Imerge Magazine dec 2013 | Page 28

midnight visiting people be- one wedding a man from a cause people did not want to recording company handed let us leave once we showed her a card, told her she up to sing for them. could be famous and he was They say that things happen for a reason and maybe this happened for a reason because this is when Kathy started writing plays and cantatas. She wrote her first Cantata in 1975, it was called “Behold the Man”, the man to make it happen and offered her a recording contract, but she did not want to do the album without my uncle, her younger brother, who was not ready to do it at the time so she chose to wait. she wrote the Drama and It was not long before she Music for Poydras Assembly was invited to sing in the of God Church. From that Gospel Tent at the New Or- point on she wrote one, two leans Jazz Festival. The and sometimes three canta- church pastor at the time tas a year for the youth to agreed to let her go as long perform. She wrote a lot as she went with the church of music, especially songs choir to accompany her per- for people’s weddings. At formance. She sang His Eye