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The winner of Fox TV’s first American Idol: The Search for a Superstar competition during the summer of 2002, Kelly Clarkson went from an anonymous talent to a nationally known singer, performing for an audience of millions of viewers
As the scion of a well-heeled heavy metal icon and his clever manager wife, Kelly Osbourne’s celebrity was perhaps inevitable Still, it was a curious blend of bizarre reality TV success, talent for performance, typical teenage petulance, and a flair for Courtney Love-like self-promotion that ultimately posited Kelly fully in the public’s consciousness
Ken Cassidy is a freelance video producer, music consultant, critic, and researcher for ASCAP He has written record and theater reviews for Good Times, published an article in Goldmine, done video reviews for North Shore Today, and has extensive experience in recorded music
Actor/singer Kenneth Spencer at one point bidded fair to succeed Paul Robeson as the leading artistic spokesman for the black community in theater and music A singer by training — with a degree from the Eastman School of Music — Spencer made a major impression as a concert artist and on radio in California at the outset of the ’40s, and in 1943 got major acting roles in two MGM films, Bataan and Cabin in the Sky, the latter an acclaimed musical
Kerry Dexter has been involved in music as a concert photographer, an audio engineer, a radio and television producer, and a journalist She’s been a contributing writer for national music publications including Listen to the Music, Acoustic Musician, Dirty Linen, Tapestry, and Crossroads, and has written about music-classical, folk, country, Latino, Celtic, Native American, pop, bluegrass, blues, new age-for general interest and scholarly periodicals
With a background heavy in the advertising field, Kevin Kelly stretches his creativity writing music for children, but is also an enthusiast for the theater He collaborated with Michael McLean for 12 years on the book for the Biblical musical The Ark
Kamchik is an Israeli vocalist who sings in English, albeit with an ornate and decidedly Middle Eastern inflections, about his obsession with that most American of icons, the cowboy, along with other kitschy Americana
Kimberly Chun is a staff writer at The San Francisco Chronicle where she has written stories on indie pop bands, underground comic book artists, illegal ferrets and the Japanese American internment
Kirk Dombek, age 23, resides in Grand Rapids, Michigan He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but spent most of his childhood in Indiana He has been classically trained in both guitar and piano
Picking up on the sound and inspirations of obvious influences like Mogwai and Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Kiss Kiss go even further in bringing the ghosts of 1970s progressive rock kicking and screaming into the contemporary indie rock scene