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Kathy Grant Mahon

On June 11th and 12th, 2006 Kathy is performing at MAJA Awards in Kingston, Jamaica. Kathy has also been nominated for two awards: Female Artist of the Year and Jamaican International Gospel Artist of the Year.

Kathy Grant Mahon is first and foremost one of Canada's leading Female Gospel artists; she is not only a singer, songwriter, producer and fashion model, but she is also a management consultant, IT project manager, business analyst, publicist, marketing and media relations specialist and freelance gospel journalist.

Kathy has over 20 years experience in the entertainment industry and continues to build an impressive resume with each event and activity. For three years, she wrote articles and conducted artist interviews for Gospelcity.com, one of Gospel music's leading online ezine. She interviewed lengendary artist Andrae Crouch, Bishop Clarence McClendon, Shirley Caesar, BeBe Winans, CeCe Winans and Yolanda Adams.

As a self-managed, self-booked and self-publicized artist, Kathy was successful in guiding her musical career to perform at events with major Gospel and Secular Artists such as Commissioned, Vickie Winans, Carmen, Mary Mary, James Brown, Ray Charles and others. She's headlined for several years at the second largest Blues Festival in North America - Cisco Systems Bluesfest, the Gospel Festival of Repentigny, the Niagara Folk Festival, Ottawa Folk Festival, the Ottawa Tulip Festival and others. Kathy has traveled internationally to speak at music conferences in Toronto; Montreal; Kingston, Jamaica; Gaithersburg and Baltimore, Maryland; and Orlando, Florida. Kathy has also toured internationally with the Harlem Gospel Singers on their European tour.

As an artist she has written and co-produced her projects. Her debut CD containing 19 tracks were all written by Kathy and co-produced by her. The album titled "Free" received nominations from the MAJA Awards organization and was awarded Canadian National Gospel Song 2003 (Rise Above) and 2005 (Ah Lord); She has also been awarded Female Gospel Artist of the Year (2005). She received Best Gospel Album nominations from the Vibe Awards (2004), Canadian Gospel Music Awards (CGMA) (2004) and MAJA Awards (2005); in addition to Best Urban Gospel MAJA Awards (2005), Artist of the Year MAJA Awards (2005) and Album of the Year MAJA Awards (2005).

Kathy closed out 2005 with a series of noteworthy performances. After receiving her Maja Awards (Female Artist of the Year and Song of the Year) in September 2005, Kathy was invited to New York, Los Angeles and Ft. Lauderdale, where she performed for actress Denise Nicholas, former NYC Mayor David Dinkins, Percy Sutton (former owner of the Apollo Theatre), Pierce Sutton (owner of WBLS Radio) and U.S. Congressman Charles Rangle at the Malcolm X family event; Hollywood actors Danny Glover, Michael Beach, Loretta Devine, Cheryl Lee Ralph and others were in attendance at the Black Aids Institute Awards in Los Angeles, where Kathy performed on stage with Gospel great Tata Vega, R&B crooner Tony Terry and jazz great Barbara Mason; Stellar award winning Gospel Diva Dottie Peoples, Vickie Winans and the legendary Andrae Crouch were on hand at the Bobby Jones International Gospel Industry Retreat where, Kathy lit-up the house with her vocal performance and wowed the crowd while walking the runway wearing two fabulous PAN ZAI fashions.

Kathy is now the signature voice and guest model for PAN ZAI, performing musically as well as modeling in PAN ZAI's dynamic fashion shows. She is also in the studio again, recording her second CD.

Fresh from her recent appearance at the First Ladies Summit White House Fashion show held at the Capitol Building in Washington DC, where she modeled for World Famous Designer PAN ZAI, Gospel music's foremost celebrity designer, Kathy will be returning home to celebrate her successful journey in the United States with a Good Friday concert at one of Ottawa Ontario's premiere Blues Nightclubs. This is the 2nd annual Good Friday Gospel Show at Tucsons; last year's show was sold out standing room only. This year Kathy will appear with her new band and there will be door prizes and raffles.

Kathy and her Manager Johnny Blanks (J.B.) are a dynamic duo teaming up for speaking engagements and fashion shows. They cover a variety of topics from "Letting Go to Grow - How to Overcome Your Fears and Live a Successful Life"; "Getting Past Your Past", as well as a multitude of topics on the Entertainment and Gospel Music Industry.

- Kathy Grant Mahon

Unique Voice... Unique Messenger... Eternal Message...

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