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Kate Pierson
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American singer, lyricist, multi-instrumentalist
Film & TV
Weehawken, New Jersey, USA
Catherine Elizabeth Pierson is an American singer, lyricist, and founding member of the B-52s. She plays guitar, bass and various keyboard instruments. In the early years, as well as being a vocalist, Pierson was the main keyboard player and performed on a keyboard bass during live shows and on many of the band's recordings, taking on a role usually filled by a bass guitar player, which…
Known for
- SNL50: The Homecoming Concert — Self2025
- Glitter & Doom — Lonely Landlord2024
- The B-52's: 1982 US Festival — Self2024
- Women Who Rock — Self2022
- Alumination — Narrator2021
- Fanny: The Right to Rock — Self2021
- The B-52s Live at US Festival — Self2020
- Corporate Animals — Psychedelic Dream Creature (voice)2019
- The US Festival 1982: The US Generation Documentary — Self2017
- Difficult People — Kate Pierson2015
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1948-04-27
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 10,628
- Total plays
- 105,944
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Kate Pierson is one of the singers of The B-52's (along with Cindy Wilson and Fred Schneider), and contributed to several works beyond her band, most notabily on Iggy Pop's song Candy and the album Out of Time from R.E.M.. She was a member of the largely unknown japanese group called NiNa, with former Judy and Mary lead singer YUKI and other great artists, but their work was noted most on Japan. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Kate+Pierson">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Elizabeth
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Weehawken
- Occupation
- lyricist
- Educated at
- Wheaton College
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Notable work
- Shiny Happy People
- Field of work
- singing
- Genre
- new wave
- Instrument
- organ
- Official website
- www.katepierson.com
- Image
- Kate Pierson NYC.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1948-04-27
- start of work period
- 1979-00-00
- social media followers
- 11928
- birth name
- Catherine Elizabeth Pierson
- Commons category
- Kate Pierson
- pseudonym
- Kate Pierson
- copyright representative
- American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
- sexual orientation
- non-heterosexuality
- member of
- The B-52's
- writing language
- English language
- name in native language
- Kate Pierson
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