Kathi Burg
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Kathi Burg

San Diego, California, United States | SELF

San Diego, California, United States | SELF
Band Folk Singer/Songwriter

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"Kathi Burg - Sun In Rain (CD Review)"

Growing up in the state of California, Kathi Burg was influenced by a wide variety of musical tastes, but what comes through the most is her love of folk mixed with a heavy dose of spirituality. For her newest release, Burg mines both of those musical extremes for good cause, putting together a pretty good album as a result.

The first thing you will realize about Burg is that she possesses a strong voice, which comes into full view on songs like "Ordinary" and "Don’t Expect Much," which fuses Gospel with Alternative. Her Amy Grant influence can be heard in the lively "One Of Those Days," and she puts her Praise shoes on tight on cuts like "Tiny Man" and "Real To Me."

The Contemporary Christian scene continues to prosper and thrive with each year, and with every thing that we go through these days…..we need hope. Music like this can provide that hope.
- by Chuck Dauphin at MusicNewsNashville.com


"Kathi Burg - Sun In Rain (CD Review)"

Growing up in the state of California, Kathi Burg was influenced by a wide variety of musical tastes, but what comes through the most is her love of folk mixed with a heavy dose of spirituality. For her newest release, Burg mines both of those musical extremes for good cause, putting together a pretty good album as a result.

The first thing you will realize about Burg is that she possesses a strong voice, which comes into full view on songs like "Ordinary" and "Don’t Expect Much," which fuses Gospel with Alternative. Her Amy Grant influence can be heard in the lively "One Of Those Days," and she puts her Praise shoes on tight on cuts like "Tiny Man" and "Real To Me."

The Contemporary Christian scene continues to prosper and thrive with each year, and with every thing that we go through these days…..we need hope. Music like this can provide that hope.
- by Chuck Dauphin at MusicNewsNashville.com


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Kathi Burg has been writing songs for the better part of two decades, and performing throughout Southern California since the late 1990s.

Kathi’s appreciation for music began at a very early age. Having parents with varying musical tastes exposed Kathi to wide a variety of artists and genres. Elton John and Bernie Taupin top her list of those most influential in the area of songwriting, and R&B artist Lou Rawls as a vocalist who would leave a lasting impression.

Although songwriting would eventually become her focus, Kathi's early creativity was nurtured through dance lessons at a local dance academy. A love for the art seemed to evolve naturally when while rehearsing for a performance of The Mexican Hat Dance with her kindergarten class, an inner voice said, "This is what I'm going to do...perform!"

While dance became a passion, writing also began to emerge as a promising avenue of self expression, and Kathi began filling notebooks with pages of poetry. Having a piano in the house made it easy to begin the process of putting lyric to melody.

Kathi's pursuit of dance carried on into college where she majored in Dance Choreography at San Francisco State University. At the same time her interest in songwriting also continued to evolve. She soon discovered rehearsal rooms in the Music department with lone pianos, which offered her a prime opportunity to write. Although her love of dance never faded, the gravitation towards songwriting was strong, and Kathi felt inspired to "say something" through her art.

After a brief college career, Kathi moved back to her hometown of San Diego, California where she met aspiring musician, John Suzano. The two began a collaboration that would last the next several years. The collaboration grew to add bass player Tim Burg, and The Kathi Burg Band was formed.

Over the next several years, the Band would play at popular San Diego venues (Coors Amphitheater, Humphrey's Backstage Lounge), coffeehouses, churches, fairs & festivals, and would record three albums ("The Making of Easy” (2003), "Acoustic Album" (2001), "All Those Things Thought On and Hoped For" (1999)).

The Band received favorable reviews from critics, with Les Reynolds from Indie-Music.com describing Kathi's sound as "as fluid as one gets" and alerting listeners that they would be "reduced to a mere puddle" at the sound of her voice. "Kathi Burg's voice is gorgeous," wrote Amy Lotsberg with CollectedSounds.com, "I could listen to her sing all day."

With the group disbanding in the mid-2000s, Kathi found herself eager to work on a solo project. Over the next few years, she would write a small library of songs, eleven of which would make up her latest album, "Sun In Rain". The record would employ a group of studio musicians, along with recording engineer Alan Sanderson (Rolling Stones, Elton John, Fleetwood Mac, Fiona Apple) and be released on Kathi's own record label, LOF (Leap of Faith) Records.

"Sun In Rain" combines Kathi's folky/soulful lead vocals, rich harmonies, acoustic and electric guitar, keys, drums and percussion, with lyrics that reflect faith, hope, and struggle. The album has been described as a mix of folk and spirituality by Chuck Dauphin at MusicNewsNashville.com, who writes, "Burg mines both of those musical extremes for good cause," and adds, "...with everything that we go through these days...we need hope. Music like this can provide that hope."

Since the release of "Sun In Rain", Kathi has opened for INO recording artist Phil Wickham, shared the bill with artists Severin Browne (Motown), John Batdorf, and Marty Mitchell, and appeared at the popular yearly event, "Spirit West Coast" (Barlow Girl, Jars of Clay). Her songs have aired on internet radio stations such as ElijahStreams, Women of Substance, and Anointed Soundz, and her music has been added to the popular streaming music website, Pandora.

In Fall 2011, Kathi joined the worship ministry at Grace Point church in San Diego and at the same time is continuing to follow her solo pursuits.

Kathi resides in San Diego with her husband of 15 years and their 21 lb Russian Blue mix cat, “Clover”.