Del.icio.usKatrina Elam
Fact Sheet
| Occupation | Singer |
| Musical genre: | Country |
| Birthday | 12 December 1983 (24) |
| Sign | Sagittarius |
| Birthplace | Bray, Oklahoma, USA |
| Official site | http://www.katrinaelam.com/ |
Katrina Elam is an American Country Music Singer signed to Universal South Records. Elam was born in Bray, Oklahoma, a town of 1,035 people. She performed in a 4-H Talent Show at the age of 9. The Oklahoma Country Music Association and the Oklahoma Opry each named Katrina its female vocalist of the year in 1998. The first song she wrote, got the attention of Cris Lacy, the A&R director at Warner-Chappell Music. She subsequently received a publishing contract, she was 16 at the time. She spent so much time in writing sessions that her mother took over her schooling for her senior year.
After she completed her education a year later she moved to Nashville. Lacy helped Katrina Elam secure a contract with Universal South and Tony Brown and Jimmie Lee Sloas produced her self titled album released on October 5, 2004. The first single for this album is the love song "No End in Sight". In January of 2005, Katrina was named the New Now artist by Yahoo! Launchcast. Katrina went on tour with Keith Urban in the latter part of 2004 and is joined him for his "Alive in '05" Tour. News sources in early March 2005 announced Elam's marriage to an unnamed RCA intern which took place on August 2005.
On July 17, 2006 Katrina released her new single "Love Is..."; her new album Turn Me Up will come out on November 2006 or later on January 2007. In addition she will tour with Rascal Flatts to promote the album.