Kate Higgins

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Kate Higgins
Born Catherine Davis Higgins
(1969-08-16) August 16, 1969 (age 43)
Charlottesville, Virginia
Residence Auburn, Alabama and Los Angeles, California
Other names Kate Davis
Occupation Voice actor, singer, jazz pianist
Years active 1992–present (musician)
1990-present (voice actress)
Agent William Morris Agency
Notable credit(s) Naruto
as Sakura Haruno
Eureka Seven
as Talho Yūki
Fate/Stay Night
as Saber
Sonic the Hedgehog (series)
as Miles "Tails" Prower
Home town Auburn, Alabama
Spouse(s) Jess Lofland
Children 2
Relatives Christine Schnittka (sister)
Website
http://www.katehiggins.com

Catherine Davis "Kate" Higgins (born August 16, 1969) is an American voice actress, singer, and jazz pianist. Born in Charlottesville, Virginia and grew up in Auburn, Alabama. She is best known as the English voice of Sakura Haruno in the hit anime series Naruto, Talho Yūki in Eureka Seven, C.C. in Code Geass and Saber in Fate/stay Night. In 2010, she is the new voice of Miles "Tails" Prower in the SEGA video game series Sonic the Hedgehog.[1] She is also known as Kate Davis.

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Music career [edit]

Higgins earned a degree in music from Auburn University. She is a trained pianist who studied with the jazz one, Bob Richardson with voice acting, Higgins pursued her music career in jazz. She plays piano and has worked as a sideperson for many musicians. She released the first jazz album by her own name The Tide is Low in 2002. The second jazz album is Stealing Freedom. Her style of hard-bop is expressed in her jazz albums and she has played with other musicians like Katisse Buckingham, Justin Robinson, Roy Hargrove, Steven Bernstein, Tom Harrell, Eric Alexander, Marc Johnson, Christian McBride, Lewis Nash, Bobby Previte, Vic Juris, Jesse Davis, Mike Fahn, Greg Osby, Joe Lovano, Josh Roseman and many others. She is also in a band called Upperstructure. This features the same lineup as Melissa Fahn's R&B band in her album Avignon. They released one album called 6 by 5. Her piano idols are Thelonious Monk, Wynton Kelly and Horace Silver.


Filmography [edit]

Anime roles [edit]

Leading roles in Bold

Non-Anime Roles [edit]

Video Games [edit]

Documentary [edit]

Staff credits [edit]

  • AnimeTV - Theme song performance "I'm On My Way"

Discography [edit]

  • The Solid Rock (1998) - Concord Records
  • The Tide is Low (2002) - Concord Jazz - with Eric Alexander and Steven Bernstein
  • Upper Structure 6 by 5 (2004)
  • Bigger than Love (2006) - Concord
  • Jazz Standards
  • Christmas
  • Stealing Freedom (2009) - Concord Jazz - with Eric Alexander and Steven Bernstein
  • Little Parts (2009) - Produced by Joel Alpers
Preceded by
Amy Palant		 English voice of Miles "Tails" Prower (video games)
2010-present		 Succeeded by
Incumbent

Production [edit]

Higgins had been cast for English voice of four characters for voice actress Ayako Kawasumi:

References [edit]

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  1. ^ a b http://blogs.sega.com/usa/2010/07/15/out-of-the-mouths-of-hedgehogs/
  2. ^ http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/7852/katehiggins.png

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