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lings spent a lot of time going to their
dad's recording sessions with orchestras,
where "I got my ear for [music] through
osmosis."
Haru Markowitz's death deeply affect-
ed her daughter. Kate's dad remarried
three more times, and her childhood was
a "blur of new stepmothers, stepsiblings,
endings and beginnings."
When the family scene became too
much, she turned to music and her
horse for comfort.
"I would hang out with my horse after
school," recalls Markowitz.
"I would ride her bareback on the

her success as a backup
singer to the superstars.
"I wanted to make a liv-
ing as a singer, not a star," explains the
40-something Markowitz, a Los
Angeles-based musician who always
aspired to record her own music, yet
purposely avoided the spotlight.
Detroit-area music fans can get a
glimpse of Markowitz's steady gig as a
backup vocalist when she sings with
James Taylor Sunday, July
20, at DTE Energy Music
Theatre. As an added
bonus, Compass Records
will release her first solo
album, Map of the World
on Tuesday, July 22. It will
be available for purchase in
major record and book-
stores, as well as over the
Internet.
"I am scared and excited
about moving into the
limelight," she says. "I don't
plan to give up my career
singing for other people,
though, because I still really
like doing that."
Markowitz has lent her
poignant voice to k.d.
b'
Kate Markowitz: As an adult, I am more in
Shawn Colvin, Warren
touch with being Jewish. I respect it more than
Zevon, Billy Joel, Lyle
when I was a kid."
Lovett, Randy Newman,
George Benson, Kenny
beach. I'd walk her into the ocean, get
Loggins, Diana Ross, Billy Joel, Graham
off her back, take the reins over her
Nash and Don Henley. She opened for
head, and she'd roll in the shallow water.
Colvin at the Roxy in L.A.
Then I'd get back on her and ride down
the beach. It was pretty sweet."
Music Runs In The Family
During high school, her dad recorded
demo
tapes with her. Although she had
Markowitz's paternal grandmother was
musical ability, he didn't encourage a
an amateur opera singer. Her father,
career in music. He suggested she study
Richard Markowitz, who died in 1994,
law or something more intellectual.
was a jazz musician and composer for
"Singing was like breathing to me,"
TV and film.
she says. "It was all I knew."
He scored theme songs for popular
Her dad's suggestion was eerily similar
TV series like Wild Wild West and The
to the advice he got from his own par-
Rebel, and wrote music for many other
ents, Ruth and Harry Markowitz, who
shows. Markowitz's brother, Jonathan,
believed their son should give up his
also is a musician.
own musical aspirations to run the Santa
Markowitz's mother died from cancer
Monica, Calif, clothing store they built
when Kate was 10. Afterward, the sib-

