Meet and hear more from Katherine Ho of The Voice Season 10

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Meet and hear more from Katherine Ho of The Voice Season 10

March 2, 2016 By Mark Franklin 0

Her audition: Katherine Ho, 16, of Thousand Oaks, Calif., auditioned with Taylor Swift’s “Wildest Dreams.” We saw just a snippet of her audition because she was part of a montage package. But she got chair turns from Blake Shelton and Adam Levine. She joins Adam’s team after he called her vocals “ethereal.”

Her background: The Voice website tells us that Katherine wants to pursue music even though both of her parents — Chinese immigrants — have graduate degrees and work in science. She started playing piano at age 5 and taking vocal lessons at age 9. Her vocal teacher landed Katherine some session work on the 2010 film “Valentine’s Day.” She also attended A Cappella Academy, a summer camp founded by Pentatonix’s Avi Kaplan.

What the show didn’t show:

In 2014, she was one of 167 students from across the country selected to participate in Grammy Camp by the Grammy Foundation. She attended a camp in Los Angeles.

During a conference call with the media, Katherine said The Voice audience was the largest crowd she’s ever performed in front of and called it an “incredible” experience.

She says she considers herself a pop artist and her major influences include Sara Bareilles, Tori Kelly and Pentatonix.

That love of youthful pop music is why she chose to audition with “Wildest Dreams.” She calls it one of her favorite Taylor Swift songs, but says it also proved a challenging one to tackle. “I think I grew as a singer by choosing a harder song.”

Katherine said Blake was actually one of her coaching preferences pre-audition but that Adam “is more similar to my genre. I feel like he could really help mold me as an artist. I’m still at this stage where I’m not 100 percent sure what my artist identity is. I know generally, but I think Adam can help me hone in on what I really want to do.”

On iTunes: Just her Voice performance.

Keeping up with Katherine:
Twitter: @iamkatherineho
Facebook
YouTube

“I Was Made for Loving You” (Tori Kelly/Ed Sheeran cover)