Beyond Blackpink, the KC Sisters are coming.The Avon-based girl band of five sisters has been featured on Nickelodeon’s show America’s Most Talented Family, and TikTok with about 56,000 followers and about 1 million likes. And they are just getting started.
Two sisters, Deanna and Noel, are college graduates, Deanna from Hart School of Music at the University of Hartford and Noel from Trinity College, Hartford. Tasha is her senior year at Trinity and twins Elise and Kathleen are also her sophomore year at Trinity. Both Deanna and Noel chose flexible jobs to allow the group to maintain weekly rehearsals, recordings and performances. Deanna is an Applied Behavioral Therapist who works with children with autism. Noel is a financial analyst.
It’s no surprise that the KC Sisters love music. Mom Jennifer Casey is a professional violinist who runs the music program at Avon’s Talcott Her Mountain Academy and is also her private violin teacher. Dad Chris is Hartt’s Professor of Jazz Studies and jazz music arranger who conducts the Hartt Big Band. When the girls were younger, Chris arranged most of their songs while Jennifer was their manager.
And they are very specific about their goals. In a recent interview before rehearsals, the sisters sat around the living room of the house they grew up in and shared their visions. The music they heard in the home they grew up in included many classical influences (they all learned to play the violin), but also Ray Charles, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald and many others. But now I count Carrie Underwood, Alison Krauss, and especially Taylor Swift as inspirations. .
“Taylor Swift tells a story with each song,” says Deanna, who writes many of the group’s songs.
“And those are the things you can remember,” adds Noel. “And she switched many times. She started out in country and she’s more pop now.”
“She had to change her image many times, but the way she did it was very smart,” Elise said.
“I always loved her and was teased,” says Deanna. “Now the whole world loves her.” Noel said some people who shared some of her new songs she’ll be releasing this year and her next year look a little like Taylor Swift. say you said
Jennifer was the first to let the girls perform beyond the living room. “And I thought I should take the girls to a nursing home because they enjoy singing and playing the violin.” That led to her recording her album for Christmas 2007, Things “continued to spiral,” she says.
The sisters credit their father for helping them develop their harmonic style and versatility. “Our father raised us all to sing,” Deanna says of the various harmony parts. “Gradually, the parts of the set have come together, but I like to mix them up for more versatility.”
“I didn’t want to categorize them too much,” he says.
So were the instruments. Art fills the walls of most homes, but Casey’s living room has guitars, banjos, and even cellos hanging on straps from the walls. All started playing the violin when he was four years old. Noelle adds: For us, it’s normal. ”
In addition to writing original music, the sisters record most of their own music and create their own videos. [a professional] Later in the studio we’ll see what we want. We will gain experience and that is important.”
The sisters always add original songs, but they also know the value of keeping a few covers in the mix. “If you create an original for the majority, you lose the audience because they can’t dance to it,” says Elise.
The sisters are down-to-earth about the music business and recognize that making it as a sister band can be a difficult road. increase.
On the other hand, traveling with people you love isn’t a bad way to start your career, says Tasha. “We are close and friends,” she says. “The idea of traveling and making that lifestyle work is going to be a lot of fun.”
December 17th at 7:30pm First Church of Christ, 2183 Main Street, Glastonbury ($10 donation recommended) and December 22nd at 7:00pm at St Patrick’s Church, 7 Burlington Avenue KC See the Sisters in person. , Collinsville (provided voluntarily).
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