Kate Jacobs (born January 11, 1959, in Alexandria, Virginia, United States) is an American singer-songwriter.
[2] She was a fan of Fred Astaire, and her disparate musical tastes included standards written by Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, and Johnny Mercer,[3] as well as country music by artists like Loretta Lynn.
[1] In 1999, she released her third album, Hydrangea, to which guests Peter Holsapple, Vicki Peterson and Susan Cowsill added their musical contributions, as did long-time cohorts Dave Schramm and James MacMillan.
"Never Be Afraid" is based on a phrase of her Aunt Katia's in 1938 when the family was emigrating to the US; "A Snowy Street" is based on a journal entry of her doctor grandfather in post-revolutionary Russia; "Eddy Went To Spain" is about an uncle who fought in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade for the republican side in the Spanish Civil War, and "Good Doctor" was based on a journal of Elena, a fourteen-year-old Tuberculosis patient of her great grandfather's, who fell in love with her physician.
[1] After a six-year hiatus while she raised two sons, Jacobs, a Hoboken, New Jersey resident since 1981, released her fifth album Home Game in January 2011 through Small Pond Music.