Katie Newton is a crossover commercial and musical theatre artist, songwriter, and actress. It has been written that “she possesses a beautiful facile soprano voice with a potent and exciting power with high belt extension. Classically trained, she is equally at home in musical theatre, jazz/standards, and contemporary pop genres. With exceptional intellect and musical instincts, Katie shapes phrases deftly and moves in and out of vocal textures and colors like the most seasoned of performers, defying her age.”

Her work includes singing for Jaclyn Bethany's feature film “Indigo Valley” and on its Sony Music Entertainment released soundtrack. Her featured performance of the Maesa Pullman/Dalal Bruchmann composed film’s score “At the Edge” was called “hauntingly beautiful” and nominated for “Best Score in an Independent Film” by Hollywood Music in Media. She was featured on the soundtrack of the Emmy-Award winning series “The Rehearsal.” Accompanied by award winning pianist, songwriter, composer and performer Jeff Franzel in performing Cole Porter’s classic “Night and Day,” she was recognized for how "her passionate voice and beautiful dynamics create a true signature sound” and the score was nominated for “Best Original Score” by the Indie Series Awards. She also sang other Pullman songs, including the emotionally captivating “Free As a Bird,” for the film “The Delta Girl.” A featured soloist for "Festival South," she has performed for audiences in the southeast United States and internationally, in Germany and most recently, Spain. Her distinctive standards sound, which has been called "her own authentic genre,” is influenced by legendary commercial artists spanning eighty years of genres beginning with Ella Fitzgerald, Etta James, Billie Holliday, Sarah Vaughn, and Gladys Knight to Nora Jones, Stevie Nicks and Lady Gaga. She is similarly moved by the songwriting greatness of Stevie Wonder, Elton John, and Billy Joel. 

As a musical theatre singer and actress, Katie recently performed in "Jesus Christ Superstar" at New Orleans' iconic Lyric Theatre and "Band Geeks" at the beautiful Everblue Arts Festival. She has also performed in local and university productions. She was among nine globally selected musical theatre performers to train at New York's prestigious century old Stella Adler Studio of Acting, eleven musical theatre performers globally chosen for Germany’s International Performing Arts Institute, and won the National Association of Teacher’s of Singers (NATS-ALA) competition prior to graduating from the University of Mobile. Her musical theatre influences include Julie Andrews, Audra McDonald, Barbra Streisand, Kristin Chenoweth, and Sara Bareillis.  

In high school, she was a featured soloist in a Las Vegas themed show, which competed against international competition, and was named FAME’s "Grand National Champion," receiving “Best Vocals,” at the New York Symphony Center on Broadway. She also founded “Healing Voices,” which performed over two dozen times, primarily at in-patient senior facilities and jails. The Governor honored the choir, for its “cultural and civic leadership,” proclaiming “through the choir’s performances, you have selflessly enriched the lives of and help meet the needs of those who are too often forgotten – hospice, nursing home, and rehabilitation patients and their families, foster care children, and the incarcerated.”   

A native of Mississippi, called “The Birthplace of America’s Music,” her beautifully distinctive nuanced style pays tribute to the state’s renowned jazz, R&B, and gospel tradition. She takes pride in Mississippi’s art's heritage, which is musical home to “The King of the Blues," “The King of Rock and Roll,” and “The Father of Country Music,” literary giants William Faulkner, Willie Morris, Eudora Welty, Richard Wright, Tennessee Williams, John Grisham, Katherine Stockett, and Greg Iles, filmmaker Tate Taylor, actor James Earl Jones, and has great admiration for one the world and Kosciusko, Mississippi know by one name - Oprah. Her favorite actors, whether on stage or film, are Viola Davis - she’s in awe of Viola Davis - and Mississippi’s own Morgan Freeman. She enjoys traveling, especially where she can enjoy centuries old cultures and architecture, and may talk about great meals for years! She has met the love of her life….her English cream retriever, “Boo.” In all sincerity, she is humbled by and beyond grateful for the love, character-building and time so many have invested in and with her and hopes to repay them by bringing joy, curiosity, solace, and a sense of peace to those in need, even if only momentarily, when she performs.    

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