Kate Higgins

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Kate Higgins
Born Catherine Davis Higgins
August 16, 1969 (1969-08-16) (age 42)
Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.
Other names Kate Davis
Occupation Voice actor, singer, jazz pianist
Years active 1992–present (musician)
2002–present (voice actress)
Agent William Morris Agency
Spouse Jess Lofland
Children Beckett Lofland, Foster Lofland
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. She was born in Charlottesville, Virginia grew up in Auburn, Alabama, and currently lives in Los Angeles. She is best known as the English voice of Sakura Haruno on the hit anime series Naruto, Talho Yūki from Eureka Seven, C.C. from Code Geass and Saber from the anime Fate/stay Night. As of 2010, she is now the official voice of Miles "Tails" Prower of the SEGA video game series Sonic the Hedgehog.[1] She has also been credited under the name of Kate Davis. She gave birth to her first son, Beckett, in 2009 and her second son, Foster, in 2010 with her husband Jess Lofland.

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[edit] Music career

Higgins earned a degree in music from Auburn University. She is a trained pianist who studied with the jazz pianist, Bob Richardson. As well as 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. Her CD, "Bigger than Love", can be purchased through CDBaby.com at http://cdbaby.com/cd/katehiggins2

[edit] Filmography

[edit] Anime roles

Leading roles in Bold

[edit] Non-Anime Roles

[edit] Video Games

[edit] Documentary

[edit] Staff credits

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

[edit] Discography

  • 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

[edit] References

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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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