Kate Pierson

Kate Pierson

Catherine Elizabeth "Kate" Pierson (born April 27, 1948 in Weehawken, New Jersey) is an American vocalist and one of the lead singers and founding members of The B-52s. One of the multi-instrumentalists in the band, Pierson played guitar, bass and various keyboard instruments. In the B-52s, she has performed alongside Cindy Wilson, Fred Schneider, Ricky Wilson and Keith Strickland.

Personal life

Pierson is the owner of Kate's Lazy Meadow Motel in Mount Tremper, New York, a rustic modern motel in New York's Catskill Mountains near Woodstock, New York. She operates the motel with her partner, Monica Coleman. Pierson and Coleman have been life partners since 2003.

Collaborations

Pierson has collaborated with the following bands and singers:

• The Ramones, in the early 1980s on the song, "Chop Suey", with Cindy Wilson and Debbie Harry, the title is available as bonus track on the Ramones' re-release CD "Pleasant Dreams".
• Cindy, Kate, Keith were part of the group "Melon" and recorded 2 songs ("I Will Call You" and "Honeydew") for a Japanese TV show titled "Snakeman Show". The soundtrack LP from 1980 or CD from 1988 was only released in Japan.
• Fred Schneider, on his Fred Schneider & the Shake Society solo album from 1984 on songs "Monster", "Summer in Hell", "I'm Gonna Haunt You" and "Boonga (The New Jersey Caveman)".
• Iggy Pop, on the 1990 Top 20 song "Candy".
• R.E.M., on the songs "Shiny Happy People", "Country Feedback" and "Me in Honey" from the 1991 album Out of Time, and "Fretless" from the 1991 soundtrack Until the End of the World.
• Matthew Sweet, on the 1993 album Earth.
• With Cindy Wilson on their common cover of the McFadden & Whitehead's song "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now", recorded for the soundtrack The Associate in 1996
• The soundtrack for "The Rugrats Movie", released in 1998 contains the track "The World Is Something New To Me" and features, Kate, Fred and Cindy along with other artists.
• "We Are Family", a single released to collect money for the victims of 9/11 features Kate and Fred in the chorus and on the DVD documentation.
• Jay Ungar & Molly Mason have Kate singing on their 2003 album "Relax Your Mind", on the track "Bad Attitude"
• 2003 was a busy year for Kate, she also spoke the "Vamp" on the double CD / book release of Jack Kerouac's "Doctor Sax And The Great World Snake"
• Junior Senior, on the song "Take My Time" from the 2005 album Hey Hey My My Yo Yo (with Cindy Wilson)
• Peter Jöback, duet on the song "Sing" from the 2009 album "East Side Stories"
• David Byrne and Fatboy Slim, on the song "The Whole Man" from the 2010 album "Here Lies Love".
• Pierson sang on the tracks "I'm in Love," "Step Inside, Love," "Love of the Loved," and "Nobody I Know" on the album From a Window: Lost Songs of Lennon and McCartney.
• She was also a member of the Japanese group NiNa with Yuki Isoya.

Film and television

• The Rugrats Movie (1998, voice only)
• The Flintstones (1994)
• A Matter of Degrees (1990)
• Athens, GA: Inside/Out (1987)
• One Trick Pony (1980)
• She portrayed a club owner in the Flight of the Conchords episode "What Goes on Tour".
• The Adventures of Pete and Pete (1993, "What We Did on Our Summer Vacation")
• She is credited alongside Fred Schneider in the Nickelodeon cartoon Rocko's Modern Life for the theme song vocals.
• She and the rest of the B-52's appeared on an episode of the CBS soap opera Guiding Light in 1982.

[YouTube has the video, and it is stated that the Guiding Light episode was in 1982.] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL7SiRJ4ucQ

External links

• Kate Pierson at IMDb