born September 5, 1989)[1] is an American actress, singer, record producer, dancer, and model. She is also the voice behind will.i.am's single "I Got It from My Mama" as well as one of the spokesmodels (The Fantanas) for the Coca-Cola drink Fanta. Graham plays Bonnie Bennett in the The CW show The Vampire Diaries.Born in Geneva, Switzerland, Katerina is the daughter of a Liberian father, Joseph Graham, and a Russian Jewish mother, Natasha.[1] Graham attended Hebrew school and speaks English, Spanish, French, and some Portuguese and Hebrew.[7] She has been exposed to different cultures and societies from an early age. Graham stepped into the entertainment industry at the age of six. From then until she was 14, she could be found in commercials such as Barbie, K-Mart, Pop Tart....


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ESPERANZA SPALDING
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At Only 25, Jazz Phenom Esperanza Spalding Has The Ultimate ‘X-Factor’
Spalding, encouraged by her single mother, began playing violin at age five. A decade later she started playing bass, running blues patterns during Sunday-afternoon nightclub sessions with Portland singer/guitarist Sweet Baby James Benton. The young bassist joined a half-dozen bands, including local indie rock/pop group Noise For Pretend. Prior to attending Berklee, she spent a year studying classical music at Portland State University. In summer 2005, at age 20, she began teaching at Berklee, making her one of the college’s youngest-ever faculty members (Pat Metheny famously taught there at 19). On the horizon, she is developing two Berklee courses: one on singing and playing, and another on transcribing as a tool for learning harmony and theory. She’s also determined to write more horns and background vocals into her arrangements. “I want to expand the palette that I have for arrangements, and also home in on this counterpoint concept with the bass and voice—trying to use it in a way that’s effective, trying to integrate that into song forms and into performance.”