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Kayte signed a recording contract with Silver Hill Records in 2009 and her first major album, "Born To Love You" was released worldwide August 24th, 2010. "Born" peaked at #9 on the Cashbox Pop Country and Roots Music Charts in December 2010 and January 2011, spending ten weeks in the top ten, and remained on the Americana Internet and Terrestial Radio Airplay Charts for 22 weeks. This album was produced by Jim Foster (formerly of the prestigious Music Row Cosmic Mule Group) who is a Grammy-nominated writer and publisher with an impressive track record including hits on Tim McGraw, Diamond Rio, Martina McBride, and Lonestar. Her album "Serene Noel" was her prior chart success with the group "Strong & Bryon"; it peaked at #93 in December 2003.
Kayte Strong is a singer, songwriter, keyboardist, guitarist, ukulele artist, arranger, producer, engineer, recording artist and feature writer with a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from the University Of Oregon and a degree in Keyboards from Dick Grove School of Music. She has released fifteen albums in the past fifteen years. She sold 200,000 recordings of her ORIGINAL music touring around the United States by herself in her funky purple van, and later in her sporty black Ford Focus. She has released many... Read More ... albums under other names such as "Kayte Wolf", "Kayt E. Wolf" and "Strong & Bryon" (instrumental compositions).
As a backing vocalist and keyboardist in the nineties, Kayte Strong performed with some of the most successful artists of the fifties, sixties, and seventies before audiences as large as 25,000 people while a member of the "Crews Coalition Band" based in Los Angeles, California. Some of the artists she has performed with are:
Al Wilson, Chris Montez, Lisa Lynne, The Champs, The Superbs, The Coasters, The Platters, Mel Carter, Tommy Roe, The Originals, The Safaris, Frankie Ford, Jimmy Beaumont, The Fleetwoods, The Intruders, Rosie and the Originals, the Penguins, Jewel Aikens, Paul and Paula, Sly, Slick & Wicked, The Three Degrees, The Tymes, Eddie Holman, Brenton Wood, Barbara Mason, Dee Dee Sharp, Little Eva, Barbara Lewis, Guy Mitchell, Richard Berry, Gaynel Hodge, The Delphonics, Barbara Lynn, Peaches & Herb, MC Blvd, Brenda Holloway, Al DeLory, the Chris Cobb Band, and Dennis Bryon (Amen Corner, Bee Gees).
She was then "discovered" and brought to Nashville in 1998 by Grammy award-winning producer Al DeLory (Glen Cambell, Beachboys) after singing only one song in a church in Nashville, Tennessee. The result was the highly successful album "Four Roses", which continues to sell strongly after its release over twelve years ago. With the release of "Four Roses", Kayte had to give up all of her other gigs and concentrate solely on her recording career.
Kayte Strong was one of the most popular vocalists touring the craft and art festival circuit from 1998 through 2008, with performances in a different city every weekend; 10,000 to 500,000 people were in attendance at each event. Her recording and writing partner Dennis Bryon was one of the musicians responsible for the incredible success enjoyed by the supergroup "BeeGees" in the seventies and eighties; Dennis was the drummer on such hits as "Staying Alive", and "You Should Be Dancin'".
As a solo act, Kayte has opened for Earth, Wind and Fire and The Friends of Distinction, and was on radio and television on the west coast as a commercial singer. Her television and radio credits include performances on WSM ("The Opry Station"), the CSA Country Jam in Laurel, Maryland, Studio 10 (Morning Show) in Tampa Bay, Florida, Prebys On Music on the Dakota Access Channel and National Public Radio (NPR). She has sung on HBO in one of their movies of the month (Widow's Kiss), a major motion picture starring Sylvester Stallone and Shelley Winters ("Touch Of A Stranger"), and performed as a keyboardist on the syndicated television shows "Eye on Hollywood" and "Cagney and Lacey". She became a published writer for the first time in the Billboard Books release "Tales From The Rock And Roll Highway" and her song "Love On A Rainy Day" was in the series "Swingtown" on NBC. She has written film cues and title music for video in "Erik Winalda, American Hero", and several nature documentaries including the early winter 2010 DVD release entitled "Birds Gone Wild" by Ken Burgener with music by Kayte.
Kayte is one-half of the instrumental duo "Strong & Bryon" which had a #96 chart record on the New Age Charts in 2003 with their release "Serene Noel". Kayte plays all of the keyboards and Dennis is the drummer in this New Age "Virtual Orchestra". As a keyboardist, Kayte was the originator of and was featured in the 1998 Keyboard Magazine cover article "Blow Off The Record Biz".
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