KATELYN TARVER

The singer, model, actress best known as a finalist on the hit Fox TV series American Idol Juniors, where she won the heart of America each week, entertaining a audience of 35 million people.

Since then Katelyn has shared the stage with The Jonas Brothers, Jesse McCarthy, Kimberly Locke, Jeff Foxworthy, Bo Bice - headlined the Camplified Tour and a Radio Disney Tour as well as touring Japan and the Philippines. Katelyn's acting and modeling credits include numerous commercials and print as well as The Barbie Diaries playing the title role.

Katelyn grew up in the small friendly town of Glennville, Georgia, in a home filled with song. Her mother, a church choir vocalist and her father, an avid “southern blues guitarist” would fill Katelyn’s everyday life with beautiful, heartfelt music. As Katelyn tells it, "There was always music in our life, the church, the house and always the car radio." At an early age, Katelyn taught herself “the feel” and “interpretation” of pop music. It was then that Katelyn began developing her own distinctive style that has been called “the heart and soul of a woman in the body f young girl.”

Eager to perform for a larger audience than just family and friends, in 2003 the Tarver’s traveled to Chattanooga, Tennessee for the audition of the “American Idol Juniors”. Her talent left the producers speechless and she was immediately given a spot on the show. Katelyn received tremendous critical praise from judges Debbie Gibson and legendary pop vocalist Gladys Night all the while building a solid fan base, as Katelyn became one of the finalist in the “American Idol Juniors” competition. Upon Katelyn’s return to Georgia, Katelyn began recording demos and performing numerous shows in the southeastern part of the United States.

One of the demos made its way to New York City and into the hands of Tom and Concett Bradley at their record label TC Music. Katelyn was signed to TC Music in late summer of 2004, and began recording in New York and Los Angeles with such producers as Mattias Gustafsson (Backstreet Boys) and Kevin Savigar (Josh Gracin and Rod Stewart). Katelyn then walked the Red Carpet at the American Music Awards, appeared in commercials and print media for VH1, MTV, BET, Cosmo Girl and Teen People - was featured in an issue of Super Model Unlimited magazine - was named the ³Pick Hit Of The Month² in the March 2006 issue of Bop magazine and charted the number 1 music video on The Gospel Music Channel's Pop Chart. In addition, Katelyn's tours of Japan and The Philippines lead her to features in such magazines as In Rock in Japan as well as the cover of Candy magazine in The Philippines.

Currently Katelyn is managed by Jonas Group (Jordin Sparks, Demi Lovato), represented by CAA (Jim Carrey, George Clooney) and is a cast memeber in the new Nickelodeon show "Big Time Rush".

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