Katie Sketch

Katie Sketch

Katie Sketch (born 1977 as Katie Ritchie) was the founder and band leader of the indie band The Organ. Since its breakup in late 2006, she has concentrated on her modeling career.

Katie Sketch has a new band called Mermaids.

Life

Sketch was born in Canada. As a child, she attended an all-girls school in Vancouver, Canada, where she met Barb Choit, a childhood friend who would later help design the sound of the band in its embryonic stages. The oldest of three kids, Katie focused her attention on sports rather than music during her teens, racing competitively as a skier. "When Shelby and Jenny and Ashley were in high school, they knew all the obscure artists," Sketch admits. "I knew none of them and didn't learn about them until much later. I grew up listening to top 40. I liked U2 and Guns N' Roses." However, by the end of the 1990s, her musical consciousness had begun to transform in ways that would later lead to the formation of her own unique sound. The Organ would go on to be a band Sketch described as "not mainstream by any stretch of the imagination." [Candice Osmond. [http://www.cokemachineglow.com/feature/interview/organ.html An interview with Organ's Katie Sketch] . "CokeMachineGlow.com" Accessed 2008-01-12.]

:"I was forced to do a lot of music by my parents, so I had an early grasp of how music and melody worked at a young age. But I loved Madonna in grade six and I’d pretend I was her. I think everyone goes through something like that".

She sang for a short time in an indie/new wave band called The Ewoks, and was the drummer of another band called Full Sketch, which also included future members of The Organ, Barb Choit and Sarah Efron.

The Organ was formed in 2001 and split up in December 2006. Through their live appearances, Sketch was discovered by the international fashion world and has since been seen in a variety of magazine spreads, including twelve pages in the UK edition of "Vogue", September 2006 issue.

Sketch is known for her enigmatic stage persona, which has been described as androgynous. She is also renowned for being a perfectionist; The Organ's debut album, "Grab That Gun", took several years to produce.

:"We did the recording twice. The first time it was done on a bigger budget and when they money was blown and we wanted to do it again, we had to do it in bits and pieces – the cheapest place here, the cheapest place there, when people have free time. I don’t like doing it that way, actually, because it makes things drawn out and take way longer."

Notes

External links

* [http://www.theorgan.ca The Organ's official webpage]
* [http://www.myspace.com/theorgan The Organ's official MySpace page]
* [http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=Grab%20That%20Gun Review of "Grab That Gun"]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8trKYzgQF0&mode=related&search= Video of The Organ]
* [http://youtube.com/watch?v=7JDYBGKEIWg Video of new band Mermaids]


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