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Katie Wills Music

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Katie is an experienced and versatile vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, vocal and piano tutor, session vocalist, singer-songwriter.
Singer (soprano)
Glasgow
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“Katie is a professional and versatile vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter with multitudes of performing experience whether as a soloist or as part of a band. She has been part of several bands including previous college bands, her High School Senior Wind, Jazz and Brass band of which she played trumpet but also had the opportunity to sing as a soloist and with the Jazz Band. She has performed as a soloist, in bands and in choirs, in many concerts, solo gigs, college gigs, care homes, primary schools/toddler groups, events and venues including George Square, the Old Fruitmarket, Paris and for Lord Sebastian Coe at a sports event as well as multiple venues all over Scotland. Playing with these bands also gave Katie the opportunity to compete in prestigious competitions, often winning Platinum, Gold and Silver awards as well as jazz awards. She is completely versatile in what genres she can sing and can adapt to any given genre and to give a clearer insight, she is able to sing genres such as; Jazz, Pop, Rock, Musical Theatre, Blues, Motown, Singer Songwriter, Folk, Soul, Classical, Heavy Rock, Contemporary Christian Music, Scat including Jazz Standard etc! Vocally wise, she has a highly skilled technical vocal ability in terms of vocal gymnastics, harmonies, melisma and improvisation. She is “Katie is a professional and versatile vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter with multitudes of performing experience whether as a soloist or as part of a band. She has been part of several bands including previous college bands, her High School Senior Wind, Jazz and Brass band of which she played trumpet but also had the opportunity to sing as a soloist and with the Jazz Band. She has performed as a soloist, in bands and in choirs, in many concerts, solo gigs, college gigs, care homes, primary schools/toddler groups, events and venues including George Square, the Old Fruitmarket, Paris and for Lord Sebastian Coe at a sports event as well as multiple venues all over Scotland. Playing with these bands also gave Katie the opportunity to compete in prestigious competitions, often winning Platinum, Gold and Silver awards as well as jazz awards. She is completely versatile in what genres she can sing and can adapt to any given genre and to give a clearer insight, she is able to sing genres such as; Jazz, Pop, Rock, Musical Theatre, Blues, Motown, Singer Songwriter, Folk, Soul, Classical, Heavy Rock, Contemporary Christian Music, Scat including Jazz Standard etc! Vocally wise, she has a highly skilled technical vocal ability in terms of vocal gymnastics, harmonies, melisma and improvisation. She is able to incorporate many different elements of vocal stylings and can improv on cue. She has a deep knowledge and understanding of the voice and how it works as well as vocal techniques and theory. She has had a year's training in Musical Theatre including Estill training and has been in musicals and pantos! She has even led her own Youth Worship Band, working alongside the youth in the youth group as well as volunteering in youth lunch groups in high schools and performing in a Church Worship Band! She has a wide range of skills and knowledge in Music Theory, Music Business, Music History, Song Writing, Performance, Composition, Entrepreneurship, Logic Pro X and has built up a wide, versatile and lengthy repertoire. She also tends to create arrangements for her own take on a song. She can sight read very well and can learn pieces quickly if needs be. She can also accompany herself on the piano and guitar when singing. She works very closely with harmonies and has a good ear for harmonising and improvising with scales/keys etc and when singing with other vocalists. She has also been part of several recording/session/online collaborative projects involving other collaborators including having recorded vox for library music and TV ads. She has studied a HNC in Musical Theatre at Motherwell College, HNC-HND Music at the Academy of Music and Sound Glasgow and is planning to go back to university to finish her degree. She has experience of teaching students of all ages and levels of experience as a private tutor and with InTune Music. Katie has also taught at Gymboree Play and Music as an Early Years Development teacher using music and imaginative play. She is also a bank vocal and piano tutor for CultureNL teaching group keybaord classes as well is a vocal and piano tutor with Riverside Music College and a cover tutor with Rookie Rockstars. She is currently also working alongside Nu Moves Dance Studio with their Chorus Classes which may be featuring as a Music Academy in the New Year. She has also volunteered at the Shaw Trust in Edinburgh, delivering song writing workshops as part of their well-being programme. As well as this, she’s currently the lead vocalist and pianist for newly established Glasgow based function band, Rough Diamond and is also half of the duo Artax, writing vocals/lyrics and recording for an album which is due to be released in May. She has just finished working on a project with an artist who is releasing an album worldwide of which she has recorded vocals for. Lastly, she is also a musician with Genre Music as a resident solo vocalist/pianist with regular gigs, she has also been involved in a few more recording collaborations so far and had organised a successful gig for SAMH raising almost over £200. Katie has also recently been awarded funding through YoungScot’s Time to Shine Nurturing Fund, of which she is using to record her EP, music video and hold an EP launch too. She has also been selected to take part in an international artist residency in Cuba of which she will be spending two months working alongside the community music and cultural organisations. Describing herself as a modern-day Stevie Nicks with a little bit of Lzzy Hale, Taylor Momsen, Norah Jones, Adele and Stevie Wonder thrown in the mix, Katie considers herself to be very versatile and experienced in performing and vocals and pride herself on her friendly nature and professionalism. She always takes a professional approach to everything she does and absolutely loves and is incredibly passionate about music and is eager to share that enthusiasm with everybody else out there!”

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Genres:
Jazz, Acoustic, Pop, Covers, Soul, Motown, Funk rock, Funk, Rock, Glam rock, Hard rock, Heavy metal, Pop rock, Classic rock, Power rock, Blues, Classical, Musical theatre, Film / TV music, Contemporary classical, Contemporary Christian, Easy listening, Light music
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Event types:
Wedding, Wedding proposal, Funeral / Memorial service, Church service, Hotel / Restaurant event, Private event, Corporate event, Charity event, Recording session, Cruise
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Other skills:
Lyricist, Songwriter, Actor, Dancer, Fluent sight-reader, Instrumental teaching, Theory teaching, Singing teaching, Ableton Live, Live looping, Perfect pitch, Accompanist
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Katie's Song list

NOTE-Some of these songs are performed with my function band Rough Diamond as well as performing them solo. Most can also be performed as a duo and/or with backing tracks. Will note which ones I sing with my band too.
Slow Tempo/Stripped Back;
Chasing Pavements-Adele
Make You Feel My Love-Adele
Rolling in the Deep-Adele
Set Fire to the Rain-Adele
Skyfall-Adele
When We Were Young-Adele
Valerie-Amy Winehouse (can also sing with an upbeat backing track)
Natural Woman-Aretha Franklin
Almost is Never Enough-Arianna Grande
Me and Mrs Jones-Billy Paul
Hotel California-Eagles
Summertime-Ella Fitzgerald
Yours-Ella Henderson
Can’t Help Falling in Love-Elvis Presley
At Last-Etta James
I’d Rather Go Blind-Etta James
Sweet Dreams are Made of These-Eurythmics *
Somewhere Over the Rainbow-Eva Cassidy version
Landslide-Fleetwood Mac
Rhiannon-Fleetwood Mac
Everlong-Foo Fighters *
My Funny Valentine-Frank Sinatra
Power of Love-Gabrielle Aplin version
Someone You Loved-Lewis Capaldi
What a Wonderful World-Louis Armstrong
Simple Man-Lynyrd Skynyrd
Don’t Know Why-Norah Jones
Last Request-Paolo Nutini
Diamonds-Rihanna
How Will I Know-Sam Smith version
Chandelier-Sia
You’re Still the One-Shania Twain
Every Breath You Take-Sting and The Police (sung with Rough Diamond/backing track) *
Georgia-Vance Joy
Mid Tempo;
Rolling in the Deep-Adele
God is a Woman-Arianna Grande *
Too Close-Alex Clare (sung with backing track)
Twist and Shout-The Beatles (sung with Rough Diamond/backing track)*
All the Good Girls Go to Hell-Billie Eilish
Bad Guy-Billie Eilish0
Bellyache-Billie Eilish
Could You Be Loved-Bob Marley
Wanted Dead or Alive-Bon Jovi *
Mustang Sally-The Commitments
Wicked Game-Chris Isaak *
The Slosh/Beautiful Sunday-Daniel Boon (sung with Rough Diamond/backing track) *
Hotel California-Eagles
Exes and Ohs-Elle King
Waitress Song-First Aid Kit
The Chain-Fleetwood Mac *
Dreams-Fleetwood Mac *
Jukebox Hero-Foreigner (sung with backing track)
Fly Me To The Moon-Michael Buble
Crazy-Gnarls Barkley *
Sweet Child O Mine-Guns N Roses
Don’t Stop Believing-Journey *
Islands in the Stream-Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton (sung only with Rough Diamond) *
Never Too Much-Luther Vandross *
The Fear-Lily Allen
Smile-Lily Allen
I Heard it Through the Grapevine-Marvin Gaye
Nothing Breaks Like a Heart-Miley Cyrus and Mark Ronson
Feeling Good-Nina Simone*
Fever-Peggy Lee
Kiss from a Rose-Seal *
My Girl-The Temptations (sung with Rough Diamond/backing track) *
Brown Eyed Girl-Van Morrison (sung with Rough Diamond/backing track) *
Fast Tempo/Upbeat;
Crazy Little Thing Called Love-Queen *
Dancing Queen-ABBA
Waterloo-ABBA
House of the Rising Sun-The Animals *
Respect-Aretha Franklin *
Cochise-Audioslave (sung with Rough Diamond/backing track) *
Girlfriend-Avril Lavigne (sung with Rough Diamond/backing track) *
SK8R Boi-Avril Lavigne (sung with Rough Diamond/backing track) *
Crazy in Love-Beyonce (sung with Rough Diamond/backing track) *
Toxic-Britney Spears *
I Gotta Feeling-Black Eyed Peas (sung with Rough Diamond/backing track) *
Uptown Funk-Bruno Mars *
Year 3000-Busted (sung only with Rough Diamond) *
Havana-Camilla Cabello
Closer-The Chainsmokers and Halsey
Ain’t Nobody-Chaka Khan *
Call Me Maybe-Carly Rae Jepsen (sung with Rough Diamond/backing track) *
Get Lucky-Daft Punk *
I Believe in a Thing Called Love-The Darkness (sung with Rough Diamond/backing track) *
Don’t Start-Dua Lipa *
New Rules-Dua Lipa
Respect-Erasure (sung with Rough Diamond/backing track) *
American Boy-Estelle (sung with Rough Diamond/backing track)
Chelsea Dagger-The Fratellis (sung with Rough Diamond/backing track)*
Faith-George Michael * (sung with Rough Diamond/backing track)
You Make my Dreams-Hall and Oates *
Superstar-Jamelia
Don’t Stop Believing-Journey
Sex on Fire-Kings of Leon (sung with Rough Diamond/backing track) *
Suddenly I See-KT Tunstall *
Juice-Lizzo (sung with Rough Diamond/backing track) *
Moves Like Jagger-Maroon 5 (sung with Rough Diamond/backing track)*
Five Colours in Her Hair-McFly (sung with Rough Diamond/backing track) *
Beat It-Michael Jackson * (sung with Rough Diamond/backing track)
I’m a Believer-The Monkees (sung with Rough Diamond/backing track)*
Unwritten-Natasha Bedingfield
Sweet Caroline-Neil Diamond
Don’t Look Back in Anger-Oasis *
New Shoes-Paolo Nutini
Pencil Full of Lead-Paolo Nutini (sung with Rough Diamond/backing track) *
Kiss-Prince (sung only with Rough Diamond/backing track)
Hit the Road Jack-Ray Charles
Man, I Feel Like a Woman-Shania Twain
That Don’t Impress Me Much-Shania Twain
Master Blaster-Stevie Wonder
Superstition-Stevie Wonder *
In Too Deep-Sum 41 * (sung with Rough Diamond/backing track)
Proud Mary-Tina Turner (sung with Rough Diamond/backing track)
Red, Red Wine-UB40 (sung with Rough Diamond/backing track) *
Play That Funky Music-Wild Cherry (sung with Rough Diamond/backing track) *
Disney/Musical Theatre/Classical Songs;
Colours of the Wind-Pochahontas
Part of Your World-The Little Mermaid
How Far I'll Go-Moana
Let It Go-Frozen
Beauty and the Beast-Beauty and the Beast
I See the Light-Tangled
Someone Like You-Jekyll and Hyde
For Good and Defying Gravity-Wicked
I Don't Know How To Love Him and Heaven On Their Minds-Jesus Christ Superstar
Think of Me-Phantom of the Opera
With You-Ghost
On My Own-Les Miserables
Maybe-Annie
Memory-Cats
Tonight-West Side Story
Time To Say Goodbye
Weep You No More
Customer questions

What do your clients love most about your performances?

Most clients have loved the stripped back and relaxing feel particularly during the ceremony before, during and after and the drinks reception. They also really enjoyed the contrast between a slower, stripped back and acoustic set with a more upbeat and fun set.

Which venues have you performed at in the past?

Stereo Audio The Classic Grand The Old Fruitmarket George Square Ivory Blacks The Hug and Pint The Space The Redstones Hotel 55 Bar and Grill Box Glasgow University Union The Salmon Leap Pollokshields Burgh Hall Paris Birmingham Conservatoire Park Bar Wild Cabaret

Which artists have you been most influenced by?

I have been influenced by many artists including but not limited to Fleetwood Mac, Queen, ABBA, Stevie Wonder, Adele, Norah Jones, Ludovico Einaudi, Ben Howard, Alice in Chains, Atreyu, Audioslave, Thrice, Bring Me the Horizon, The Pretty Reckless, Halestorm, Billie Eilish, CHVRCHES, The Civil Wars, Kodaline, Dua Lipa, Ariana Grande, Royal Blood, Tom Odell.

What is the most high profile gig you've performed?

I have performed at many many gigs over the years but the most high profile gig I have performed at was as part of my old jazz band for a sports event for Lord Sebastian Coe. We played as people walked in the door, background music essentially.

What if my timings change after I've booked you?

That is not a problem, things can and do change. All I ask is that you please do let me know as soon in advance as possible in the event I need to make any changes etc.

Can you provide an iPod/DJ service before and between your sets?

I can provide a Spotify playlist upon request. I can provide this for free if the venue doesn't already play music themselves.

How much time do you need to set up?

It usually takes me around 45 minutes-1hr to set up but I usually like to take a full hour to ensure everything is ready to go and the sound is perfect for your event. As soon as I'm set up, I can provide a Spotify playlist for background music until it's time for myself to play.

Can I pick the pieces you play from the set list?

If that is something you would be interested in, I am of course happy to have a chat. I craft my set lists based on what I feel is perfect for your event and feedback from guests from previous performances. But please do let me know if this is something you would like to have a chat about!

Do you bring all the equipment you need to perform?

Absolutely, I have all my own gear but will always double check with the venue in the event they have their own gear too.

Can you learn specific pieces before the event?

If you would like specific songs for your event, that is absolutely no issue. All I would ask is that you request these songs well in advance so it gives me enough time to learn and prepare these requested songs. There is a fee of £15 for any extra/requested songs to take into account rehearsal times etc.

Katie's Prices

Note: prices may vary based on travel distance. For an exact quote, click “Check availability”.

Standard Prices
Performance durationPrice
Short performance (up to 15 min)£37.50
Up to 1 hour£162.50
Up to 2 hours£250
Up to 3 hours£375
Packages
Wedding ceremony
This includes music before the service begins, music during the signing of the register, and music as guests leave.
£175
Drinks reception
Two performances of up to 45 mins each during your drinks reception
£200
Wedding ceremony + Drinks reception + Dinner
- Music before the service begins, music during the signing of the register, and music as guests leave. - 2 x 45 min performances at the drinks reception. - 2 x 45 min performances as dinner is being served.
£400

Add-ons

Skype Consultation and 3 New Songs Learned
+£25
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From Encore customers:

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Darren C
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5 out of 5

Katie sang at our wedding ceremony & drinks ceremony and she was amazing! She set the party vibe for the rest of the evening! We couldn’t recommend her highly enough!

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Tom P
5 years ago

"Top class professional with excellent attention to detail and no ego."

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Stewart H
4 years ago

"Katie has been professional and easy to deal with delivering great vocals onto my originals in a variety of styles . Srong lead but also nice layers. She has been a great discovery and I'm very pleased with the results. I'm.hoping to continue working with her for a long time."

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