Kate Yanai

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Summary: Kate Markowitz (also known as Kate Yanai) is an American singer/songwriter born in Los Angeles, California. She is perhaps best known as a back-up vocalist who has recorded and performed with a number of singers, most notably James Taylor but also Shawn Colvin, Don Henley, Billy Joel, k.d. lang, and many more. Back in the 1990's Kate Markowitz had a platinum-selling single in Germany. Originally, the song was recorded as a Bacardi Rum jingle for the European market. It was so popular that she was asked to transform it into a song about summer love rather than rum. She co-wrote the lyrics and recorded it (with Arnold McCuller and Valerie Carter on backing vocals) under the pseudonym Kate Yanai. Called Summer Dreaming (The Bacardi Song) it went to Number 1 within two weeks in Germany, where it stayed for seven weeks, selling well over 500,000 copies. Recent activities: Markowitz continued to work with a number of artists. In 2003 she produced her first album, called Map of the World, on which she wrote or co-wrote a number of the songs. More information is available at her homepage: http://www.katemarkowitz.com/ User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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RTL Ultimative Chart Show

Bacardi Feeling

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1991 - Canna-Power-Top 100

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Die Hit Giganten-Sommerhits

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30 Jahre deutsche SingleCharts - Top 1000

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Hits - 1991 - From a Funky House Perspective

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Bacardi Feeling [Single]

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Summer Dreamin' / Summer Dreamin' (Instrumental) - Single

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Fetenhits - The Real Summer Classics

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Canna-Power Charts 1991

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Die Ultimative Chart Show-Die Erfolgreichsten Werbe Hits

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die Hitgiganten

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